Locomotives
Monday 6 September 2010
No.6 Eigiau
A 0-4-0 well tank built by Orenstein & Koppell A.G., Berlin, Germany in 1913 (works no. 5668).
Ex Llyn Eigiau Reservoir contract for the Aluminium Corporation, Dolgarrog, North Wales then in 1928 Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, North Wales.
In late 1962 A Mr. G.J. Mullis of Droitwich acquired Eigiau from Bethesda and then set about a rebuild and laid some track on which to run Eagiau. A very interesting article about Mr. Mullis's ownership of Eigiau appeared in The Industrial Railway Record No. 14 dated June 1967.
Sometime after 1967 Eigiau went to Alan Bloom's Bressingham Steam Museum, Diss, Norfolk, England and in 1995 to BWLR.
Eigiau undergoing a rebuild at the BWLR
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