Steam Locomotive Information

Here are the notes for London & North Western Railway No. 'Pet', a 0-4-0ST located in York, Yorkshire. If you have additional information about this locomotive, and would like to share it, click the Add Note button.

Posted: Dec 5, 2006 @ 05:12:34 by Steve Frost
The London and North Western Railway established its works at Crewe, which became an important railway junction. Crewe built, over the years, an amazing variety of locomotives from the early LNWR locos like 'Columbine' in the Science Museum, London, through Webb's notorious compounds to LMS and, later, BR steam and diesel locomotives, not forgetting the class 91 electrics that whisk the East Coast expresses effortlessly past the National Railway Museum. This is perhaps the most unusual of Crewe's products. Most major engineering works had an internal rail system and Crewe was no exception. They built a fleet of these tiny locos to carry components around the workshops and even onto Crewe passenger station which was reached by an impossible looking 'Spider Bridge' which carried these tiny locos and their equally small trains across the running lines. Its interesting to compare this with 'Wren' in the same museum, from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Horwich works.


London & North Western Railway 0-4-0ST No. 'Pet' York, Yorkshire, UK	Location: National Railway Museum Status: Display