Brecon Mountain Railway Locomotive. - a photo on Flickriver

             Loco was built by Baldwin of Philadelphia in the USA in 1930. It spent its working life 
hauling limestone near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. In 1974 it ran away driver-less 
and after travelling a few miles it left the track and was wrecked. It was treated as an accident and written-off by the South African insurers and was purchased by Brecon mountain tourism dept. as salvage. It was shipped back as deck cargo to Liverpool and put into store. It is a 4-6-2 tender locomotive weighing 47 tons. Brecon tourism started rebuilding this locomotive in 1990 and it finally entered traffic in 1997. The rebuild was extensive as the loco. had suffered severe damage in the accident in South Africa. After 10 years its burning oil system and mechanism is  converted back to burning coal, because Wales having somany coallieries. They gave it a complete rebuild and it entered into mountain tourism traffic and since then it has accumulated over 85,000 miles on this railway. 
   

Taken in: United Kingdom / Wales / Brecon (show map)

Taken on: June 26, 2010

Stats: 1,460 views / 25 comments

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