Current number:
070840
Departmental number:
150437
Any other previous number(s):
5
Notes:
West Somerset Railway. Possibly now cut down to underframe or scrapped - confirmation needed.

Preserved Railway / Museum:
West Somerset Railway
Categories:
Preserved vehicles
DW series
IU 07xxxx series
Not seen recently / to check

Photos

Comments

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• 070840

  10 August 2007 - wardog

  can anyone tell me what this was use for thanks

• 070840

  10 August 2007 - SD0853

  I think it was a Waste oil / Sludge carrier.

• 070840

  11 August 2007 - wardog

  thanks anyone know what class it came from

• 070840

  7 July 2009 - john majka

  i recently went on holiday this year 2009 and called at wilton station on the west somerset railway when looking down the platform could see a green tender standing alone near the bottom shed but this tender seemed to be in good condition could any one confirm this was the tender above the date seen was 22/05/09

• 070840

  8 July 2009 - Leon

  I think the tender above is from a ROD class 04 2-8-0 as the GWR did have some after the ww1 .

  The tender at Wiliton is off one of the manors

• 070840

  9 July 2009 - Phil Hetherington

  There was more than one ROD/O4 tender modified in this way - one was acquired without wheelsets (possibly also from the West Somerset? I forget) and parts used in the restoration of the one now preserved behind loco 63601, the remains (I think) being scrapped. I can't say whether 63601's tender used the frames which came from the NRM with the loco or the ones from the water carrier, or whether that was this one or another one. I believe the one mentioned at the West Somerset is similar (I've never seen it myself).

• 070840

  11 July 2009 - Brian H Williams

  This tender had been at Landore for ages- it was there when I used to visit in the late 1960s. The ex-ROD tenders went to Collett '2251' 0-6-0s after the withdrawal of the RODs, I believe.

• 070840

  12 December 2009 - Steve Cross

  Sludge Tender. Ex-R.O.D. Tender. Transferred 09/79. Info from Platform 5 Dept. Coaching Stock book 3rd Ed 1987.

• 070840

  12 December 2009 - Steve Cross

  Sludge Tender. Ex-R.O.D. Tender. Transferred 09/79. Info from Platform 5 Dept. Coaching Stock book 3rd Ed 1987.

• 12 June 2012 - Justin Edwards

  A tank from a tender at the West Somerset Rly (and therefore presumably 070840) was removed and placed on the chassis of the tender that was preserved with the GCR 2-8-0 (BR no 63601) in 1999. I don't know what happened to the chassis of 070840 subsequently. This information is drawn from the Great Central Railway newsletter archive pages.

• 30 June 2024 - justin edwards

  The RCTS Railway Observer magazine January 1995 p18 reported that this vehicle left Landore in November 1994. It had been used to store sludge from fuel tanks.