Our Christmas and New Year’s Day Loco

We are pleased to announce our duty loco for the Christmas period will be the Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T ‘Swordfish’ built in 1941 for Stanton Ironworks, later Stewart & Lloyds.

“Swordfish’ is the first of its type to run on the Middy and is coming to us from the Colne Valley Railway and will with us for the winter .

During its working life the locomotive carried the name after a submarine Swordfish, a Class 4 boat (S Class) launched in November 1931 and lost in action in 1940 off Ushant. As an early casualty in the War, it was named Swordfish in a spirit of patriotism.

Works no. 2138 ‘Swordfish’ is one of the youngest locos to appear at he Middy being only 83 years old!