Great Western Railway 0-4-0VBT No. 151
Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK 		Location: South Devon Railway
Status: Display
Posted: Jul 20, 2007 @ 06:07:30 by Andrew Wilson
She was constructed by Sara & Co. of Penryn, Cornwall in 1868 for the South Devon Railway, which was absorbed by the Great Western in 1876, when “Tiny” acquired the GW number, 2180. She worked the sharply curved dock lines in Plymouth and at Newton Abbot until 1883. She survived because she was subsequently used to power machinery at Newton Abbot railway works until 1927. For many years she was displayed at Newton Abbot station, but now she is housed in the South Devon Railway Museum at Buckfastleigh. 18th July 2007
Posted: Jul 19, 2007 @ 14:07:21 by Steve Frost
This is, sadly, the only surviving example of an original 7 foot gauge loco in the UK. There are replicas of others, but 'Tiny' is the only real survivor of the mass scrapping of the Great Western's once magnificent fleet of broad gauge locos. 'Tiny' is, of course, completely untypical of what a broad gauge loco was like, and was a contractor's loco used in construction of the Bristol and Exeter Railway. So we have to look at the replicas like 'North Star' at Swindon, Fire Fly at Didcot and 'Iron Duke' of the NRM to see what the main line locos were like.