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A fresh repaint into BR lined black and generated smoke effects bring the Bluebell Railway's out of ticket Adams 'Radial' 4-4-2T No. 30583 to life at Horstead Keynes during a 19th March 2019 photo-shoot.

30583 was built in 1885 by Neilson & Co, for London South Western Railway as No. 488. Sold in 1917 to Ministry of Munitions then worked as a Dock Shunter and pulling Staff Trains.

In 1923, Sold to Colonel Stephens and worked on his East Kent Railway, as a passenger train or on the once a month coal trains pulling fourteen wagons, this going on until 1943.

In 1946, Southern Railway re-purchased the locomotive, working on the tightly curved Lyme Regis branch until 1961.

And then in 1961, was purchased by the Bluebell Railway, working there until 1968 before being withdrawn from service for repairs and restoration.

Returning to service on 1973 in its original LSWR Dummond green livery.

Gaining another overhaul in 1985 and was last steamed in 1990.

LSWR's London Terminal was Waterloo. The company existed from 1840 until the regrouping merger in 1922, and becoming a part of the new Southern Railway company.

Description

A fresh repaint into BR lined black and generated smoke effects bring the Bluebell Railway's out of ticket Adams 'Radial' 4-4-2T No. 30583 to life at Horstead Keynes during a 19th March 2019 photo-shoot.

30583 was built in 1885 by Neilson & Co, for London South Western Railway as No. 488. Sold in 1917 to Ministry of Munitions then worked as a Dock Shunter and pulling Staff Trains.

In 1923, Sold to Colonel Stephens and worked on his East Kent Railway, as a passenger train or on the once a month coal trains pulling fourteen wagons, this going on until 1943.

In 1946, Southern Railway re-purchased the locomotive, working on the tightly curved Lyme Regis branch until 1961.

And then in 1961, was purchased by the Bluebell Railway, working there until 1968 before being withdrawn from service for repairs and restoration.

Returning to service on 1973 in its original LSWR Dummond green livery.

Gaining another overhaul in 1985 and was last steamed in 1990.

LSWR's London Terminal was Waterloo. The company existed from 1840 until the regrouping merger in 1922, and becoming a part of the new Southern Railway company.