0-4-0DE no.211, Workington Docks, 2003.

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0-4-0DE no.211, Workington Docks, 2003.
0-4-0DE no.211, Workington Docks, 2003.

The port of Workington is owned by Cumbria Country Council but a former British Steel loco, 0-4-0DE no.211 (YE 2628/1956) is seen shunting internal user wagons belonging to the steelworks on the docks internal railway. There was a line across the River Derwent within the port that connected the steel mill internal railway to the docks network via Derwent Howe Exchange Sidings.
Locomotive no.211 was new in 1956 to the Workington Harbour & Dock Co. which was later a subsidiary of the British Steel Corporation until they sold out to Cumbria Country Council in April 1975. With the cessation of rail manufacture at Workington in 2006 the dock railway lost something like 80% of its work overnight. The rail welding plant at the steelworks lasted a while longer to October 2009 and for a period rails were offloaded from boats loaded in France. When that ceased the docks railway had no regular work and the loco fleet effectively became surplus. Cumbria CC had more locos than were needed even if some future rail traffic returned so the older two of the four were put up for sale. No.211 was sold to the Caledonian Railway (Brechin) in 2013.

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Taken on: March 5, 2003
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