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| Author: | bobyar2001 [ Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | National Coal Board 67 |
Is this 0-6-2T in the 1962 photo the same as the one described below? http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?m ... b_1962.jpg No 67 0-6-2T Built by Taff Vale Railway at Cardiff West Yard Works No 306. T V R Loco No 85, later G W R No 450. Withdrawn from service in 1926. Bought by Longmoor military Railway renumbered No 205 later No 70205. Purchased by National Coal Board ( Durham Area ) in 1948. Normally worked at South Hetton as Loco No 67. Now on the Dean Forest Railway. |
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| Author: | Gavin Hamilton [ Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: National Coal Board 67 |
Best answer I can give is "probably". "Gordon", as in General Gordon (of Khartoum) is a military locomotive name and the profile of the loco in the picture is that of a generic South Wales 0-6-2T. |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: National Coal Board 67 |
According to the preponderance of evidence at this site, I'll say "yes" as well: http://www.deanforestrailway.co.uk/loco_tvr28.html It spent many years at Caerphilly, which actually was the one to get it steaming again. It is, according to my books, the only surviving Welsh-built standard-gauge steam locomotive (maybe any locomotive) and may technically belong to the National Museum of Wales, unless they somehow swapped it over to the National Railway Museum-York. This "Gordon" is not to be confused with the 2-10-0 600 Gordon at the Severn Valley Railway (last I heard/remembered), ex-War Department and Longmoor Military Railway. |
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