Shelf Island

If anyone has a photo showing the top of one of the South Wales engines this would be ever so useful to me ... it would let me see the arrangement of the exhaust and any additional details on the top of the bonnet - the Life Like model includes parts for extra walkways.

 

- Richard.

I thought 802 was the one that ended up at Wallingford station and sold for scrap by its owner a couple of years ago.

On 19/03/2019 at 09:11, RJS1977 said:

I thought 802 was the one that ended up at Wallingford station and sold for scrap by its owner a couple of years ago.

 

These are my notes, compiled from bits and pieces I have found online, plus inputs from other members of the RMweb:

• 802 was retired from service in 1982 and provided spare parts to keep the others running until 1985. The engine was cut in 1986.
• 801 was purchased for preservation, repainted in Union Pacific livery and renumbered ‘805’, and displayed at a roadside diner in Oswestry. By 2017, the engine was being restored at Overton at the Nene Valley railway.
• 803 was stored at Wallingford on the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway, and cut there during 2016.
• 804 was donated to Railworld,
• 805 is unconfirmed, but possibly cut at Port Talbot in 1986.

I'm happy to change these of course. A photo of 802 or 803 would help.

Edited March 28, 2019 by 47137

On 19/03/2019 at 09:11, RJS1977 said:

I thought 802 was the one that ended up at Wallingford station and sold for scrap by its owner a couple of years ago.

 

19 minutes ago, ianofsklr said:

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803 at Wallingford is reported to have been cut up. I look into the Alcos from time to time and I think I had learned of this via a thread on RMWeb but I cannot find it. 

 

 

It does look as though 803 was the engine at Wallingford.

 

Ian - thank you for your notes, I have updated my own comment (above) to suit. I still wonder where 805 went, but I could always make my model number 806. This would sort out any historical nuances.

19 hours ago, ianofsklr said:

Here is my Alco with buffers and resprayed. 

Very nice. When my model arrived it was in a very matt black and I could hardly see any of the details. Yours looks a whole lot better in a slightly glossy black.