Peckett 2000

Peckett 0-6-0ST 2000/1942.

One of the maker’s B3 class with two outside cylinders 14” diameter x 20” stroke.

Delivered new to British Sugar Corporation Ltd., Nottingham Factory, Colwick, working here until 1955 when sent back to its Bristol manufacturers for repair. On completion of the repair work the loco was dispatched to the Ipswich factory of the BSC, remaining there until entering preservation, initially at the Nene Valley Railway, Peterborough in 1977.Nowadays Peckett 2000 is more usually found at its new home at Barrow Hill, near Chesterfield but sometimes hired out to other railways.

It is expected this well-proportioned loco will remain at Chasewater for about 3 months.

Wimblebury

Photo from staffspasttrack, taken at Cannock Wood.

A Hunslet 0-6-0ST Austerity class, 3839/1956

Built by Hunslet of Leeds, Wimblebury was delivered new to the National Coal Board at Cannock Wood Colliery near Hednesford in Staffordshire, and worked there until withdrawn in the early 1970s.  Originally earmarked for spares for another engine, Wimblebury was purchased privately for preservation and moved to the Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire on 26th September 1973. 

This is the second visit to Chasewater by this popular engine in recent years.

Taffy

Photo: Alisdair Chisholm

The first steam loco to visit the Chasewater Railway Narrow Gauge.

 Taffy is an 0-4-0VBT VC engine, a reproduction De Winton,  30/1990, built by the Alan Keef Ltd.  company in Ross-on-Wye.

The Limited Company was formed in 1975 at Cote, Bampton, Oxon, continuing what Alan Keef had already been doing for some years as an individual.  In 1986 the company moved to larger premises at Lea Line, Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.