Some oast pictures from my first visit to Minehead
This was before I got digital and have been scaned
from transparencies.
BR Std class 4 tank
Small Prairie 5542
The engine that never was GWR Mogul 9351
9350 being tht last number awarded to a Mogul
by Swindon, so WSR awarded this old Prairie
the 1 to make 9351 when rebuilt as Mogul
The small Prairies were good little hard working
engines.
- 5542 was built at Swindon in 1928 at a cost of £3,602 and allocated to Gloucester Horton Road. Over the next 33 years it spent time at Bristol, Taunton (where it spent most time), Newton Abbot and Westbury where it spent the last two years of its service before being withdrawn in 1961 having run for 987,429 miles.
- After 14 years in the scrapyard, 5542 was sold to the West Somerset Railway Association in 1976. In 1979, it was sold to a group of WSRA members who formed the 5542 Fund to save and restore it for use on the West Somerset Railway. The engine was returned to steam in 2002.
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