Steam Locomotive Information

Here is the photo album for Welshpool & Llanfair Railway No. 823 (2) 'The Countess', a 0-6-0T located in Llanfair Caereinion, Powys. If you would like to suggest additional photos for this album, please click here.

Pictured at Welshpool on 13th September 2014 in Great Western Railway livery and number plates.

Pictured at Welshpool on 13th September 2014.

A nice study of the loco at Castle Caereinion on 13th September 2014. The driver in conversation with the guard while awaiting the single line token.

At Llanfair Caerenion on 27 August 1969

No.823 'The Countess' piloting 2-6-2T No.14 into Welshpool on 4 May 1987.

On shed at Llanfair Caereinion on 26 August 1990

No.2 'The Countess' at the Welshpool terminus on 03 July 1994.

Inside the cab of the loco in August 2019. Built for this railway, later run by the Great Western and then by British Railways until closure in 1956. Both original locos survived and are still active today.

Inside the cab, a close up photo shows the present boiler is a 21st Century product. August 2019.

Inside the cab we see the vacuum brake gauge - calibrated in inches of mercury.


Welshpool & Llanfair Railway 0-6-0T No. 823 (2) 'The Countess' Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, UK	Location: Welshpool & Llanfair Railway Status: Overhaul