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27: 140: 124: 304:. The valve gear was fitted with new eccentrics and repinned and bushed. It appears that at some point in the locomotive's past the wear had been compensated for by sawing part of the lap from the slide valves and filling in notches in the reversing quadrant near mid-gear. After repair the engine returned to 209:
in 1919 (works number 1641), and was one of three identical engines built for Hickmanas at Sydenham ironstone quarries, near Banbury in Oxfordshire. The quarries were closed in 1925 following the takeover by Stewarts & Lloyds Minerals in April 1925, and the three engines (named after Hickmans
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was moved to the Burton Green & District Light Railway near Kenilworth in Warwickshire, where she was returned to steam in 1962. By 1965, the site at Burton Green was for sale, and the railway was closed. In 1966,
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was temporarily withdrawn from service at the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway, at which point she received a new all-welded boiler from Bennett Boiler and a full bottom end overhaul at
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and outside frames. The design originated from a requirement for the War Department for a series of similar 0-6-0 locomotives, of which a total of only 16 were built.
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returned to service in Summer 2017 after another overhaul. In 2019 it was joined at Leighton Buzzard by its sister locomotive, Gertrude.
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daughters) were transferred to Bilston steelworks, near Wolverhampton. The other two engines were
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In 1960, after some negotiations through the avid steam preservationist, Max Sinclair,
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worked at Bilston until they were withdrawn from service in 1959, but
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museum. However, the Nursery Railway at Bressingham was laid to the
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and was in regular use from 2004 until the boiler tubes wore out.
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Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway

Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway
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steam locomotive
Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway
Bedfordshire
Andrew Barclay Sons & Co.
Bressingham Steam and Gardens
Penrhyn Quarry Railway
Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
Alan Keef Ltd
LBNGR
Stephenson valve gear
"Steam locomotive Gertrude arrives at the Leighton Buzzard Railway"
"Steam locomotive Gertrude leaves the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway"
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