Railways in Worcestershire

RAILWAYS IN WORCESTERSHIRE
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Walcroft Brothers, Pershore

WALCOFT BROTHERS, Pershore Garages, York Lane, Wick, Pershore

Grid Reference: SO 957452

This site was a motor repair business. The locomotives here were stored out of use and not available for public viewing. They left here on 20th March 1971.

There were two locomotives locomotives here built by the North Wales firm of De Winton.

One was a 3ft 0in gauge 0-4-0VBT (formerly called LLANFAIR) that had worked at Penmaenwawr Granite Quarries, North Wales before being bought for preservation.

The other was previously called KATHLEEN being a 1ft 10 3/4in 0-4-0VBT built in 1877 and formerly at Penrhyn Quarries Ltd, Bethesda, North Wales.

The Industrial Railway Society records both locomotives as being on site in June 1970 and then moving to Brockham Museum in Surrey on 20th March 1971.

No known photos exist of the locomotives whilst in store in Worcestershire.

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