WELSH Highland Heritage Railway’s (WHHR) ex-WDLR Baldwin 10-12-D No. 794 (BLW44699/1917), restored ‘as’WHR No. 590 (picture, RM Headline News, June), was launched into service at Gelert’s Farm on May 27.
The locomotive returned to Britain in 1985 following post-First World War military service in India. Early restoration work undertaken for its owners, the Imperial War Museum (IWM), was abandoned and No. 794 was placed on loan to what is now WHHR in 2003.
Following protracted efforts to return the loco to operation, restoration was finally completed, April) of No. 794 by an IWM representative to Welsh Highland Railway Ltd chairman, Graham Farr.
