Port Talbot Railway 0-6-0ST No. 813
Bridgnorth, Shropshire, UK 		Location: Severn Valley Railway
Status: Repairs
Posted: Mar 8, 2026 @ 20:03:07 by Russell Newman
The ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813, has been fully painted into full GWR Green livery after its stint in as National Coal Board No. 11, and will be running during the Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Steam Gala from the 16th to 19th of April 2026, and during the summer season No. 813 will work summer Saturday services with a short rake of GWR Coaches.
Posted: Oct 15, 2025 @ 12:10:57 by Russell Newman
The ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813, is visiting the West Somerset Railway for their Autumn Steam Festival from the 17th to 19th of October 2025.
Posted: Jul 30, 2025 @ 12:07:33 by Russell Newman
With its repairs and overhaul nearly completed and its brand new saddle tank ready for fitment, the ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813, will return to traffic at the Severn Valley Railway during their Autumn Steam Gala from the 18th to 21st of September 2025, where it will run in its National Coal Board livery as NCB No. 11, a livery it carried when it worked at the Backworth Colliery. This is a temporary paint job until it returns to its usual Great Western livery later in the year.
Posted: Jul 12, 2024 @ 11:07:31 by Russell Newman
The ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813, is to have its boiler worked on to see if its 10 year boiler ticket can be re-newed and it is also having a brand new saddle tank built to replace the other one which is now beyond repair.
Posted: Apr 8, 2024 @ 13:04:46 by Russell Newman
The ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813, will sadly not be ready to take part in the Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Steam Gala, as it is still undergoing extensive repairs, and it has now been discovered that it has a leaking saddle tank which work now needs to be done to sort that out before the locomotive can return to traffic.
Posted: Mar 14, 2024 @ 12:03:30 by Russell Newman
The repairs to ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813, are progressing well as the new dragbox and frame stretcher casting have been fitted, and the trailing wheelset reinstated on the locomotive. It is hoped that No. 813 will return to service at the Severn Valley Railway in time for their Spring Steam Gala from the 18th to 21st of April 2024.
Posted: May 31, 2023 @ 06:05:44 by Russell Newman
Having suffered a broken rear frame since Spring 2022, the ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813 is now in need of a new drag box which has been cast and is waiting machining. The GWR 813 Preservation Fund will be launching an appeal to raise £15000 needed to finish the work needed which a Crowdfunder appeal will be online soon which details can be found on their website and social media. It is hoped that No. 813 will return to service on the Severn Valley Railway soon.
Posted: Apr 26, 2022 @ 15:04:48 by Russell Newman
The ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813 which was ment to be visiting the South Devon Railway for their 150th anniversary celebrations has had to be cancelled due to it being failed with a problem during the Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Steam Gala.
Posted: Mar 20, 2022 @ 07:03:49 by Russell Newman
The ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813 will be visiting the South Devon Railway for the line’s 150th anniversary celebrations from the 30th of April to the 2nd of May 2022.
Posted: Nov 21, 2021 @ 06:11:14 by Russell Newman
The ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813 is visiting the Telford Steam Railway to be extra motive power for their Polar Express Train Ride over the Christmas season there.
Posted: Jul 11, 2021 @ 06:07:46 by Russell Newman
The former Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813 visiting the Mid Norfolk Railway for the 2021 season.
Posted: Nov 10, 2019 @ 09:11:17 by Russell Newman
After spending most of the year at Didcot ex Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813 has returned home to the Severn Valley Railway.
Posted: Aug 30, 2019 @ 09:08:27 by Jack Spencer
Former Port Talbot No. 813 will be making her fourth visit to Didcot Railway Centre during October. She will be taking part in a Timeline Events charter on 13th October.
Posted: Jun 23, 2019 @ 05:06:13 by Russell Newman
After its visit to the Tanfield Railway No. 813 has now gone on a hired visit to Beamish Open Air Museum to work at their Rowley Station running line for the summer season.
Posted: Jun 1, 2019 @ 08:06:24 by Russell Newman
Former Port Talbot Railway Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST No. 813 will be visiting the Tanfield Railway as their star visiting locomotive for their Legends of Industry gala from June 14th to 16th 2019.
Posted: Feb 18, 2019 @ 12:02:54 by Russell Newman
In a surprising move No. 813 is to visit the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel & Wakes Colne in Essex as their first ever visiting locomotive for their Steam Gala Weekend on the 6th and 7th of April 2019.
Posted: Oct 18, 2018 @ 13:10:29 by Russell Newman
No. 813 will be visiting the Spa Valley Railway over the Christmas season there this December.
Posted: Oct 7, 2018 @ 06:10:11 by Russell Newman
No. 813 is visiting the Battlefield Line Railway where it is joining South Devon base Small Prairie 2-6-2T No. 5542 and 0-6-0PT No. 6412 a GWR theme Autumn Steam Gala weekend there on the 13th and 14th of October. Then No. 813 is then heading to visit the Elsecar Heritage Railway on the 31st for their Home from the Front event marking 100 years since the end of World War One.
Posted: May 30, 2018 @ 10:05:40 by Russell Newman
Port Talbot Railway 0-6-0ST No. 813 has been added as a special second visiting locomotive to the line up at the Epping Ongar Railway for there Steam Gala from June 8th to the 10th 2018. Where it will join Churnet Valley base S160 2-8-0 No. 5197 there.
Posted: May 11, 2018 @ 05:05:58 by Russell Newman
Former Port Talbot Railway 0-6-0ST No. 813 is down at the Bluebell Railway this month as its to be the star attraction there Branch Line Weekend on the 18th to 20th of May 2018.
Posted: Jan 16, 2018 @ 19:01:52 by Robert Alexander
Some specs. from book by H.C. Casserley "Preserved Locomotives" Cyls.:16"x24", Dr.Whs.:48", Wt.:44 (long) tons,Boiler Pres.:160 psi., T.E.@80% = 16,384 lbs.(85% = 17,410 lbs.)
Posted: Nov 4, 2016 @ 13:11:13 by Russell Newman
813 is back in service at the Severn Valley Railway following compeltion of its overhaul.
Posted: Dec 27, 2006 @ 17:12:03 by Steve Frost
A rare survivor of a pre-grouping engine which was absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1923. It was built for the Port Talbot Railway of South Wales to a standard Hudswell Clarke design and was PTR No. 26 before the Great Western got their hands on it. It then went through the usual 'Westernisation' process, receiving a typical GWR cab and bunker and the obligatory brass safety valve cover, in this case perched on top of the dome. It makes the loco look ridiculous. As usual, non-standard types soon got the chop and this one was saved by, yet again, the coal industry. It was bought by Backworth colliery in Northumberland, and moved back north in the 1930's, becoming No 12 on their system. On Nationalisation it became the property of the National Coal Board and was renumbered again as number 11 until withdrawal in 1967. Since preservation it has been based on the Severn Valley Railway, but has visited other preserved railways, too, in its GWR incarnation.
Posted: Feb 15, 2003 @ 03:02:32 by warwar