Seen dumped in a yard in Tebay visible from the M6 motorway are the rusting remains of Standard 9F 2-10-0 92219 and 20169
The hulk has now spent fifty odd years decaying out in the open and when you look closely basically consists of frame, boiler, wheels and the cylinder and slide bar castings with virtually all the smaller components long gone.
Locomotive History
The penultimate steam locomotive built by British Railways and entering traffic as late as 1960 it had only five years in service before withdrawal in August 1965, Following withdrawal it was sent to Woodham Brothers, Barry where it languished for twenty years. Sold by Woodhams it left Barry in May 1985 to Peak Rail, later moving to the Midland Railway Centre where it was used as a source of spares for 92214 then being restored at the Midland Railway Centre. In 2012 after another twenty years or so slowly decaying at the Midland Railway Centre it moved to the Stainmore Railway and arrived at the Wensleydale Railway two years later in 2014. It then spent a few more years out in the open before being moved once again to its new home after the Wensleydale railway changed its traction policy and asked some groups to remove there stock from the railway.
20169 was living at the Stainmore railway, Kirby Stephen East for many years before being move to the Wensleydale Railway before once again being moved to its present home at Tebay in December 2020
What the future holds for these locomotives is anyone guess.
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