SR, ‘Terrier’, 0-6-0T, W14 ‘Bembridge’ – Era 3 (R3847)
Entering service with the LB&SCR as No. 78 Knowle, the locomotive was moved into storage by the Southern Railway in September 1935, but when the Isle of Wight Railway found itself with a shortage of light engines, Knowle was overhauled, fitted with an extended bunker and shipped to the island in May 1929, taking the number W4 and the name Bembridge. Push-pull equipment was fitted and the Terrier worked the lighter lines out of Newport, being renumbered as W14 in April 1932. The opening of a bigger 26ft turntable at Bembridge in 1936 allowed heavier 4-4-2T O2 locomotives to work the smaller lines and W14 Bembridge became surplus to requirements, being returned to the mainland in May that year.
Description
Tech Specs
- Item Length – Without Packaging (cm)
- 10.5
- Item Scale
- 1:76 Scale 00 Gauge
- Finish
- Painted
- Gauge
- OO
- DCC Status
- DCC Ready 6 pin socket
- Operator
- SR
- Designer
- William Stroudley
- Wheel Configuration
- 0-6-0T
- Livery
- Olive Green
- Minimum Curve (mm)
- Radius 1
- Motor
- 3 Pole Skew wound
- Class
- A1/A1X ‘Terriers’
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