NCB1 Cannock Wood Colliery 0-6-0ST No. 'Wimblebury'
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, UK 		Location: Foxfield Railway
Status: Operational
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Posted: Mar 28, 2024 @ 16:03:01 by Russell Newman
The ex ex NCB Cannock Wood Colliery Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST Works No. 3839 "Wimblebury", has returned on loan to the Avon Valley Railway for the 2024 season, and will play a key roll during their 50th Anniversary Weekend Celebrations from the 4th to 7th of April 2024, by running as sister Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST "Glendower", for the event to recreate the railway in its early years of preservation the 1970s. The real "Glendower" was based at the Avon Valley Railway in the 1970s, but today is based at the South Devon Railway, where it resides today, currently in storage awaiting overhaul.
Posted: May 6, 2023 @ 09:05:14 by Russell Newman
The ex ex NCB Cannock Wood Colliery Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST Works No. 3839 "Wimblebury" has gone on loan to the Avon Valley Railway for the 2023 season.
Posted: Apr 24, 2022 @ 06:04:51 by Russell Newman
The ex ex NCB Cannock Wood Colliery Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST Works No. 3839 "Wimblebury" will be going on a hired visit to the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway for the summer season there.
Posted: Feb 1, 2021 @ 14:02:59 by Luke
status should be operational
Posted: Aug 19, 2018 @ 13:08:39 by Russell Newman
Austerity 0-6-0ST "Wimblebury" will be visiting the Middleton Railway for the Last Coals to Leeds Gala on the weekend of September 29th-30th 2018.
Posted: Jun 13, 2018 @ 10:06:22 by Russell Newman
Ex NCB Cannock Wood Colliery Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST "Wimblebury" will heading to the Welland Steam & Country Traction Engine Rally at Woodside Farm in Worcestershire where it will be giving ride on a short peace of track there on the weekend of July 27th, 28th & 29th 2018. The Welland Steam & Country Rally has a railway display every year there.