4247
4247 - “42xx” class tank locomotive. This engine, restored with the aid of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant, is normally based at the Bodmin and Wenford Railway. It ran for some years on the GWR and left at the end of 2004.
- 2-8-0T
- Great Western Railway
- 1910
- 82 tons
- 1800 gals
- Heavy freight work, mainly in the South Wales coalfields. No. 4247 spent much of its life handling china clay traffic in Cornwall. 165 of these engines, which were the only 2-8-0 tank locomotives to run in the UK, were built at Swindon.