Byfield Quarries 0-6-0ST No. 2 'Byfield'
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, UK
Location: Foxfield Railway
Status: Overhaul
Posted: Jan 21, 2025 @ 12:01:31 by Russell Newman
The ex Byfield Quarries, Bagnall built 0-6-0ST Works No. 2655 "Byfield No. 2", has been sold to a new owner and the locomotive has now left the Plym Valley Railway and has relocated to its new home at the Foxfield Railway at Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire, where it is now under overhaul.
Posted: Dec 9, 2023 @ 09:12:09 by Russell Newman
The former Byfield Quarries, Bagnall built 0-6-0ST Works No. 2655 "Byfield No. 2" is being put up for sale by the Plym Valley Railway, to see the locomotive go to a new home and to help with the purchase of ex British Sugar Corporation Andrew Barclay built 0-4-0ST Works No. 2248 "Albert" for the railway.
Posted: Feb 1, 2017 @ 13:02:14 by Russell Newman
Work on Byfield No. 2 to return her to full working order is underway as its now being overhauled.
Posted: Jul 15, 2007 @ 11:07:01 by Andrew Wilson
Byfield No. 2 was built by Bagnall's, of Stafford, in 1942 (works no. WB2655). She was one of seven locomotives ordered under the British government’s "home ore scheme" to assist with the war effort in Ironstone Quarries. She worked at Byfield Ironstone Quarries until 1943. Subsequently she steamed at a series of quarries until retirement in 1970. She was saved for preservation on the Gloucester and Warwickshire Railway who sold her to the Plym Valley Railway on the outskirts of Plymouth, England, in September 2002. At present (2007) she is out of use awaiting overhaul.