Contractors' 0-6-0 saddletank locomotive, SWANSEA.
Manning Wardle & Co. 'K' class 0-6-0 saddletank, SWANSEA, No. 595 of 1877. The locomotive is pictured at Grendon Underwood when working on the Princes Risborough to Grendon Underwood section of the Great Western and Great Central joint line - built by Louis P. Nott between 1902 and 1905. SWANSEA had previously been named MEDBOURNE No. 6, and had been in the ownership of Logan & Hemingway. The crew stand posed on and around the locomotive - note the young girl in the arms of the bowler-hatted gentleman on the footplate. See on Route Map
Digital Reference: L1073
Creator: Newton, S. W. A. - circa 1903
Publisher: Leicestershire County Council
Type: Black and White
Format: 118mm, 161mm
Copyright: Leicestershire County Council
Source: S. W. A. Newton Collection - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland (part of S. W. A. Newton Collection, copy of glass plate negative)
Identifier: Newton - CL 74
OS Reference: 470600 219100
