THE solesurvivingGWR‘Collett Goods’locomotivecouldsteam againattheSouthDevon Railway(SDR), afteragreement wasreachedbetweenthe0-6-0’s ownersandtheheritageline.
Under the terms of the agreement with the 2251 Locomotive Fund, the South Devon Railway Ltd, a Charitable Community Benefit Society will become the custodians of No. 3205 for the next 50 years.
Following acquisition by the 2251 Locomotive Fund from BR in 1965, No. 3205 became the second locomotive to arrive at Buckfastleigh for preservation later that year.Two years later, the‘2251’became the first loco on the fledgling Severn Valley Railway (SVR). No. 3205 left the SVR in March 1987, initially to theWest Somerset Railway before returning to Buckfastleigh to what by then had become the SDR in 1998.