0-4-0WT Number 4127 left the JA Maffei loco works in Munich in 1925 and was delivered to M. Strass, Karlsruhe, for Gebr. Wunsch, Forbach.

It later it passed to Karl Epple at Forchheim and was their loco No. 5 where it is believed it suffered shell damage during WW 2. It was seen out of use at Karl Epple’s in 1964/5.

There are reports of it being in the USA, specifically in Seattle, and/or with Arthur Seiffert in Hopewell Junction NY, although this is unclear.

Whatever its history in the USA, it is next recorded in 1990 at the Frövi Machine & Estate Light Railway Museum near Orebro in Sweden from where it was sold to an English owner in March 2006.  Initially seen on the Quarry Railway at Hollycombe, Liphook, Hampshire before being purchased by a consortium of L&B railway Trustees in 2007 for use on the L&B.



After further overhaul and restoration was carried out in North Devon including a repaint in early L&B livery,  this well travelled loco - now named "Sid" continuing the tradition of the L&B naming its steam locomotives after Devon 3-letter rivers - entered passenger service in August 2007. After handling the bulk of steam train operation in 2007/08 she was withdrawn from service in August 2008 and left site in early January 2009 to have work carried out to the cylinders, wheels and boiler. Sid returned to Woody Bay in September 2009.

Sid (right) at Woody Bay with Axe, 19 September 2009