WHEN STEAM WAS FUN... - a photo on Flickriver

            Probably a health and safety officials nightmare but it was not that unusual on industrial systems though the low sides of the wagon are a little alarming.

Peckett OY Class 0-4-0ST no. 2081 of 1947 at Foxfield Colliery in September 1971.

Nechells Gas Works no.11. This class OY-S locomotive was built by Peckett & Sons in 1947 and was delivered new to the Nechells Gas Works of the City of Birmingham Gas Department where it became No 11. The locomotive is a variant of the OY design to cope as it needed to cope with tight curves so it has a shorter wheelbase. It also has a lowered cab floor and roof, and a shorter saddletank and dome than the standard OY class locomotives.

The locomotive was transferred from Nechells to the Swan Village Works in Walsall in August 1965 and worked there until rail operations ceased in 1969. It was then bought privately and moved to Foxfield.

This class OY-S locomotive was built by Peckett & Sons in 1947 and was delivered new to the Nechells Gas Works of the City of Birmingham Gas Department where it became No 11. The locomotive is a variant of the OY design to cope as it needed to cope with tight curves so it has a shorter wheelbase. It also has a lowered cab floor and roof, and a shorter saddletank and dome than the standard OY class locomotives.

The locomotive was transferred from Nechells to the Swan Village Works in Walsall in August 1965 and worked there until rail operations ceased in 1969.

The additional information comes from the very helpful 'Preserved British Steam Locomotives' website. There are only a couple of photos of this loco working and both are from the very early days of the railway. I can't remember ever seeing this engine in steam.

This is one from the Tom Derrington Collection with photographer unknown.
I didn't visit till about 1973-74. 

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