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Baldwin 4-6-2 No 2
Image by Peter Glyn
No 2 was built by Baldwin of Philadelphia in the USA in 1930. It spent its working life hauling limestone near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. In 1974 it ran away driver-less and after travelling a few miles it left the track and was wrecked. It was shipped to Liverpool and put into store at the BMR. It is a 4-6-2 tender locomotive weighing 47 tons. Rebuilding began in 1990 and it finally entered traffic in 1997. The rebuild was extensive but now is running on the line regularly.
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