Pixie - Cadeby Leicestershire
Narrow gauge steam engine "Pixie"on the village sign along with All Saints church.
(Pixie worked with the Cranford Quarry until 1962 when the quarry shut down their railway and had her locked away in a shed. Vicar Rev Teddy Boston www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2z716n bought her soon after and brought her to work on his Cadeby Light Railway, which he built in the rectory garden
Pixie was the star attraction at Cadeby, riding tourists along a short section of track. Teddy is shown riding her in the chancel east stained glass window www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/MH4u40
She is also on the church weathervane www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/t9dUHa
After Rev Boston died in 1986, his widow Audrey continued the operation of the light railway until 2005. Teddy's collection was split up and sold, with Pixie being bought by a private owner associated with the Moseley Railway Trust, who intended on overhauling her.
In July 2019 she was bought by the Richmond Light Railway with the intention to finally finishing her restoration back to operating condition.
Pixie - Cadeby Leicestershire
Narrow gauge steam engine "Pixie"on the village sign along with All Saints church.
(Pixie worked with the Cranford Quarry until 1962 when the quarry shut down their railway and had her locked away in a shed. Vicar Rev Teddy Boston www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2z716n bought her soon after and brought her to work on his Cadeby Light Railway, which he built in the rectory garden
Pixie was the star attraction at Cadeby, riding tourists along a short section of track. Teddy is shown riding her in the chancel east stained glass window www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/MH4u40
She is also on the church weathervane www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/t9dUHa
After Rev Boston died in 1986, his widow Audrey continued the operation of the light railway until 2005. Teddy's collection was split up and sold, with Pixie being bought by a private owner associated with the Moseley Railway Trust, who intended on overhauling her.
In July 2019 she was bought by the Richmond Light Railway with the intention to finally finishing her restoration back to operating condition.