Ibero-American Exposition 4-6-2 No. 'Whillan Beck'
Ravenglass, Cumbria, UK 		Location: Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
Status: Operational
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Photo Copyright © Dale W Fickés
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Posted: Mar 10, 2022 @ 10:03:15 by Dale W Fickés
This was Krauss (München) by number and year.
Posted: Feb 20, 2022 @ 11:02:57 by Russell Newman
The former Ibero-American Exposition 15inch gauge Krauss built pacific No. 8457 "Whillan Beck" is to visit Beamish Open Air Museum for their Steam Gala Weekend on the 9th and 10th of April 2022. The locomotive will be hauled there and at the Gala on the back of a road trailer by the Fowler Road locomotive "Providence" which will be the second time this Traction Engine would have moved the locomotive.
Posted: Apr 2, 2019 @ 13:04:09 by Russell Newman
The former Ibero-American Exposition 15inch gauge Krauss built pacific No. 8457 "Whillan Beck" will be making its first visit away from its Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway home as the locomotive is visiting the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent for their Steam and Diesel Gala weekend on the 11th and 12th of May 2019.
Posted: Mar 16, 2018 @ 12:03:31 by Russell Newman
Following test runs after its completion from overhaul the 15inch gauge Krauss built pacific No. 8457 "Whillan Beck" will be doing its inaugural passenger runs at the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway this weekend.
Posted: Nov 28, 2017 @ 12:11:56 by Russell Newman
The 15inch gauge Krauss built pacific No. 8457 "Whillan Beck" is now in service and fully painted and is currently undergoing test runs at the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway. The locomotive might make its debut on there Santa Specials over the Christmas season or in the New Year.
Posted: Mar 28, 2017 @ 17:03:21 by Russell Newman
The 15inch gauge Krauss built pacific No. 8457 is to be named "Whillan Beck" and to be painted in Caledonian Railway blue livery when it enters service at the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway later this year.
Posted: Jul 10, 2016 @ 16:07:27 by Robin R Beck
Krauss 8457 - only the boiler is at Bouth. I have been told the frames are being altered at Ravenglass. Appears they are saying it will take over a year to modify the loco. There is a working farm at Bouth, Old Hall Farm, open to the paying public every day. Their workshops overhaul road vehicles, steam traction engines and steam boilers.
Posted: Mar 1, 2016 @ 13:03:14 by Steve Frost
A remarkable story here. The loco was built in 1929 for the Ibero-American Exposition in Seville, where it ran daily for just over a year. After occasional working up to 1932, it was stored until its wheels were borrowed for use in a diesel loco in the 1960s. Then it was bought with the intention of using it on a line at Mataro, near Barcelona, but this never went ahead. The restoration of the loco continued and a new tender tank had been built.

The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Preservation Society raised the funds to buy and transport the loco to the UK, where more work will be done to prepare it for operation on the 15 inch gauge line in Cumbria.