'Hulk'leaves scrapyard and heads for West Somerset

摘要

Minehead's fleet of in-house locomotives has been boosted with the purchase of Large Prairie tank No. 4110. The West Somerset Railway (plc) acquisition is part of a strategy to become less reliant on short-term, hired-in locomotives. The Barry hulk has been in the ownership of Southall Railway Centre since 1979, but has not undergone any notable restoration in that time. Latterly, it has been stowed on one of the turntable roads at Tyseley, but changed hands after months of negotiations for an undisclosed sum. The money will be used by the West London society to complete the prolonged overhaul of its pannier tank No. 9682.