Originally built for the Groudle Glen Railway, the Bear as she is affectionately known was acquired by the Brockham Museum Trust soon after the GGR closed. She came to Amberley when the Brockham collection was transferred there in 1982. Currently under overhaul.
Amberley Museum Railway
Peter
2067
1917
0-4-0ST
2 ft (610 mm)
Peter was built as a 3 ft gauge engine for the Canadian Forestry Commission. However due to cessation of hostilities it was returned to the manufacturer and, after being regauged to 2 ft, was put to work at the Cliffe Hill Quarry Company. Peter recently returned to service after a six-year restoration.
Amberley Museum Railway
Wendy
2091
1919
0-4-0ST
2 ft (610 mm)
Wendy is a 2 ft gauge Quarry Bagnall formerly used at the Dorothea Quarry in North Wales. She is currently on loan to Amberley Museum from the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society.
Originally built for the Groudle Glen Railway and operated in the glen until the Second World War. She was then left to rust outside the engine shed, and used for spart parts for Polar Bear until after the railway ceased operating in 1963. The rusted locomotive was rescued from the glen, and following a number of years as a static exhibit she was rebuilt as an Apprentice training project by British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield in 1987 and returned to service on the Groudle Glen Railway in 1987, which in the meantime had been restored by a group of volunteers.
One of five lightweight shunters used on the wharves in Port Swettenham and Singapore. Originally owned by the Federated Malay States Railways and Malayan Railways. Sold to Pan-Malayan Cement in 1965 and painted green, but returned to MR and cosmetically restored with black MR livery in 1972. Placed on display beside Muzium Negara in 1973.
A batch of three built for the Steel Company of Wales, they were used at their Abbey, Margam and Port Talbot Steelworks. Replaced by diesels in 1957, 2994 and 2996 were sold in September to the Austin Motor Company of Longbridge plant, Birmingham. No.2995 went to the N.C.B. in South Wales, and was scrapped in 1967. Sold to the West Somerset Railway, 2994 and 2996 become the core of the WSR's early motive power. Replaced by authentic GWR locomotives, 2994 was sold to the Stephenson Railway Museum, were it worked until 2009, and now stored awaiting restoration. 2996 was sold to the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway.[3]
