guest locos
Betton Grange
Steam Locomotive
Betton Grange, which uses components from other scrapped classes of GWR locomotive, fills an important gap in the number of surviving GWR-designed two-cylinder locomotives. Steaming for the first time in 2024, 6880 visits us courtesy of the Betton Grange society.
Lady of Legend
Steam Locomotive
The Saint class was a genuinely ground-breaking design introduced by the Great Western Railway’s Chief Mechanical Engineer, G J Churchward, in 1902. Although none survived scrapping, due to the standardised methods of the GWR, brand new class member 2999 Lady of Legend has been able to be recreated by the Great Western Society at Didcot from donor parts, first steaming in 2019.
GWR ‘MOGUL’ 9351
Steam Locomootive
The West Somerset Railway’s ‘Mogul’ no. 9351 was completed in 2004 and is a successful conversion from scrapyard-condition 5101-class 2-6-2T tank locomotive no. 5193. The tanks needed replacing so it was decided to convert it to a tender locomotive by modifying the rear frames and also removing the rear bunker. adding a new cab and tender to provide greater coal and water capacity for the long and steeply graded West Somerset line. This is only the third visit the locomotive has made to another heritage railway. The GWR considered exactly this design for a light 2-6-0 but it was never built.
