Our new steam locomotive for the 2024 season is GWR Small Prairie 4555. She's on hire from our friends at the Dartmouth Steam Railway for the main summer season and pulled her first service train on the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway on Sunday 17th March. She was specially repainted from her Great Western livery to the British Railways lined green livery in time for her arrival at our Railway!
And she's going to celebrate her 100th birthday this year!!
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- Builder
- GWR Swindon
- Class/type
- GWR Small Prairie
- Built year
- 1924
- Engine output
- Boiler pressure 200 lbs/sq in
- Engine type
- Cylinder size 17 in × 24 in
- Fuel tank capacity
- Water 1000 imperial gallons, coal 3t 14cwt
- Livery
- British Railways lined green
- Max speed
- 25mph on our line!
- Status
- Operational
- Tractive effort
- 21,250 lbf
- Weight
- 57 tons
- Wheel arrangement
- 2-6-2
- Wheel diameter
- 4 ft 7+1⁄2 in