Terrier Pictures

A well known magazine, Ian Allan’s Locomotives Illustrated, is presently featuring a series on engines built at Southern Railway works.

Issue No.159 features Part 1 of Brighton, covering the period 1871 to 1906 which, of course, is totally within London Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) auspices and neatly brackets what could be termed the first Terrier era from inception to initial scrapings and disposals.

There are a number of excellent pictures of locomotives, with, inevitably, one class in particular catching my eye!! The magazine is highly recommended for Terrier pictures alone with my vote going to a splendid view of 48 Leadenhall in virtually as-new condition. Incidentally, this engine shared the dishonour of being one of the first four Terrier locos to be scrapped along with 51 Rotherhithe 65 Tooting and 66 Hatcham. A cynic might say this at least avoided the embarrassment of another 65 in preservation to go with K&ESR based 30065 and Bluebell’s 31065 as its BR number, by extension, would have been 32665. But at least these four starlets of the late Victorian era appropriately met their maker in the same year as the old Queen. Does any reader know in which order they went or can theorise why these four rather than any others?

Still on the subject of pictures, TTT are extremely grateful to Mr Gene Kruger who has sent us photographs taken in August of our ‘missing link’ 54 Waddon. These scenes may be seen in the gallery under August 2005. This engine had a most colourful life working on the Sheppey Light Railway after being sold to the South Eastern & Chatham. It also ran for a time with a P-class boiler. In 1963 the engine wound up in Montreal, Canada at the Canadian Railway Museum having been withdrawn by BR the previous year. Its finest moment on K&ESR metals came when it shared duty with 32670 on the Ramblers Excursion six-coach train of 18 October 1959. For many, it was JS Gilks’ famous picture of this train below Ewhurst with Bodiam Castle in the background that inspired the ultimate return to Bodiam in 2000.

Lastly a note about the Contacts link which has still to be set up. It has been decided that the contact address for correspondence will be that of the Secretary and the email will be info@terriertrust.org.uk – once the technical expert is available, this will be established and routed automatically to my email which is terrier78@freeuk.com

HN-14/10/2005