THE Mangapps Railway Museum has purchased Class 04 No. D2203 from the Industrial Rolling Stock Group.
The Drewry shunter, which was put up for sale in February, arrived at its new home from the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway on March 28.
No. D2203 was one of four Class 04s built with cowcatchers and side skirts for use on the Wisbech & Upwell Tramway, as well as at Ipswich Docks. Mangapps Railway Museum, aware of the locomotive’s importance in East Anglian railway history as it is the only survivor of the small fleet which carried these features, intends to return it to this condition.
Delivered as No. 11103 in 1952 and renumbered in 1958, the locomotive was initially based at March for use on the Wisbech & Upwell Tramway, before moving to Yarmouth and then Norwich, after which it went to Hereford from where it was withdrawn in 1966. After a spell in industrial use at Hemel Hempstead Concrete Company, during which time it operated for a period
