3007 Firefly and 3292 John Terence - a photo on Flickriver

            Eastleigh Lakeside Railway on 16th June 2018 with 3007 "Firefly" built by Herbert Bullock in 1936 and 3292 "John Terence" awaiting their next turn around the 10¼" gauge track. 

Firefly is based on Kerrs Miniature Railway, Arbroath, Scotland and was visiting the Lakeside Railway for the Herbert Bullock locomotives event held over the weekend of 16th - 17th June 2018.

3292 is a "look-alike" Great Northern C1 4-4-2. The C1 class was built between 1902 and 1910. 17 locomotives of this class survived to become British Railways stock in 1948. There were two "odd" examples which were built as compound experiments and these were early withdrawals. 3292 was one of them: it was withdrawn in 1927. The other was 4300 withdrawn in 1924. All of the rest would have been numbered into the 2800-2891 series and later into the British Railways 62800-62891 series except that only 17 survived into nationalisation and only 62822 and 62885 actually carried a British Railway's number.

John Terence was built in 1908 and is now based at the Ingfield Light Railway. This (abbreviated) history is taken from the ILR website:

John Terence was buit in 1908 by Mr J A Holder's engineer, Grimshaw, with 14" driving wheels and cylinders 2" bore by 4 1/4" stroke. It started life on the Broome Railway in Worcestershire. In the 1930's it was moved to the Keeping railway, Beaulieu. Here it underwent an overhaul of new piston valve cylinders and outside Walschearts valve gear which gave the engine a lot more power. Later the cab was changed, frames extended and a bogie replaced the rear truck giving the engine a unique 4-4-4 wheel arrangement. After the war the engine left Keeping and was purchased by Charles Lane. It ran at the Royal Anchor Hotel at Liphook, Hants. Due to the railway then being reguaged, the engine was sold to Mr John Fowles from Hayling Island who was planning a railway there. However the railway never got built so John Terence was sold again to Mr John Plumpton who took it to the Queen Mary's Hospital railway at Carshalton where it ran for several years before being transferred to Ingfield Railway. It was then sold to Barry Metcalf and was later sold to Chris Knibbs. John Terence was then kept at Birchley Railway in Kent, owned by Drummond Randell for many years where it was regularly steamed throughout the summer, before returning to Ingfield railway approximately 4 years later. In 2008 it celebrated its centenary. After it was returned to Ingfield the locomotive needed an overhaul. The main requirement was to replace the smoke box and cladding which was life expired and had holes in it. The locomotive was sent to Joe Nemeth Engineering at Easter Compton for the work to be carried out. This necessitated the boiler to be lifted from the frames. It was then found that the rear section of the frames was severely wasted and required replacing. After much contemplation the decision was taken to convert the engine back to an Atlantic. Care was taken to research the earlier incarnations of the engine and it was found that the engine had been made wider when it was converted to a 4-4-4. A compromise was reached and new rear frames and smoke box were built by Dan Nemeth and a new cab cladding and running plates were made by Joe. The locomotive was then repainted in LNER green and then returned to the railway. 

In reality the prototype GNR atlantic would have been a bigger locomotive than any of it's contemporary 0-6-0 goods locomotives on the GNR (or anywhere else in Britain). While not being in any a criticism, it does give this pairing a bit of an odd appearance.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Eastleigh (show map)

Taken on: June 16, 2018

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3292

GNR

Northern

John

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Firefly

Kerrs

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Eastleigh

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10.25

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2018

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