On Saturday 12 August Jeremy Martin’s Richmond Light Railway held its annual charity ticket-only open day in aid of Riding For The Disabled.
The star in the morning of the show was the 2ft gauge ex-Penrhyn, which is different to the rest of these engines as it carries a second-hand boiler assembly from 1928 Marshall portable No. 83501. The boiler was cheaper to buy than a new one from Hunslet at the time and was successfully fitted in the slate quarrys' workshop at Coed-y-Pore in 1935. When the lagging is off you can actually see where the crankshaft horn brackets were cut off.
