8F Steam Locomotive 48624
by Gordon James
Title
8F Steam Locomotive 48624
Artist
Gordon James
Medium
Photograph - Photography Digital
Description
48624 is unique in 8F preservation in that it is the only surviving Southern Railway built example, being part of a Railway Executive Committee order completed in 1943 at Ashford Works. The locomotive spent its entire working life allocated to Willesden Shed and is not thought to have led to harsh a life, evidenced by the lack of the normal main frame repair around the Main Driving Wheel seen on almost all other preserved 8F’s, although the locomotive’s steel tyres are very close to requiring replacement. The locomotive was withdrawal from traffic in July 1965 with a suspected fractured internal main steam pipe.
It was then sold to Woodham Brotheres and entered the scrapyard in Barry in October 1965 and stayed there until July 1981
After 28 years of hard work (virtually all of which was carried out in the open air) by dedicated volunteers, (there are Brass plaques on the Smokebox Saddle to commemorate all the people who worked on the restoration) the locomotive returned to traffic in May 2009 at Peak Rail, before arriving at the Great Central Railway in March 2011.
For a number of years it was painted in a fictional British Rail Crimson livery which was the source of much controversy with rail enthusiasts.
It was withdrawn from service in July 2019 when the boiler certificate expired.
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December 29th, 2022
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