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No. 5526 is a GWR 4575 Class or 'Small Prairie' 2-6-2T steam locomotive built for the Great Western Railway (GWR). They were designed as small mixed traffic branch tank engine locomotives, mainly used on branch lines all over the Great Western Railway system.

History[]

No. 5526 was built at Swindon Works in 1928 and worked from many sheds in Devon and Cornwall: St Blazey, Bodmin, Exeter, Plymouth Millbay, Laira and Truro before being withdrawn from service from Westbury in 1962.

No. 5526 was sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry scrap in November 1962. In 1985 is was purchased and became the 166th locomotive to be saved from the Barry scrapyard. It was moved to Buckfastleigh, where it was restored to working order for the South Devon Railway.

Over the years the locomotive has been loaned to various other heritage railways such as the Battlefield Line Railway in early 2020 and it is now currently on loan to the Gwili Railway. No. 5526's boiler ticket is set to expire in 2027.

Trivia[]

  • No. 5526 is one of eleven surviving members of the GWR 4575 Class in preservation.

Gallery[]

Preserved steam locomotives in Devon
Museums Devon Railway Centre No. 14 Rebecca
Tiverton Museum GWR No. 1442 Tivvy Bumper
St. Marychurch Bygones Museum Falmouth Docks No. 5 Patricia
Leaky Finders Ltd. BR No. 35028 Clan LineGWR No. 9629GWR No. 1638 • S&L No. 47 CarnarvonSR No. 541
Heritage Railways South Devon Railway GWR No. 1420 BulliverGWR No. 5526GWR No. 5542LT No. 92GWR No. 6412GWR No. 6430GWR No. 3205BR No. 4160GWR No. 1369 • EGW No. 1 AshleyLee Moor Tramway No. 2 • British Gypsum Lady Angela • NCB Glendower • GWR Tiny
Exmoor Steam Railway ExmoorDenzilLorna DooneSAR No. 115SAR No. 77
Dartmoor Railway NCB Newmarket S. 103 Firefly
Dartmouth Steam Railway GWR No. 5239 Goliath • GWR No. 4277 Hercules • GWR No. 4555 WarriorGWR No. 3803 • USATC No. 2253 OmahaGWR No. 2873 • BR No. 75014 Braveheart • GWR No. 7827 Lydham Manor
Plym Valley Railway Byfield Quarries No. 2 Byfield • HOS Fablok TKh49 No. 5374 VanguardSSEB No. 4 (No. 705)W. G. Bagnall No. 3121 • British Sugar Corp. Albert
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway SR No. 762 Lyn (replica) • Vallée Heureuse & Le Haut-Banc Quarries Axe • Tongaat Sugar Sir George Newnes
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