22nd August, 2025
Yesterday our L&BR workhorse Pilton rolled out into the summer sunshine resplendent in its new grey livery.
Our ever-hardworking 'paint shop boys' have been busy giving this really useful engine the attention it deserves with a top to bottom, even including the cab, repaint as well as refurbishing the various name and makers plates.
Pilton, named after the former L&BR facility at Barnstaple, is an 0-6-0 150hp diesel mechanical locomotive no.2393 of 1952 and was manufactured for the Drewry Car Company by E.E. Baguley of Burton-on-Trent. It was exported to Victoria Mill (about 110km north of Townsville) Queensland Australia but was out of use by 1989.
Read more on Pilton's international history and journey to us at the L&BR here.
You can see Pilton up close at our Railway 200 Autumn Gala 'Narrow gauge the wider story'