HOLT-SHERINGHAN RAILWAY THE POPPY LINE NORFOLK ENGLAND Steam Loco for Holt train

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HOLT-SHERINGHAN RAILWAY THE POPPY LINE NORFOLK ENGLAND Steam Loco for Holt train
HOLT-SHERINGHAN RAILWAY THE POPPY LINE NORFOLK ENGLAND Steam Loco for Holt train

1 The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GNJR) was a railway network in England, in the area connecting southern Lincolnshire, the Isle of Ely and north Norfolk. It developed from several local independent concerns and was incorporated in 1893. It was jointly owned by the Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railway, and those companies had long sponsored and operated the predecessor companies.

2 The engines base was Bath (Green Park)

3 53809

On 20 November 1929, locomotive No. 89 (Later 53809) Was taking a freight train north towards Bath and when traveling through Combe Down Tunnel due to the train moving slowly (which wasn’t helped due to the weight of the train and the stop at Midford) the crew of the engine were overcome by the smoke resulting in the train running away down the hill crashing in the goods yard outside Bath Green Park, the driver Henry Jennings and two shunters in the yard were killed in the accident.

No.89/53809 is now owned by John Moorhouse and operated by the 13809 Preservation Society Ltd. Following restoration at Swanwick in 1980 in LMS livery as 13809, it worked through the 1980s and early 1990s, reverting to its BR Number 53809 in 1987 (with the Early Crest), before being withdrawn for overhaul in 1994.

The locomotive emerged in January 2006 in BR Black Livery as No. 53809 (with the Late Crest), entering service in early February at the Midland Railway – Butterley. Shortly after this overhaul was finished, the loco made a poignant return to the site of Bath Green Park Station (now a car park for Sainsbury’s) in March 2006, to celebrate 40 years since the S&D closed, after which it was reunited with No. 88 at the WSR. locomotive then ran for 5 years before it was withdrawn from service early in 2011, requiring boiler repairs. The engine’s second overhaul was completed in February 2016, keeping its previous BR livery with the Post 1956 Crest. In January 2018 it came to the North Norfolk Railway on a long term operational contract.

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