It was manufactured by The Horsely Coal & Iron Company in 1833 for hauling wagons of coal from the mines up the 1-in-17 (5.9%) Swannington incline.
The engine is a horizontal type with single cylinder of 18.25 in. bore and 3 ft. 6 in. stroke which worked at 80 lb per sq in.
The engine was unusual for the time in having a piston valve.
Swannington incline was operated until 1948 and the engine was donated by British Railways to York Railway Museum in 1951.
References
Clinker, C.R. (1977) The Leicester & Swannington Railway Bristol: Avon Anglia Publications & Services. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society Volume XXX, 1954.
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