LB&SCR A1 Class - Preservation

Preservation

For a complete list of the class, see List of LB&SCR A1 class locomotives.

Ten members of the class have been preserved, chiefly in the South of England. The engines are listed in order of their LB&SCR identity; the identity in bold is their current running identity as of January 2010.

  • 40 Brighton (preserved at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway as W11 Newport )
  • 46 Newington (preserved at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway as W8 Freshwater )
  • 50 Whitechapel (preserved at the Spa Valley Railway as no. 32650 Sutton )
  • 54 Waddon (preserved at the Canadian Railway Museum)
  • 55 Stepney (preserved at the Bluebell Railway)
  • 62 Martello (preserved at the Bressingham Steam Museum as 662 Martello ; as 32662 from May 2011)
  • 70 Poplar (preserved at the Kent & East Sussex Railway as 3 Bodiam ; as 32670 from April 2011)
  • 72 Fenchurch (preserved at the Bluebell Railway as 672 Fenchurch )
  • 78 Knowle (preserved at the Kent & East Sussex Railway as 32678)
  • 82 Boxhill (preserved at the National Railway Museum).

As of April 2011, five Terriers are in operation. In the UK, steam locomotives may only be run for 10 years at a time between major overhauls (boiler certificates), and as such only engines which have been returned to traffic within the last ten years are classed as "operational". These engines are 'Martello (able to run until 2012), 'Stepney (certified to run until 2015 but will not be used extensively), Bodiam (able to run until 2016), Knowle (able to run until 2019), Freshwater (able to run until 2019) . 72 Fenchurch's boiler certificate expired in February 2011. Two members of the class are being restored. These are Whitechapel/Sutton, which is being restored at the Spa Valley Railway and Brighton/Newport, at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.

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