GWR 4247’s FIRST STEAMING & TEST RUNS after overhaul at the EAST SOMERSET RAILWAY! | 17.05.2025
4247 arrived from Bodmin in January 2022 to be overhauled by the ESR as a contract job, following an agreement between the owners, 4247 Ltd and The Dartmouth Steam Railway, which will see the loco on hire to the DSR for a 20 year period. Visitors have been able to view the overhaul progress in or around The Engine Shed at Cranmore, and today the hard work and efforts of the team was rewarded as a fire was lit and this afternoon, and after the team fine tuned some niggles, inevitable at this early stage post overhaul, the locomotive proudly moved under its own power! She looked magnificent in British Railways black, an appropriate livery which would have been worn by 4247 in 1948 in the first year of British Railways ownership, and she even engaged in a short whistle off with GWR 4555 which was working todays Mendip Belle services. There was also a good opportunity to see the newly installed Cranmore ground frame by the signal box.
The team have done a brilliant job, and she will certainly impress at the ESR's forthcoming Steam Gala when she will star alongside 4555 and 4110, and haul her first passenger trains between 31st May - 1st June, a real credit to everyone involved! | 17.05.2025
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A GWR 2-8-0T locomotive, numbered 4247, successfully completed its first steam test runs following a three-year overhaul at Cranmore. The locomotive was overhauled by the East Somerset Railway on behalf of 4247 Ltd and will be on long-term hire to the Dartmouth Steam Railway. The event took place after the locomotive arrived from Bodmin in early 2022. The restoration work, visible to visitors at Cranmore Engine Shed, culminated in the locomotive being steamed up and moving under its own power for the first time. It was displayed in British Railways black livery during the test runs.
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