Leighton Buzzard Light Railway No. 778

Bladwin 778 is an ex-War Department Light Railways (WDLR) Baldwin Class 10-12-D narrow gauge 4-6-0PT pannier tank steam locomotive that currently runs on the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway.
==Operational history==
No. 778 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in the USA in 1917. It was one of a total of 495 locomotives built to the order of the UK Ministry of Munitions that operated on the thousands of miles of narrow-gauge tracks that supplied the front line trenches during the First World War.
After the war the locomotive was one of 50 that were sent to work in India where it ran until the 1980s, finishing at the Upper India Sugar Mills in Uttar, Pradesh. 
==Preservation==
No. 778 was brought back to the United Kingdom and was rebuilt by the Greensand Loocomotive Trust, a team from the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in Bedfordshire.
After an overhaul the locomotive entered service in August 2007 and has been regularly used on passenger trains ever since. 
==Trivia==
* No. 778 became the first locomotive of this type to operate in Britain since 1950 once it was restored to operational condition. 
* No. 778 is one of five surviving members of the Baldwin Class 10-12-D in preservation. 
==Gallery==
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Category:Pannier tank locomotives
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Category:Baldwin locomotives
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Category:4-6-0 steam locomotives
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Category:Baldwin Class 10-12-D Locomotives
Category:Narrow-gauge locomotives
Category:Narrow-gauge steam locomotives
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Category:Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
Category:Locomotives that ran on Foreign Rails
Category:Preserved steam locomotives
Category:War Department locomotives