GWR Route: Birmingham and Henley in Arden Railway Company

Lapworth to Henley in Arden Branch Line: gwrha2818

A painting showing a contractors 0-4-0ST locomotive being driven up the High Street to the B&HRC terminus station circa 1894. TR Perkins reported the event in a 1902 issue of the Railway Magazine. He wrote, 'During the construction of the line a locomotive was required at the Henley end for contractor's purposes, but as the great cutting was unfinished it was impossible to convey on thither by rail. The engine was accordingly delivered at Bearley station, 4 miles distant, and, rails being laid down before it, and taken up after its passage, it travelled to its destination by road under its own steam, passing through the main street of the town to the terminus of the railway.'

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