Dinmore Manor - 3850

Dinmore Manor - 3850

Monday 25 January 2016

3850 on the Great Central Railway

The stripping down of 3850 at Toddington has had to take a back seat to the winter maintenance programme for 7820, Dinmore Manor.  Come the first weekend of March, Dinmore Manor will be back in traffic on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, and our attention will be able to return to 3850.   As a brief interlude, I have been sent some slides of 3850 during a visit to the Great Central Railway in January 2011, taken by Ian Wright, which he has kindly agreed to allow us to reproduce here.

From 17th January 2011:

Departing Loughborough with a goods train
Departing Loughborough with a goods train
On Swithland Viaduct
On Swithland Viaduct
3850 with the windcutter rake, crossing small prairie, 5526 on an autocoach at Woodthorpe Bridge
3850 with the windcutter rake, crossing small prairie, 5526 on an autocoach at Woodthorpe Bridge
At Woodthorpe with a goods train

This second batch were taken on 26th January 2011:

With the freight train at Rothley
With the freight train at Rothley
At A6 Road Bridge
At Woodthorpe Bridge with the freight train
At Quorn Station
With 5526 at Quorn Station
This collection of slides provide a perfect illustration of 3850 at work in the preservation era, and Dinmore Manor Locomotive LTD would like to extend our thanks to Ian Wright for allowing us to reproduce these images here.  Hopefully it won't be too long before 3850 is back in steam again.

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