Patrick

**Patrick** is a rebuilt tank locomotive that operates on the Moorland Steam Railway. He is one of few locomotives from the Southern Region that the railway owns.

## Bio

Patrick was built as a Sterling R class in 1890 at Ashford Works and later rebuilt in the 1914 by Harry Wainwright to an R1 with a spare H class suburban tank boiler. He mostly worked around Folkestone Harbour and rarely left the harbour since as he said, "There was always something to do and there was never a dull moment at Folkestone." Patrick was withdrawn by BR in 1960 and sent to his builder of Ashford Works to be scrapped. Instead, he was kept in storage until a buyer could be found and in 1964, he was bought by the newly founded Moorland Steam Railway.

Patrick arrived on the MSR in a large delivery of rescued steam locomotives in 1965 and was placed at the back of the railway's restoration que. Work on him didn't start until 2001 when he was brought into the workshops for restoration in SE&CR Edwardian livery with a projected completion date at around August 2010. His restoration was completed in 2016 and his first runs in full livery corresponded to another event happening that time.

## Livery

Patrick is mostly painted in SE&CR Edwardian Green livery with Indian Red frames and red number plates.

## Basis or real locomotive

Patrick is based on the real locomotive. It was one of 25 SER R class 0-6-0Ts built at Ashford Works between 1888 to 1898 for shunting duties. Between 1910 and 1922, 13 of the 25 R class locomotives were rebuilt with Wainwright H class 0-4-4T boilers (with some modified to run on the Canterbury and Whitstable route in 1938) and become known as R1s. They mostly served on the "Crab & Winkle" route and the Folkestone Harbour branch line from Folkestone Junction. Withdrawals for the un-rebuilt R class locomotives occurred between 1931 and 1943 with all scrapped. Withdrawals for the R1s began in 1949 and the last was retired in 1960 and like the R class, all were scrapped.

No. 31147 was built in 1888 as SER No. 337 and was rebuilt to an R1 in 1922. It was withdrawn by BR and scrapped in 1960.

## Trivia

Patrick's model is a modified and detailed Wrenn model. His model was modified with a new engine, cab interior, brake gear and smaller tension lock couplings to improve the tooling of the model, which was released by Hornby-Dublo in 1959 and re-released by Wrenn in 1968.

Patrick working at Folkestone Harbour is a reference to final days of the class.

Patrick is the only Sterling design introduced into the series and the third ex-SE&CR design in the series, the first and second are the Wainwright Cs Hogue and Harry.

In terms of purchase, Patrick is the second Southern locomotive bought by the MSR. The first being Westminster.

When things go wrong or doesn't go his way, Patrick's catchphrase is "That's doubly disappointing." This was taken from Richard Hammond during the Top Gear US Special when he complained about Jeremy Clarkson's car in the acceleration and braking challenge.

* This line is used by other characters through 'The Series 2010s' and foreshadows his introduction.

Patrick's sounds are recorded from SE&CR O1 class 0-6-0 No. 65.

Patrick was the last of his class to be rebuilt to an R1, which was carried out in 1922.

* Because of this, that makes his SECR Edwardian Green livery inauthentic to his condition, meaning he would be wearing SECR Unlined Grey instead.
* Oddly, Patrick even has the wrong shade of green for SECR Edwardian Green. Rather the real shade, which is similar to a shade called "Sherwood Green", the model is painted in "Racing Green". According to Shane Sowter, this was the closest colour he could get in Tamiya spray form to SECR Green.