45669 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Morning All, A bit off topic, I know, but knowing the amount of expert knowledge within this group I thought that someone might be able to identify this narrow gauge locomotive and say where it is now : http://railwayphotog...om/pictures/854 Any ideas anyone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGH Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 From the Industrial Railway Society's Herts & Middlesex Handbook, this is 99 3461 an 0-8-0 built by Vulcan, Stettiner Maschinenbau AG of Stettin, Germany in 1925 which arrived at the Knebworth West Park & Winter Green Railway in June 1976 from the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway (where it had been stored only). It left Knebworth in May 1978 for the C.F.Froissy-Cappy-Dompierre, Amiens, France. I'm not sure of its previous history before 1976, but a sister loco 99 3462 (built by Oreinstein & Koppel) was stored on the Festiniog Railway between 1972 and 1978, after which it returned to Germany. Presumably both were originally imported from Germany. I think the loco behind 99 3461 is the Bagnall 4-4-0T ISIBUTU. I hope this helps Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45669 Posted August 17, 2012 Author Share Posted August 17, 2012 Yes, thanks very much. Helps very much indeed. The mystery loco is a mystery no more! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Just to add a bit more background, the loco was built as Vulcan-Werke (3852 of 1923*) for the Mecklenberger Pomeranische Schmalspurbahn (their no. 9), being renumbered as DR 99 3461 in 1949. A German list (Jens Merte) shows the loco first sold to Vale of Rheidol (between 1969 and 1970, but not supported by the Industrial Railway Society's "EL1"). The "sister" loco (O&K 12518/1934), which became DR 99 3462 is to be found on the Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth, Güterloh as "MECKLENBERG" no. 12: http://www.dampfkleinbahn.de/fahrzeuge/lok_12_mecklenburg/index.html (Again, German sources indicate the loco was sold to Vale of Rheidol Equipment Ltd in the early 'seventies, thence to the Ffestiniog). *Some sources give 1925. Interestingly, the preceding loco in the works list - 3851 - is the 0-8-0T 53Mh preserved operationally on the Rugenische Kleinbahn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGH Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 From memory, the Vale of Rheidol Equipment Ltd. was formed by a group with ambitions to acquire the VoR from BR, instead of course it was sold to Hills & Rampton. I don't think the loco actually went to the VoR, instead it went to the Festiniog probably only for storage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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