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Former contractors' saddletank locomotive, SIR BERKELEY.

Manning Wardle & Co. built, 0-6-0 saddletank (Class L), No. 1210 of 1890. It began life as number '30' in the Logan & Hemingway fleet and worked on the London Extension construction in the Nottingham area. Renumbered '10', the locomotive saw further use in the south-west before being sold to the Cranford ironstone Quarries where it was named SIR BERKELEY. Today the locomotive belongs to the Vintage Carriages Trust and is based on the Middleton Railway in Leeds. It is seen here at Weybourne station on the North Norfolk Railway, in the company of a agricultural traction engine built by William Foster of Lincoln. The coach behind the locomotive is a former Metropolitan Railway brake third, No. 427 of 1910.