Peckett 1370


Peckett 1370

Beamish museum aren't running trains at their Rowley station site this year so Peckett 1370 "May", which normally operates these trains, has been moved across to the colliery railway. It was built in 1915 and is an R2 class 0-4-0ST. It worked at Yates Duxbury & Sons papermill at Heap Bridge in Bury, Lancashire along with 2 other locomotives. Peckett "Annie" now preserved at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre and an Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST also named "Annie". 


1370 had been relegated to spare loco by the 1970s and was eventually sold into preservation first moving to Wigan with Bryn Engineering. It later moved to the East Lancashire Railway with its current owners the Jubilee Locomotive Company who Beamish hire her off.


The above shot shows 1370 doing what it usually does at the museum, hauling passenger trains from the rebuilt Rowley station along the short passenger line they have. The below video captures the Yates Duxbury & Son's system towards the end of the use of steam engines in the early 1970s.



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