Kent & East Sussex Railway-based ‘A1X’ 0-6-0T No. 32678 will receive the larger Isle-of Wight-type bunker it carried when it first came to the pre-preservation KESR in 1940 as part of a overhaul at Rolvenden.
The 1880-built ‘Terrier’ and sister engine No. 3 Bodiam (BR No. 32670) are the subject of a joint £150,000 appeal between the KESR and the locos’ owner, the Terrier Trust.
The Terrier 150 project aims to have both Stroudley-designed locos back in traffic by 2022 in readiness for decade-long series of activities to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the LBSCR class.
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Next February marks 80 years since No. 32678, as Southern Railway No. 2678, first arrived at the KESR, having been hired to cover a ‘temporary’ locomotive shortage; it stayed until 1958!
Read more in the June 2019 issue of The Railway Magazine – on sale now!
