5080 Ogmore Castle
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The 5080 Ogmore Castle is a Castle class locomotive, originally built as Ogmore Castle in May 1939 and renamed Defiant in January 1941.
Its first shed allocation was Old Oak Common, then Cardiff Canton in August 1950 and Carmarthen in March 1959. Its last shed allocation was Llanelly.
It was withdrawn in April 1963 and acquired by Woodham Brothers in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in October 1963.[1] It was sold to the Standard Gauge Steam Trust (now renamed Tyseley Locomotive Works), initially for spare parts for the No.7029 Clun Castle, and left as the 62nd departure from Barry in August 1974.
Its restoration was completed in June 1988, and it ran for a number of years. After its boiler certificate expired, it was sent to be displayed at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, where it presently remains.
[edit] References
- ^ "The Great Western Archive, The Barry Scrapyard story, part 1". Greta Western Society. http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/barry1.htm.
[edit] External links
- The Great Western Archive, 'Castle' class details, 5050 - 5099
- Defiant, Tyseley Locomotive Works, Vintage Trains, Birmingham Railway Museum
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