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Chaloner (locomotive)

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has received a new boiler fitted at Boston Lodge Works but apart from that is composed of entirely original material, making it unique among mid-Victorian locomotives. The newest part is the water tank which originated on a locomotive called 'Victoria' and dates from 1897. It has been successively
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a distance of twenty five miles achieving speeds over well over 20 mph on the flat. A week later it worked to Blaenau Ffestiniog and back with slate wagons. Correcting the valves' size and other adjustments since then have seen further improvements to performance affecting economy.
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During its display in the old de Winton works in Caernarfon a works photograph was discovered showing the engine as-built with its cab. A replica cab was built and fitted, but it made operating conditions difficult and it was removed and placed in store after two years.
80:. Pen-yr-orsedd leased the Penybryn tipping tramway in 1890, so for a while Chaloner may have continued to run on its original line. It was withdrawn from service at Pen-yr-orsedd around 1950, and stored in a locomotive shed at the quarry with 125:. Though in poor condition it hauled trains there for several years, until replaced by more powerful locomotives needed for longer trains. It was housed at the National Railway Museum in York from 1977 until 1983. 302: 132:
improved since preservation. In 2011 it worked a train of two slate wagons and members from Caernarfon (opposite the works where it was built) to Porthmadog on the
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The locomotive was used to haul the opening train of the 'Iron Horse Railroad' at Leighton Buzzard in 1968. The railway later became the
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was supplied new to the Pen-y-Bryn slate quarry, Nantlle. Unusually for a de Winton locomotive, it was supplied with an overall cab.
177:. Other visits were made in 2011 and 2019. It has visited 24 other railways, including some in France, Germany and Belgium. 174: 221: 265: 237:"LEASE of Penybryn Tramway". Gwynedd Archives, ID: Penyrorsedd Additional deposit 1: 93. Caernarfon Record Office. 170: 122: 26: 166:, including fitting of a new boiler. Another of a number of visits was the Festival of Steam Gala, May 1997. 81: 51: 162:
for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations in 1986. It returned in October 1986 for an overhaul at
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Works photograph of Chaloner, as supplied with cab to Pen-y-Bryn slate quarry, Nantlle
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Festiniog Railway. Volume 2: From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014
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was purchased by Alfred Fisher, who restored it to working order.
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Fisher, Alfred; Fisher, David; Pierce-Jones, Gwynfor (2011).
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Preserved narrow gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
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Index


LBNGR
narrow-gauge
steam locomotive
De Winton
vertical-boilered
North Wales slate industry

Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry
Kerr Stuart
Diana

Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
Welsh Highland Railway
Ffestiniog Railway
Boston Lodge
Welsh Highland Heritage Railway
Welsh Highland Railway (Caernarfon)


ISBN
978-0956515711
Locomotive Portraits
Johnson, Peter
Festiniog Railway. Volume 2: From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014
WHR news
Categories
Preserved narrow gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
Individual locomotives of Great Britain
Industrial locomotives of Great Britain

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