New Locomotive at Twyford Waterworks!

Latest arrival on the industrial railway is the Redland Bricks battery locomotive built at their Funton Brickworks in Kent in 1979. Designed to push brickcars into the drying rooms and the kilns the diminutive locomotive was originally driven conventionally but in more recent years was converted to radio control.

Funton Works was closed earlier this year and some items, including the locomotive, were transferred to Swanage Brickworks in Dorset. There being no use for it there it was offered for sale to Graham Feldwick who lives in nearby Wareham.

It now joins the other locomotives owned by Graham and his family at Twyford.