KWVR could welcome No. 76077 one day
I READ the article,‘Piecing together the 76077 jigsaw’ in issue 275 with interest, but was surprised no mention was made of the proposal by the Standard 4 Locomotive Preservation Society in the early 1970s to purchase BR Standard 4MT 2-6-0 No. 76077 from Barry scrapyard for use on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
Unfortunately for No. 76077,
No. 75078 was found to be in better condition and was purchased instead.
Hopefully one day No. 76077 will make a guest appearance on the Worth Valley to show what might have been.
Elsewhere, the item about the ticket cabinet from Minehead being discovered in California (issue 276) reminded me that in 2015 I was in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Gatlinburg is only a small place (mentioned in the Johnny Cash song, A Boy Named Sue) but has a number of visitor attractions. Outside one, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, was a sculpture of a skeleton on a motorcycle made from scrap metal.
I was very much surprised to see the rear lamp of the motorcycle was a British Railways locomotive headlamp. It was embossed BR but I cannot remember which region.
I have often wondered how it found its way to Tennessee. I did not see any other railway relics, British or American.
James Rogers, Harrogate, North Yorkshire.