25-260 Furness Railway 0-4-0 No. 3 'Old Copperknob'
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Description
Taken 28/04/25 at the National Railway Museum, York. From wikipedia "It was built in 1846 by Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy of Liverpool,[5] a company with which the Furness Railway's first locomotive superintendent James Ramsden had been an apprentice. It is an 0-4-0 version of Edward Bury's popular bar-frame design of the period, with iron bar frames and inside cylinders, and is historically significant as the only survivor of this type in the United Kingdom. It is also one of the few preserved engines from the Furness Railway, whose Indian red livery it carries. It handled all traffic on the Furness Railway with three similar engines for around six years. Latterly it was used for shunting around the docks at Barrow-in-Furness and on local duties, being withdrawn in 1900 after nearly 55 years of service. It is now housed in the National Railway Museum, York. It has shrapnel wounds from German bombs, acquired during World War II when it was displayed in a glass pavilion at Barrow-in-Furness station. In February 2007, No. 3 had one of its shedplates stolen at York. In 2014, it was placed on loan to the Dresden Transport Museum in Germany to take part in an exhibition celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Leipzig–Dresden railway due to its similarities to early locomotives built for the line" -
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What does this mean? CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/50576141@N03/54866126070/
Resource type: Image
Added by: Edmund Anon
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Picture Taken: 2025-04-28T00:00:00 -
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