Lizzie

**Elizabeth**, known to everyone as **Lizzie**, is a GWR Churchward-era Mogul that works on the Moorland Steam Railway. She, like Will and her sister, Olivia, served during the Great War.

## Bio

Elizabeth was built at Swindon Works in 1917 for the legendary Great Western Railway (GWR) but was first used by the Railway Operating Division (ROD), due to the latter needed locomotives over in France and Belgium to help defeat the Germans and transport tanks to the Western Front. She was the first member of the class taken to France.

Following the war, Lizze was brought to the Great Western Railway and finally gained green after spending time in khaki and black for the ROD. She mostly worked on the Welsh branch lines and even worked with members of the new 7800 'Manor' class 4-6-0 but since they were normally problematic, she had to normally double-head in order to keep them on time. During WWII, Lizzie tried to avoid ending up as War Department property again and didn't join the Steam Reserve Corps because she didn't want war to simply be a part of her, while her younger sister joined the SRC. Lizzie ended up moving from Wales to working Cornish passenger services out of Swindon until her withdrawal from service in 1959 while based at Shrewsbury shed.

Lizzie was purchased for preservation in 1965 and transported to Northampsmith that same year but restoration on her didn't begin until 2000, when space became available for it to be carried out. Restored in 2006 in her first livery which was applied to her in 1917, Lizzie made her first movements under her own steam in nearly 60 years.

## Basis or real locomotive

Lizzie is based off the real locomotive. It was one of 342 GWR 4300s built by Swindon Works and Robert Stephenson & Co. from 1911 to 1932. They were the first "Holcroft-era" GWR locomotives built under George Jackson Churchward from 1911 to 1922 for mixed traffic duties as the need arose for such a duel-purpose locomotive. Eleven of these were sent to France in 1917 as part of the Railway Operating Division as No. 5319-5326 and 5328-5330 during the First World War, which were later returned to the GWR in 1919. A further batch of 4300s were built under Churchward's successor Charles Benjamin Collett with minor modifications including outside steam pipes and Collett cabs. Withdrawals began in between 1936 and 1939 when 100 of the older batches were dismantled to create eighty 6800 'Grange' class (Buck's class) and twenty 7800 'Manor' class (Ashley Manor's class) 4-6-0s. Official withdraws were halted due to World War Two and didn't properly begin until 1948 under British Railways (BR) until the last six have been withdrawn in 1964. Two have been preserved, one from the ROD batch and one from the later Collett batch.

No. 5319 was one of the ROD batch built in 1917 and returned to the GWR in 1919. It was later fitted with outside steam pipes in 1945 and was withdrawn in 1959 and scrapped by T. W. Ward in 1960.

## Trivia

Justin is her older brother while Olivia and Flanders are her younger siblings

Lizzie's model is a repainted Dapol model.

Unlike Olivia, Lizzie doesn't have a scar on her face.

Lizzie has been modified to her original condition from before 1945 with her steam pipes moved inside.

* Lizzie also has rerailing jacks on her front, something her sister Olivia lacks.

In many depictions, Lizzie is numbered as '5322' but that number was used for the character Olivia. As a result, another 4300 from the same batch had to be chosen and the number '5319' was selected.