Swanscombe Steam Locomotive Wood Print

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Swanscombe Steam Locomotive at the Buckinghamshire Railway in England.

This is the oldest surviving Andrew Barclay locomotive in the United Kingdom. Swanscombe was delivered to the Northfleet Coal and Ballast Co., Kent, in 1891 where it joined an earlier Barclay and an old Henry Hughes saddle tank, all three eventually being transferred to new quarries and wharves at West Thurrock in Essex. These had been opened in 1912-13, and in 1921 became the property of the Thurrock Chalk and Whiting Company, a subsidiary of Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers, which is now part of the Blue Circle Group.
With the increasing loads dealt with on the railway, Swanscombe was unsuitable for the heavier work which involved running from the chalk quarry to a quay on the Thames, heavily graded all the way. The engines latter years were therefore confined to shunting “Presflo” wagons at the wharves and not used on trips to the firm’s chalk quarry. Swanscombe received a new boiler in 19...

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