LNER 43556 Gresley BTO Built 1938

LNER 43556 Gresley BTO Built 1938

Present Location UNDISCLOSED
County Location Derbyshire
Designed For LNER
Built By Cravens
Diagram Number D196
Type BTO
First Number 43556
Later Numbers 16631
Present Number None
Gauge 4ft 8 1/2in
Wheel Arrangement 4-w bogies
Original Underframe Yes
Original Bogies Yes
Additional Notes Was privately owned at East Anglian Railway Museum. To NYMR 08/02, with Agreement with LNERCA and NYMR for restoration and use in passenger trains. Sheeted and at Pickering sidings by 04/03. Sold to Epping Ongar Railway and moved to that Railway 05/14; seen sheeted at Ongar by 08/15 and again at 04/18 - see additional photo below. 03/22: offered for sale. 06/22: now owned by Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Society and, later in 2022, planned to go to Lee Sharp's workshops at Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, Wirksworth for contract overhaul. c.06/23: moved to Wirksworth. 09/24: moved from Ecclesbourne Valley Railway to a private site elsewhere in Derbyshire for its restoration to be completed.
Owner Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society
External Structural Condition Poor and Incomplete
Internal Structural Condition Poor and Incomplete
Underframe Condition Poor but Substantially Complete
External Condition Poor and Incomplete
Rarity Unique
Importance Some Interest
Storage Secure Open
Operational No
Date Inspected 12/04/2003
Inspected By Kevin Stroud
Date of Image 12/04/2003
At Risk No
Scrapped No
Record Last Updated 06/03/2026

Steve West 28/04/2018

     








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