Steam returns to the Hill
by Gordon James
Title
Steam returns to the Hill
Artist
Gordon James
Medium
Photograph - Photography Digital
Description
Peckett and Sons 0-4-0ST No. 2130. Built in 1951. Operational, returned to steam in 2016 at the Battlefield Line Railway and moved to NIRT in 2020.
This is one of a pair of class W7 locomotives built by Peckett & Sons in 1951 for CWS Soap Works near Irlam. Both Works no 2130 and 2131 have been preserved.
After the line at Irlam closed in 1966 2130 and 2131 were sold to work at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham where they became Dunlop No 6 and No 7.
Both locomotives worked at Fort Dunlop until they were disposed of in 1971 when they were bought by Mr A Hunt for preservation and moved to his mineral water factory at Hinckley for storage.
2130 then moved to the Battlefield Line at Shackerstone in December 1974. It was returned to steam there in January 2016 and in early 2018 it moved to the Northampton & Lamport Railway.
In the summer of 2020 the locomotive Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway where it had an overhaul and was returned to public service in September of 2021.
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September 29th, 2021
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