‘May’ arrives early at the Middy

The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway has taken delivery of this summer’s guest steam engine with the arrival of Peckett 0-4-0 ST No. 1370, ‘May’.

It is planned that May will go into service with Hudswell Clarke ‘Illingworth’, that has been visiting the railway since last Christmas. The two engines are both planned to be in steam over the Easter weekend.

John Durrant, the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway’s Locomotive Manager said: “The arrival of May continues the Middy’s policy of securing a diverse and interesting range of small industrial and shunting steam engines to haul our passenger trains. The Easter weekend it is planned will see both steam locomotives in service together with the recently arrived Great Eastern Railway Chief Engineer’s Salon coach no 14.”

May was built by Peckett and Sons of Bristol in 1915 and is currently based at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road.