Fairfield-Mabey 0-4-0WT No. D249 'Willy'
Bream, Gloucestershire, UK 		Location: Flour Mill Works
Status: Operational
Posted: Jul 15, 2026 @ 14:07:04 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy", is now longer located at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway as it has gone on loan to to Bressingham Steam Museum in Norfolk, where it will stay for the rest of the 2026 season, but its registered base where it is located is Flour Mill Works at Bream in Gloucestershire.
Posted: Jun 4, 2026 @ 08:06:12 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy", has since left the Swindon & Cricklade Railway and has relocated on loan to Bressingham Steam Museum in Norfolk, where it will stay for the rest of the 2026 season being their main steam locomotive for their standard gauge line there.
Posted: Nov 22, 2025 @ 10:11:26 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy", will be visiting the Dean Forest Railway for their upcoming Spring Steam Gala on the 28th and 29th of March 2026, and will be reunited with former Great Eastern Railway, 1876 built Class 209 or LNER Y5 0-4-0ST No. 229, for the first time in preservation as they worked together at the National Shipyard in Chepstow, which later became Fairfield Mabey from where they were both rescued in 1982.
Posted: Apr 28, 2025 @ 12:04:01 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy", is visiting the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway for the first time for their Railway 200 Cotswold Festival of Steam from the 24th to 26th of May 2025.
Posted: Mar 4, 2025 @ 12:03:13 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy", is making its first visit to the Kent & East Sussex Railway for their Dwarves of Steam Gala weekend on the 26th and 27th of April 2025.
Posted: Nov 29, 2023 @ 10:11:27 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy", has now been completed as the locomotive is back operational again and has been painted in Maroon Red livery. "Willy", has now gone on loan to the Swindon & Cricklade Railway, where she will be working their Santa Specials over the Christmas season and will be staying on for the 2024 season then too.
Posted: Mar 29, 2023 @ 10:03:26 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy" has now left Mangapps Farm Railway Museum, having come to the end of its boiler ticket and has returned home to the Flour Mill Works at Bream in Gloucestershire for its 10 year overhaul.
Posted: Mar 22, 2022 @ 16:03:53 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy" is currently located at the Mangapps Farm Railway Museum at Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex. Where it has recently been given a extension to its boiler ticket to work another year there.
Posted: Mar 22, 2022 @ 16:03:53 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy" is currently located at the Mangapps Farm Railway Museum at Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex. Where it has recently been given a extension to its boiler ticket to work another year there.
Posted: Nov 21, 2021 @ 06:11:01 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy" has now left the Barry Tourist Railway and has relocated to the Mangapps Railway Museum at Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex where it will remain on loan to them over the winter and possibly into the 2022 season.
Posted: Jun 3, 2021 @ 13:06:49 by Russell Newman
The ex Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT Works No. 3063 "Willy" has moved to the Barry Tourist Railway at Barry Island in Glamorgan, South Wales to be their second main steam locomotive there and will remain to until the end of her boiler ticket next year in 2022.
Posted: Dec 27, 2018 @ 13:12:58 by Russell Newman
Former Fairfield-Mabey Kerr Stuart & Co 0-4-0WT No. D249 "Willy" is currently on loan to the Chasewater Railway in Staffordshire.
Posted: Jul 21, 2009 @ 11:07:03 by Steve Frost
Photographer Ian Smith wrote this about the loco:

"This is one of those "oddballs" of Industrial railway history, where a completely different company builds someone elses design. D249 is indeed a "Borrows" design, but was built by Kerr, Stuart & Co after the former company's demise. I, too, was amazed when I first came across her! Classic "Borrows", but actually Kerr, Stuart!"

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