14XX 0-4-2T No. 1466

  • Overhaul beckons for GWS pioneer No. 1466

    Overhaul beckons for GWS pioneer No. 1466

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    DIDCOT Railway Centre’s Black Saint Weekend provided a final opportunity to see the Great Western Society’s (GWS) pioneer locomotive – ‘14XX’ 0-4-2T No. 1466 – on site before its departure for a £300,000 overhaul. The former Newton Abbot ‘auto tank’ provided the foundation stone for all future GWS activities when, in April 1964, it became the…

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