Bagnalls are on the market and looking for new homes

TWO industrial Bagnall 0-4-0STs were listed for sale in June.

No. 2565 is currently stored on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, its home since 2014. Built in 1936, it spent its working life at the Central Electricity Generating Board’s Hardingstone Road Power Station in Northampton before being bought by a private owner.

It returned to steam after overhaul in 2014, initially at the Northampton & Lamport Railway, but moved to the ‘Middy’ initially for a gala, only to become a resident immediately after.

Last run in December 2021, it now requires a boiler overhaul but is described as “complete and in good order, with vacuum brakes fitted.”

Interested parties should contact Martyn Ashworth on martynhts@ btinternet.com, 01509 219725, or 07798 916115.

The second Bagnall listed is Devonport Dockyard No. 19 (works No. 2962), which is currently stored on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway.

Withdrawn from the dockyard in 1965, it was used as a mobile boiler for the supply of steam to warships until 1968, after which it was bought and moved to Bodmin General in 1969.

It was a stalwart of the early Bodmin heritage railway operations but is not big enough for the steeply-graded line.

Described as in good mechanical order and complete, the boiler requires extensive repairs. Stored under cover, it is for sale “as seen and lying” by sealed bid. Following the sale, it will be required to leave Bodmin within two calendar months. Interested parties should contact Phil Hawke by email at phil. hawke@hotmail.co.uk