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HWH - Cawfields Quarry loco "The Varney"

HWH - Cawfields Quarry loco "The Varney"
Cawfields Quarry loco at Town Foot, about where Potts Plant Hire is now [date of image - not known] The CQR was laid in 1905, and had several steam and IC locomotives.
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The loco was built in 1902 by Kerr Stuart for work on the construction of the dam at Lake Vyrnwy in Wales, and is named after the reservoir. ["Sidar" class, 0-4-0 T, works no 748 of 1902] {only problem with that date is Lake Vyrnwy was built in the 1880s} Apparently the local name for her was "The Varney" ... suspected scrapped in the 1930s after developing problems with her firebox.

There is a very similar loco "Diana" at Threkeld Mining Museum in the Lake District.

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 StoneRoad2013
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I found further information here :-
mattditchblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/cawfields-quarry-railway.html
including a description of the walk from the main line station to Cawfields Quarry.
[posted 2nd January 2021]
6 months ago. Edited 6 months ago.
 Jean Paul Capdeville
Jean Paul Capdeville club
trés belle image et texte trés intéréssant.
6 months ago.

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