CPC(UK) Ltd 0-4-0ST No. 'Spitfire'
Ludborough, Lincolnshire, UK
Location: Lincolnshire Wolds Railway
Status: Operational
Posted: Feb 14, 2010 @ 13:02:20 by Phil Horton
Former CPC UK Ltd No. 701, a 0-4-0ST, is seen in steam at the Chasewater Railway, Brownhills, Staffordshire on 21 February 2009. The loco is painted in Great Western Railway green livery with GWR brass number plate. In this guise it is posing as sister loco Andrew Barclay no. 1045 of 1905 which was built for the Swansea Harbour Trust. The Trust was taken over by the GWR in 1923 when the loco was numbered 701. In 1946 it was renumbered 1140. This loco was scrapped in 1958.