Sigrid

**Sigrid** is a tank locomotive built from a Woolwich N class locomotive kit. She is the only locomotive preserved by the Moorland Steam Railway bought from the North Western Railway.

## Bio

Sigrid started life as a kit of a SE&CR Maunsell N class built by Woolwich Arsenal during WWII and bought by the NWR in 1924. She was assembled as a 2-6-2T, like one of the other kits built to a 2-6-2T while the other built to a 2-6-4T and five were built as tender locomotives (e.g. No. 403 'Thorkell'). She, like all the Woolwichs on the NWR, named after one of the legendary figures of Sudrian history. Sigrid was painted into NWR Blue and featured a set of nameplates on her water tanks.

In 1940, Sigrid was damaged in an air-raid on Knapford by the Luftwaffe and was sent to Crewe Works since the main NWR workshops at Crovan's Gate didn't have any space to store her. When she was returned in 1942, she handled shunting around the Brendam Docks with Percy until he was due for an overhaul that year. In 1968, Sigrid was placed on goods trains from Tidmouth to Kildane when she was replaced by diesel multiple units (DMUs) both second-hand to a GWR-design by BR, on her suburban trains. In 1989, Sigrid, along with her brother 'Thorkell', were the last of the original NWR designs and when Thorkell was chosen to head the last NWR design train, Sigrid decided to cut ties to her older brother (who got in the way of her life) and out of jelousy, caused an incident that sent Thorkell for scrap. She was withdrawn following a failed injector at Killdane later that year and placed in the scrap sidings of Crovan's Gate Works.

## Livery

Sigrid is painted in NWR Lined Red livery with the letters 'NWR' painted on her water tanks and her number '407' painted on her bunker in gold leaf. She also carries the NWR crest above the 'W' and Isle of Wight-pattern nameplates on her water tanks. Previously, she was painted in normal NWR Lined Regatta Blue with the same layout as her Red livery minus crest.

## Basis or real locomotive

   Sigrid is based on a SE&CR N class 2-6-0. These were designed by Richard Maunsell and introduced by the SE&CR in 1917 but later members were delayed due to wartime restrictions. 80 (including 100 kits) were built by Ashford Works and Woolwich Arsenal for mixed-traffic duties on the Southern area of the UK. Withdrawals began in 1962 with the final one being withdrawn in 1966. One has been preserved.

Sigrid comes from one of the kits built by Woolwich Arsenal (110 kits in this universe) and of which were built by other railways with some converted to tank engines e.g. Metropolitan Railway K class (LNER L2) and Southern Railway W class, both built as 2-6-4Ts.

## Trivia

Sigrid is a locomotive created by Corwin Bainbridge, who runs the 'Railway Mania' YouTube channel. He's planning on creating his own version of NWR featuring the familiar TTTE locomotives (under real names) and custom locomotives from Sudrian history (like Sigrid) or locations.

* The major difference is that his Sigrid was made from a GBLC N class static model while Shane Sowter's was built from a Bachmann Branchline N class, but built with a similar method as the Railway Mania Sigrid.

Sigrid is named after Sigrid of Arlesdale, daughter of Ulf described in 'the Sigrid Saga' as "... a lady wise and brave... more skilled with a sword and bow than any a man... a worthy helpmate to her valiant lord (Thorkell of Norwich)..."

The reason for the Railway Mania and Shane Sowter's Sigrids have two different nameplates was explained in Sudrian Revival, which Sigrid's original nameplates were lost during her restoration and they couldn't find the same pattern used for her originals, so replaced them with Isle of Wight-pattern nameplates (same as Titan's)

* Both used Narrow Planet for the nameplates.

The only locomotive that Sigrid can't get along with is Bulldog.