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For the avoidance of doubt, I didn't save it - it was saved!

Tom

 

3f boiler?

 

i'd heard a rumour it was to receive new tubeplates and be incorporated in an Aspinall class 28 recreation

 

Here is another one. At Longmoor at the little museum there was a loco boiler, dug up locally. it used to be out the back of the museum, until it closed.

A few more:

http://www.brooklynrail.net/BuriedLocomotives.html

http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/southland/303427/unearthed-steam-locomotive-possible-project

http://terminator92.blogspot.co.uk/p/pacific-ocean.html

http://www.baldwin-steam.org.nz/loco/356.html

 

Should have rebuilt my favorite Triang loco the 3f 0-6-0 tender engine.

 

Having seen it at Mangapps, I doubt it was off a Jinty. In the end, didn't people decide that it was a M&GN boiler?

 

These guys say it was a MR boiler, but the chimney does not look very MR.

http://www.gcr-rollingstocktrust.co.uk/news_output.asp?id=227

 

Neither does the smokebox door arrangement.

Lordy

 

Past threads - https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/m-gn-boilers.39276/#post-531490 - state that it's a Great Eastern origin smokebox on a Midland boiler.

 

Does M7 No. 30053 qualify?

Have heard that the bunker had already been scrapped when the Americans rang to save her?

 

Thanks for everybody's contribution to this thread. Makes a great read.

 

With 71000 didn't one of the cylinders end up in the science museum?

 

Yep, and and all the motion.

 

That was the only bit deemed worth saving wasn't it?

 

As I recall, they took everything, and left the frames, wheels, and boiler. Why they never actually preserved the engine. was probably down to money and space in Kensington. I used to love the coal mine they used to have there. Last time I went there with the kids, it had gone all high tech, and the historical stuff was behind glass. It used to be very different. I bet the 1940's house in the IWM has gone too.

 

And the other one whipped off and scrapped for balance?

 

So what are you saying Tyseley are telling fibs that it's 4965?

 

It was the Derby G6 boiler from M&GN class D 4-4-0 No.50, which was scrapped at Stratford in 1945. The smokebox is from a GER J15, F5 or similar and is presumed to have been fitted to the boiler when it was sold by the LNER for re-use at the timber factory. The chimney shown in the photo is from an 8F and was placed on the smokebox as being a more suitable storage place than sat on the ground! The smokebox is now cosmetically restored and is on display in the museum at Mangapps. It is now fitted with the chimney from (wait for it)..... a GWR pannier tank