A day at the Brecon Mountain Railway.

We decided to have a run out and ended up at the Brecon Mountain Railway. It is a delightful little railway and one of the engines is this Baldwin Steam loco no 2. It has quite a history. It was originally built at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, USA in July 1930 for the Eastern Province Cement Company, at Port Elizabeth, South Africa where it spent all its working life hauling Limestone. At some point in 1973,  it ran away driverless and de-railed. It was subsequently wrecked and written off by the insurers. It was then purchased by the Brecon Railway as salvage and was shipped to Liverpool as deck cargo then transported to Brecon where it was rebuilt between 1993 and 1997. It is a 4-6-2 tender loco weighing in at 47 tons. It turned out to be a really interesting day out and is well worth a visit!