London & North Western Railway 2-2-2 No. 3020 'Cornwall'
Quainton Road, Buckinghamshire, UK 		Location: Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
Status: Display
Posted: Feb 10, 2017 @ 12:02:19 by Russell Newman
The veteran LNWR 2-2-2 No. 3020 "Cornwall" has gone on a two year loan to the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre where it is on display in there former LNWR Oxford station building.
Posted: Sep 2, 2005 @ 17:09:37 by Steve Frost
This is a remarkable survivor. The building date of 1847 doesn't give the full story, as it was built as a Crampton design with the extremely low slung boilers that were a characteristic of all Cramptons. Francis Trevithick rebuilt it with a conventional layout and higher pitched boiler, which was replaced at the end of the 19th century with the present boiler as shown. As train weights increased, single driver locos couldn't handle them, and the small boiler that the high level of the driving axle required (7 feet 9 inches wheels) meant that they were rapidly outclassed by 4-4-0s. Cornwall survived as the loco used by the engineers on inspection work. A single saloon coach was well within its capabilities. Withdrawal came in the early 1920's but it was saved for presevation. Incidentally, even the tender isn't original - it was attached in 1920, coming from a withdrawn DX class 0-6-0 goods engine. 'Cornwall' appeared at the 1925 centenary celebrations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and is now not very far away from the site of the displays and parade of that event, but it is a longer distance to its spiritual home at Crewe. Pity.
Posted: Nov 13, 2004 @ 08:11:27 by Fraser Darrah

Further photos of her at Shildon:

http://www.bluestarline.org/todays_photo60.html

Posted: Nov 13, 2004 @ 06:11:57 by Fraser Darrah

I should have said when submitting a photo of LNWR 2-2-2 No 3020 Cornwall that it now resides at the new National Railway  Museum (British) extension "Locomotion" situated at Shildon, County Durham, DL14 1PQ, United Kingdom

Their website is: http://www.nrm.org.uk/external.asp?url=/html/locomotion_pb/main.asp

Best regards

Fraser