Ben Alder. Doesn't the thought of scrapping it still make you weep? Oh, for a bag of cash and a time machine.
Preservation history is littered with so many ‘what ifs’ but Ben Alder is another matter. It had spent 14 years in store and its future seemed secure. And then, because it had a Caledonian-style boiler, it was no longer a suitable candidate for preservation and was scrapped.
That must surely mean that those and North British Railway No. 256 and Caledonian Railway No. 123 – must be the epitome of originality?
