Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway No.12 'Whillan Beck'

Built in 1929 at Krauss, Munich, works No. 8457, formerly named Pinta, is a 4-6-2 locomotive built to work at the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. After operating there throughout the exposition, it was then used occasionally until 1932 before being placed in storage until the 1960s, when it was purchased along with its sister locomotives to run on a park railway in Madrid, though it is unknown if No. 8457 ever ran there. In the 2000s it was then purchased by a group intending to start up a railway in Barcelona, but this project never materialised and the locomotive remained in storage. In 2015, the locomotive was purchased by the R&ERPS as part of the 'Train From Spain' Appeal and arrived in Cumbria in February 2016, with the chassis moving to Ravenglass later that month. The locomotive made its first moves under its own steam in November 2016, but required a new tender before it was able to enter service in March 2018. It was previously in crimson lake livery, though it has now been repainted in Caledonian Railway blue, as voted for by members of the R&ERPS.
Category:Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
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Category:4-6-2 locomotives
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