Early Days ⁽⁷⁾

Mr. J. Ramsbottom

1858 — DX Goods ⁽³⁾
1863 — 4ft Shunter ⁽³⁾
1870 — Special Tank ⁽²⁾

Mr. F.W. Webb

1873 — Coal Engine ⁽⁴⁾
1880 — 18in Goods ⁽⁵⁾
1881 — Special DX ⁽²⁾
1881 — Coal Tanks ⁽²⁾
1893 — ‘A’ class ⁽²⁾
1894 — Crane Tank ⁽²⁾
1896 — Dock Tank ⁽²⁾
1901 — ‘B’ class ⁽²⁾
1903 — 1400 Class ⁽²⁾

Mr. G. Whale

1904 — ‘C’ class ⁽³⁾
1904 — ‘E’ class ⁽³⁾
1906 — ‘D’ class ⁽²⁾
1906 — ‘F’ class ⁽²⁾
1906 — ‘G’ class ⁽¹⁾
1912 — ‘G1’ class ⁽⁵⁾
1906 — 19in Goods ⁽³⁾

Mr. C.J. Bowen Cooke

1911 — 1185 class ⁽²⁾

Capt. H.P.M. Beames

1923 — 380 class ⁽²⁾

Ex GCR

1919 — ‘MM’ class ⁽²⁾

‘Lion’ 0-4-2

Click on picture for bigger image.   LNWRS Photo Ref 9916

‘Lion’, the star of the film ‘Titfield Thunderbolt’, is fortunately still with us. An 0-4-2 built for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway (LMR) , she was a goods engine, then later installed at Princes Dock, Liverpool, pumping water. The story of how she was discovered and rescued by Liverpool Engineering Society in 1929 and later restored to pristine glory by the LMS is one of the most heart-warming stories of preservation. Her chronology is:-

Still preserved, ‘Lion’ is now over 160 years old, having passed into a new Millennium.