Teddy returns to its ‘home’

PECKETT Yorktown class 0-4-0ST No. 2012 of 1941 Teddy made a homecoming to the Battlefield Line at Shackerstone – a line where it was based in its early preservation days.

Teddy, built for the Ministry of Supply, took up residence at Shackerstone in 1972 following its acquisition by the Reverend ER ‘Teddy’ Boston, whose famous Cadeby Light Railway was just a short distance away.

It was here that the locomotive was returned to steam for the first time in preservation by members of the Lutterworth Railway Society.

By 1982, there was little work for the Peckett, which moved to Cadeby for static display. It remained there until 2005, when it was sold and moved to the Lavender Line at Isfield. Two years later it was back in steam but was sold again in 2011.

The move from its previous base at the Chasewater Railway brings it back to within a stone’s throw of its current owner’s home, which will facilitate an immediate overhaul. It is named in honour of the Rev Boston.