LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Cofton Tunnel: mrcof1670

Logan and Hemingway's 0-6-0ST No 5, built by Manning Wardle of Hunslet Leeds as Works No 1795. The locomotive was built by the company's Boyne Engine Works, Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds on the 24th June 1912. It was delivered to Thomas W Ward’s Albion Works in Sheffield. Wards, apart from being celebrated scrap metal recyclers, were into various forms of heavy engineering. The company had also become machinery dealers and a spin off from that was the buying and selling of industrial locomotives, usually used ones. The locomotive was set aside for preservation in August 1969 by South Durham Steel and Iron Company Ltd, who were the owners of the Irchester quarries. See www.manning-wardle.moonfruit.com/loco-history/4516910858 for more information.

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