1430 LAKE SHORE

1430 'Lake Shore' was built by W L Jennings of Templecombe in the early 1930s, probably 1933. It originally ran at a 9.5" gauge line in Weymouth, Dorset for the 1934 season, but the railway failed very quickly. At some point in was rebuilt by R C Hammett, and is next recorded at Danson Park in Bexley Heath, then as the primary motive power at the new 9.5" Brooklands Park Miniature Railway in Lancing, West Sussex in 1965. When that line was regauged to 10.25" in 1967, Lake Shore moved on to the Stonecot Hill Railway in Carshalton that would later become the Queen Mary's Hospital Railway, running there from May 1968. It must have already been regauged to 10.25" at some point because that line was always 10.25". It was later sold to Michael Croft, then to the Theberton Railway near Saxmundham in Suffolk. This is the most recent record we have.