A superb surprise to see such a lovely locomotive
running on the Embsay Bolton Abbey line.
Of course a sister engine 6619 was with the railway
a few years back now.
5643 returned to steam at the Ribble Steam Railway Easter 2013 and is currently at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway on loan for 2015.
5643 hauled its first passenger train in 43 years – ably taking the 1405 Haverthwaite to Lakeside and return on 1st September 2006. There had been an enforced period of limbo since the first test steaming's and its first run under its own steam, the previous November – because it emerged during the early part of 2006 that the regulator that controls the flow of steam into the cylinders had developed a small crack that could not be repaired. The only option was to have a pattern made and a new regulator cast, machined, fettle'd and installed. All this took considerable time, effort and money.
The locomotive has been painted in fully lined British Railways green livery, with later BR crest on the tank sides. 5643 was built at the Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works in October 1925. It spent its entire working life in South Wales, and was withdrawn from Barry Shed in July 1963, moving the short distance to the now famous Woodham’s scrapyard in Barry.
Many thanks to Ribble Steam Railway for the notes on 5643
The engine will be running all year at Embsay Bolton Abbey.
http://www.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk/
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