Steam locomotion contrasts
Seen in action on demonstration sections of track at the science Museum’s outstation at Wroughton are two unique and contrasting locomotives. The larger of the two is a replica of Richard Trevithick’s high-pressure steam locomotive of 1804. The original worked at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The replica locomotive was built in 1981 and currently resides at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.
Alongside is No.4 ‘The Bug’, a narrow-gauge 0-4-0T+Tender locomotive built for the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in 1926. After being sold by the RHDR in 1934, it had a later career with other leisure railways before being found derelict in a Belfast scrapyard in 1972. The locomotive was reacquired by the RHDR and restored to steam.
September 1987
Rollei 35 camera
Kodachrome ASA64 film.
Steam locomotion contrasts
Seen in action on demonstration sections of track at the science Museum’s outstation at Wroughton are two unique and contrasting locomotives. The larger of the two is a replica of Richard Trevithick’s high-pressure steam locomotive of 1804. The original worked at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The replica locomotive was built in 1981 and currently resides at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.
Alongside is No.4 ‘The Bug’, a narrow-gauge 0-4-0T+Tender locomotive built for the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in 1926. After being sold by the RHDR in 1934, it had a later career with other leisure railways before being found derelict in a Belfast scrapyard in 1972. The locomotive was reacquired by the RHDR and restored to steam.
September 1987
Rollei 35 camera
Kodachrome ASA64 film.