C & PRR Railway

5786

During 2011 the resident steam locomotive at the railway will be ex-GWR 0-6-0 pannier tank No 5786. This comes to the railway courtesy of the South Devon Railway Trust and the South Devon Railway at Buckfastleigh which is the locomotives home base.

©Sarah Anne Harvey

The 57xx class were built by the Great Western Railway sporadically from 1929 until 1949.
This locomotive was in service longer than most as after leaving GWR it was bought by London Transport, numbered L92, for use on engineering trains. It was last at Neasden shed in 1971 when steam ended there.
It was subsequently bought by the Worcester Locomotive Society and is now based at the South Devon Railway.

©Sarah Anne Harvey

It will start working at Chinnor on 20^th March, our first operating day of the 2011 season.