Three lively pictures of the L&B. Underneath all this exterior is a 2-6-2 wheel arrangement (narrow gauge). The three earliest engines built by Manning Wardle of Leeds were named Yeo, Exe and Taw, after Exmoor rivers. The same company built Lew and Lyd in 1925 to a similar design. Owing to a locomotive builder's strike, the order for another went to America, Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, hence the Americanisms (cowcatcher etc). The locos had work done at eastleigh works and carried the E code. This was named Lyn. Replicas of Lyd and Lyn now run on the heritage line
64. The top two are of Lew, another was Lyn, picture 3.
66. And this is the Baldwin (Philadelphia) Lyn, 2-4-2 with three domes and a three-quarters tank. Lyn received modifications in Eastleigh, receiving the stove-pipe chimney in place of the original copper-capped one. I am told that the location of this shot is Pilton depot, Barnstaple.
Isn't the Lyn a 2-4-2T and not a 2-6-2 as you state at the top?
ReplyDeleteNo, three 2-6-2s were manufactured by Manning Wardle in the mid-1920s, Lew and Lyn were two of them. Lyn was scrapped in 1935 alas but Lew went to Brazil - quote " I imagine that it is well known that this Manning Wardle 2-6-2T was shipped from Swansea on 29 September 1936 aboard the SS Sabor and that its destination was Pernambuco (now called Recife - where I live). The only other fact known about this despatch is that she carried a shipping mark "ALC" painted upon her sides."
DeleteLooking through google I notice that the Yankee 2-4-2 built by Baldwin also bore the name Lyn. Is that the one just built as a reproduction?
DeleteThink I have got there in the end (see new text) and yes you are right, Lyn was 2-4-2. There is more info out there now compared to when I loaded these images. Thanks for the info.
DeleteYeo, Exe, Taw, and Lew were Manning Wardle 2-6-2T, Lyn was a Baldwin 2-4-2T, and Lyd is a modern replica.
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