MERRIE ENGLAND
Works Number
2006
Delivered
Gauge
10¼"
Prototype class
Outline
Standard Gauge
Wheel arrangement
4-4-2
Cylinder arrangement
Motive power
Steam
Comments
'Merrie England' was a Curwen Atlantic delivered from new to Weymouth in 1953, painted in an impractical cream livery and named in honour of Councillor England of Weymouth Borough Council . It had strange streamlined shrouds added for reasons unknown by a manager at Curwen's. It was not liked at Weymouth and either remained their on emergency duty or was returned to David Curwen Ltd. In 1964 it was sold to David Murcott of Sutton Coldfield, moving with the family to Goginan near Aberystwyth, where it lay disused in a shed waiting for a running line that was never completed. In 2016 it was bought by Peter Bowers and moved to his Royal Victoria Railway, where it is now under restoration.
Location | Date Range | Edit |
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London and the South East |