Great Western Railway 4-4-0 No. 9017 (3217) 'Earl of Berkeley'
Highley, Worcestershire, UK 		Location: The Engine House, Severn Valley Railway
Status: Display
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Posted: Mar 12, 2026 @ 21:03:41 by Russell Newman
The sole surviving ex GWR Dukedog 4-4-0 No. 9017 "Earl of Berkeley", has now arrived at the Severn Valley Railway and has now been placed on display in their Engine House, at Highley, Worcestshire, on the Severn Valley line where it will be on display for two years until 2028.
Posted: Jan 31, 2026 @ 15:01:52 by Russell Newman
After being on display at the Vale of Rheidol Railway in their museum in the former Great Western Railway locomotive shed at Aberystwyth for the last two years, the sole surviving ex GWR Dukedog 4-4-0 No. 9017 "Earl of Berkeley", is now relocating to the Severn Valley Railway where it will go on display in their Engine House Museum at Highley in Worcestshire, until such time the Bluebell Railway is ready to have it back for overhaul.
Posted: Feb 25, 2024 @ 14:02:05 by Russell Newman
It has been announced that the Vale of Rheidol Railway has signed an agreement with the Bluebell Railway to loan the sole surviving ex GWR Dukedog 4-4-0 No. 9017 "Earl of Berkeley", to visit on loan to them for display in their new museum in the former Great Western Railway locomotive shed at Aberystwyth. This is a bit of a home coming for No. 9017 being built in 1938 at Swindon Works had spent its working life hauling trains on the Cambrian Line in Wales and remained in use until the 1950s as it was light enough to work trains over Barmouth Bridge and would have been shedded at Aberystwyth during her service days with both the Great Western Railway and British Railways, the very shed that it would have been based in and worked out of in the 1950s. The locomotive and other exhibits will be available to view when the museum opens from the 23rd March 2024. No. 9017 "Earl of Berkeley", will remain at the Vale of Rheidol Railway on loan until its time for another overhaul at its home at the Bluebell Railway comes.
Posted: Jan 15, 2024 @ 07:01:44 by Achim
The overhaul had not begun by end 2022 due to work on other locomotives being regarded as higher priorities.
Posted: Nov 3, 2017 @ 18:11:36 by Russell Newman
Some good news for the GWR Dukedog 4-4-0 No. 9017 "Earl of Berkeley" as the Bluebell Railway plans to have it overhauled in 2019 to be put back in to steam again. Once to overhauls to No. 80151, 928 and 34059 are completed.
Posted: Feb 18, 2004 @ 21:02:15 by Matthew
Change status to Operational.