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    Dean Forest Railway buys second pannier ‘in sequence’

    Jan 15, 2019 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    BODMIN RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE

    THE Dean Forest Railway has bought WR pannier No. 9682 from the GWR Preservation Group at Southall.

    1940-built GWR Toad brake No. 17488 is also included in the deal.

    A team of members has been busy getting No. 9682, which is currently dismantled, ready to move to Norchard, where it will join classmate No. 9681 – the overhaul of which is progressing well and will return to service in 2019.

    However, most of

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