Motive Power
The railway was operated by two 2-2-2 tank locomotives supplied by William Fairbairn & Sons in 1855, numbered 1 and 2. No. 2 was scrapped in 1928. No. 1 continued to operate until 1936 when it was derailed and plunged down an embankment, and cut up on the site. It was then the last single locomotive in regular traffic in Great Britain and Ireland. Thereafter the line was operated by diesel railcars.
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“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)