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    First engine out of Barry hauls its last train – for now

    Jan 18, 2022 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones

    MIDLAND 4F 0-6-0 No. 43924 – which made history as the first of 213 locomotives to be rescued from Dai Woodham’s Barry scrapyard – has bowed out of Keighley & Worth Valley Railway traffic after its extended boiler certificate expired on New Year’s Eve.

    The 4F, known as The Big Goods, went out on a high note with a week of hauling six-coach trains on the Mince Pie Specials, even with two superheaters blocked off.

    Built at the Midland Railway works

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