THE Bluebell Railway has sold SR ‘Dock Tank’ No. 30064 to an undisclosed buyer. The ‘Yankee Tank’, which last ran in 1984, has been in store since then – although it was repainted into wartime livery as WD 1959 in 2003.
In a memo, Bluebell Railway Preservation Society chairman Paul Churchman said: “The railway has received an offer to sell No. 30064 to a private individual who wishes to restore it and have it running in the next five-six years. Like many heritage railways we have so much rolling stock and many locos, we simply will never be able to restore them all, let alone maintain everything we have running now.