GWR 7800 Class 7819 ''Hinton Manor''

7819 Hinton Manor
7819 Hinton Manor at Bridgnorth
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Build date February 1939
Specifications
Gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Career
Class 7800 'Manor' Class
Numbers 7819
Withdrawn November 1965

7819 Hinton Manor is a Great Western Railway locomotive part of the Manor Class. It is one of 9 locomotives preserved from the class which originally had 30.

Service

7819 was built by the Great Western Railway in 1939 and was initially allocated to Carmarthen before moving to Oswestry in 1943. It regularly worked the Cambrian Coast Expresses in the 1960s until being withdrawn from service in November 1965 and moved to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.[1]

Preservation

7819 was acquired from Barry in 1973 by the Hinton Manor Fund with help from the Severn Valley Railway Company. Following restoration it entered service in 1977 and also appeared on the main line, including the 1987 Cardigan Bay Express season. It was last steamed at the end of 1994 and then placed in storage awaiting overhaul. After cosmetic restoration, it replaced Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 4930 Hagley Hall as a static exhibit at the Swindon Designer Outlet in 2007.[1] It returned to the SVR in August 2018. Ownership of the locomotive was transferred to the Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust in 2004.[2]

Allocations

First shed Feb 1939 31 Dec 1947 Aug 1950 March 1959 May 1965 Last Shed
Carmarthen Whitchurch Oswestry Oswestry Shrewsbury Shrewsbury

References

  1. 1 2 SVR Charitable Trust 7819 page (Retrieved 30 November 2017)
  2. ↑ Severn Valley Railway News Issue 147
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