Brookfield Foundry 0-6-0PT No. 'Brookfield'
Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, UK 		Location: Mangapps Railway Museum
Status: Operational
Posted: Oct 16, 2024 @ 14:10:54 by Russell Newman
The ex Admiralty Machinery Depot and Brookfield Foundry Bagnall built 0-6-0PT No. 2613 "Brookfield", is set to return to traffic hauling its first public trains at Mangapps Railway Museum again for the first time since 2005, during their End of Season Gala over the weekend of the 26th and 27th of October 2024.
Posted: Sep 4, 2024 @ 14:09:00 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on ex Admiralty Machinery Depot and Brookfield Foundry Bagnall built 0-6-0PT No. 2613 "Brookfield", has now been completed, having had major boiler work carried out and firebox repairs and has had a full repaint. Now operational again "Brookfield" will soon undergo steam tests along with testing and running in trials.
Posted: Jun 14, 2020 @ 06:06:23 by Russell Newman
The ex Admiralty Machinery Depot and Brookfield Foundry Bagnall built 0-6-0PT No. 2613 "Brookfield" is currently undergoing a heavy overhaul and rebuild which is at a advance stage and her boiler is currently at the North Norfolk Railway’s boiler engineering shop at Weybourne being rebuilt. It is hoped that "Brookfield" will be in steam again at the Mangapps Railway Museum in the spring of 2021.
Posted: Oct 8, 2018 @ 12:10:29 by Russell Newman
The former Brookfield Foundry Bagnall built 0-6-0PT "Brookfield" has a interesting history. No. 2613 was originally designed as a meter gauge locomotive for export to Turkey. Part way in its construction it was commandeered as part of the war effort and built as a standard gauge locomotive. It was sent new to the Admiralty stores at Stoke on Trent where it was used as a shunting engine there till 1945. Afterwards it remained in use there on the same site, which became Brookfield Foundry until 1961. The locomotive was put up for auction in 1983 when the foundry closed in the same year. It was sold for preservation in the same year. After 3 years of restoration the locomotive moved to the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway where it entered service in 1986. In 1993 the locomotive visited both the Gwili Railway and the Foxfield Railway before it moved to the Mangapps Railway Museum the same year. Where "Brookfield has been ever since and is currently under a major overhaul.
Posted: May 29, 2017 @ 13:05:05 by Russell Newman
Former Brookfield Foundry 0-6-0PT "Brookfield" is undergoing its overhaul to working order in the workshop at Mangapps. Its unknown when it will be back in steam by but best guess would be possibly 2019?
Posted: Jul 14, 2007 @ 08:07:35 by Steve Llanso
Data for this locomotive (taken from the Essex Steam website) are as follows: 13" x 18" cylinders pressed to 180 psi and turning 35" drivers. Grate area is 10 1/4 sq ft, firebox area is 52 sq ft, and total heating surface comes to 470 sq ft. Weight in service 28 tons 5 cwt. Built in 1940 as one of 5.