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COLOUR RAIL
Locomotive: Cardiff Railway 0‐4‐0ST Nos. 5/6 (GWR/BR Nos. 1338/9)
Gauge: ‘OO’
Proposed by: Richard Maby
What
is
it?
Back in the early 1970s I was enjoying my newfound motorcycling freedom, and on one occasion my route crossed the Western Region main line at Bleadon, south of Weston-super-Mare. Just over the bridge was the closed (1964) Bleadon and Uphill station. By then privately occupied, I was surprised to find the diminutive station hosting an equally diminutive saddle tank 0‐4‐0. The station formed the base of the (now defunct) Yieldingtree Railway Museum which subsequently housed a number of exhibits. The tiny tank locomotive was ex-GWR No. 1338, which was originally one of a pair built by Kitsons of Leeds and featuring unusual Kitson-Hawthorn valve gear. The build date was 1898, and the customer the aptly modest-sized Cardiff Railway (the smallest railway absorbed by the GWR in the 1923 Grouping). Originally No. 5 with its sibling No. 6, the pair were renumbered Nos. 1338/9 by the GWR.