NSR No.2 - on the move.
Delving back into Alan Hall's collection again, I came across this shot of the solitary preserved ex North Staffordshire Railway steam loco. No2 was an L class 0-6-2T and was built the year of 'The Grouping', 1923, when the NSR became a constituent part of the LMS. From memory, the 'L' class were the old company's most powerful locomotives.
No. 2, after service with the LMS, passed into industrial service with the NCB in the Lancashire coal field, where latterly it was stored at Walkden Workshops. Being a significant loco it was acquired for the nation and became part of the National Collection. Though it has been loaned out to various railways and venues, No.2's never steamed in preservation.
If I'm not mistaken, the above picture was taken as the loco was being removed from Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum prior to being moved to the Churnet Valley Railway at Cheddleton in the 1990s, which one would have thought would have been the ideal home for it.
NSR No.2 - on the move.
Delving back into Alan Hall's collection again, I came across this shot of the solitary preserved ex North Staffordshire Railway steam loco. No2 was an L class 0-6-2T and was built the year of 'The Grouping', 1923, when the NSR became a constituent part of the LMS. From memory, the 'L' class were the old company's most powerful locomotives.
No. 2, after service with the LMS, passed into industrial service with the NCB in the Lancashire coal field, where latterly it was stored at Walkden Workshops. Being a significant loco it was acquired for the nation and became part of the National Collection. Though it has been loaned out to various railways and venues, No.2's never steamed in preservation.
If I'm not mistaken, the above picture was taken as the loco was being removed from Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum prior to being moved to the Churnet Valley Railway at Cheddleton in the 1990s, which one would have thought would have been the ideal home for it.