Taff Vale 0-6-2 tank engine No 85

On the same shed visit as I photographed BR Std

75078 there in the corner was Taffy 85

 

 

Whilst all the attention has been focused on the return to service of 5820, the pending re-launch of ‘City of Wells’  and the pending start on the overhaul of 41241, out of the limelight the progress being made on TVR no. 85 has gone on unnoticed and unreported. It is some time since we saw no. 85 out on the branch but the team in Haworth Locomotive works have not left this withdrawn engine rest for too long. With the smallest useful engine available being MR 4F 0-6-0 43924, the Railway has been bereft of a small but handy tank engine to take the more lightly loaded trains on quieter days. Since entering the shed the engine has been completely stripped down and a lot of work has been undertaken to return the locomotive to traffic, hopefully, later this year.

 

 

So let us indeed hope she will soon be steaming

along with the LNWR Coal Tank of which she is

essentially a sister engine.

 

 

Above is the boiler for the Taff Vale No85.

 

Many thanks to http://www.kwvr.co.uk/ for the

update on progress.