Woolwich Arsenal 0-4-0ST No. 2 'Lion'
Ludborough, Lincolnshire, UK 		Location: Licolnshire Wolds Railway
Status: Operational
Posted: Mar 29, 2026 @ 18:03:03 by Russell Newman
The ex Woolwich Arsenal, Peckett built E Class 0-4-0ST Works No. 1351 "Lion", is visiting the North Tyneside Steam Railway for the first time for their Steam Gala event on the 5th to 7th of June 2026. Its visit will be a home coming as the locomotive had spent most of its later working life around Tyneside as when it finnished working on the Royal Arsenal’s extensive internal railway system in Woolwich, it was sold to Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company in 1950 and worked on the quayside by the river Tyne until entering preservation at the Chasewater Railway in 1974. This will be the locomotive’s first visit to another railway since returning from overhaul.
Posted: Aug 15, 2025 @ 10:08:30 by Russell Newman
The former Woolwich Arsenal, Peckett built E Class 0-4-0ST Works No. 1351 "Lion", is operational again following completion of its overhaul after 20 year out of action at the Licolnshire Wolds Railway. The locomotive is unique as its the only surviving Peckett built E Class 0-4-0ST in preservation.
Posted: Oct 28, 2007 @ 14:10:01 by Andrew Wilson
Lion is a Peckett 0-4-0ST (makers number 1351) built in 1914. She spent much of her working life at Woolwich Arsenal and later at Wallsend Slipway, Northumberland. She took up residence on the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway in 1998 after service at the Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire.