CORRIS Railway’s (CR) new-build Falcon 0-4-2ST No. 10 was delivered to the railway on August 30, following completion at Alan Keef Ltd’s works.
The finished loco (when demonstrated in steam last September at Keef’s it was incomplete and in undercoat – RM, November 2022) was unveiled to the press and project supporters on September 8 and hauled its first public trains the following day. It was scheduled to work passenger trains on the remaining Saturdays and Sundays in September and to be in operation on October 7, 14 and 21.
The project to build a new Falcon 0-4-2ST to join CR’s near-replica Kerr, Stuart‘Tattoo’ class 0-4-2ST commenced over a dozen years ago. The CR now has updated interpretations of both types of loco that worked on the original line, almost ‘twins’of the two original Corris locos now preserved as part of theTalyllyn Railway’s (TR) fleet, Hughes 0-4-2ST No. 3 (rebuilt in the 1920s by CR and incorporating components from CR Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and subsequently named Sir Haydn by the TR) and Kerr, Stuart ‘Tattoo’0-4-2ST 4047/1921 (originally Corris No. 4, now TR No. 4 Edward Thomas).
For the first time since the
