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Here is main tank engine of my OCs, SDJR Fowler 3F class "Jinty" 0-6-0T No. 26, aka "Sandra".

Bio:
Sandra was built in 1927 by the Hunslet Engine Company, one of the firms contracted out by the LMS to construct the class, for shunting duties, originally numbered as "16521". Despite being built for goods work and marshalling yards, Sandra would serve as a pilot at St Pancreas station in London, the former Midland Railway terminus. As a result, she was a regular attendee at London Pilots Union meetings at Kings Cross station's Top Shed, located next door. In 1934, Sandra received the number "7438" and despite the possibility of war, she would remain at St Pancreas as its pilot, ultimately becoming a core member of the London Pilots Union as the representative for St Pancreas station. Sandra played a role in "Operation: Pied Piper" during the infamous Blitz of 1940, while herself almost being lost in the air-raid, only for the bomb to miss and destroy a line of coaches instead. Following Nationalisation in 1948, Sandra was renumbered as "BR No. 47438" and in 1954, was reallocated from St Pancreas to near Derbyshire, moving between sheds until 1961 when she was withdrawn from Goole shed in Yorkshire and was due to be scrapped, which she was transported by rail to St Rollox. However, fate had other ideas.

That same year, a young Australian locomotive collector, known as "Mr Malroy" was looking for a British locomotive to preserve and operate beside his first locomotive, a NSWGR 25 class mogul called "Nicholas" (No. 2513). He found Sandra and with week-long negotiations, purchased her off BR and requested her to be inspected inside St Rollox works prior to shipment to Australia. When it was found that she needed some major repairs, Mr Malroy approved of them which said repairs would take at least two years counting other locomotives from BR undergoing repairs alongside Sandra. It was during this time she discovered the parts of a 4-6-0 dismantled at the works back in December 1945 and with a request for her owner, bought the parts as well, along with a ferry van off BR to transport them. Sandra and the ferry van of parts was shipped out of the UK in late-1963 and arrived in Darling Harbour, Sydney, in early-1964, which she met Nicholas. Since then, Sandra has been operational in an inauthentic lined SDJR Prussian Blue livery, which she never wore, along with the number "26" since the highest number of any of her siblings used by the SDJR was No. 25.

Sprite base: ThomasFan21
Face: Princess-Muffins
Livery: Myself

DO NOT USE!

Description
Here is main tank engine of my OCs, SDJR Fowler 3F class "Jinty" 0-6-0T No. 26, aka "Sandra".

Bio:
Sandra was built in 1927 by the Hunslet Engine Company, one of the firms contracted out by the LMS to construct the class, for shunting duties, originally numbered as "16521". Despite being built for goods work and marshalling yards, Sandra would serve as a pilot at St Pancreas station in London, the former Midland Railway terminus. As a result, she was a regular attendee at London Pilots Union meetings at Kings Cross station's Top Shed, located next door. In 1934, Sandra received the number "7438" and despite the possibility of war, she would remain at St Pancreas as its pilot, ultimately becoming a core member of the London Pilots Union as the representative for St Pancreas station. Sandra played a role in "Operation: Pied Piper" during the infamous Blitz of 1940, while herself almost being lost in the air-raid, only for the bomb to miss and destroy a line of coaches instead. Following Nationalisation in 1948, Sandra was renumbered as "BR No. 47438" and in 1954, was reallocated from St Pancreas to near Derbyshire, moving between sheds until 1961 when she was withdrawn from Goole shed in Yorkshire and was due to be scrapped, which she was transported by rail to St Rollox. However, fate had other ideas.

That same year, a young Australian locomotive collector, known as "Mr Malroy" was looking for a British locomotive to preserve and operate beside his first locomotive, a NSWGR 25 class mogul called "Nicholas" (No. 2513). He found Sandra and with week-long negotiations, purchased her off BR and requested her to be inspected inside St Rollox works prior to shipment to Australia. When it was found that she needed some major repairs, Mr Malroy approved of them which said repairs would take at least two years counting other locomotives from BR undergoing repairs alongside Sandra. It was during this time she discovered the parts of a 4-6-0 dismantled at the works back in December 1945 and with a request for her owner, bought the parts as well, along with a ferry van off BR to transport them. Sandra and the ferry van of parts was shipped out of the UK in late-1963 and arrived in Darling Harbour, Sydney, in early-1964, which she met Nicholas. Since then, Sandra has been operational in an inauthentic lined SDJR Prussian Blue livery, which she never wore, along with the number "26" since the highest number of any of her siblings used by the SDJR was No. 25.

Sprite base: ThomasFan21
Face: Princess-Muffins
Livery: Myself

DO NOT USE!