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Bluebell Railway. 0-6-2T #473 "Birch Grove" being prepared at Sheffield Park engine shed on the Bluebell Railway with on Sunday June 6th, 1999. This class 2 mixed traffic engine carries LBSCR umber as used by their CME Douglas Earle Marsh. In 2000 this engine worked on the IOW Railway and following its return now faces south. Photo by Michael Taylor, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6

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Bluebell Railway. LBSCR 0-6-2T #473 "Birch Grove" enters the Horsted Keynes Station on the Bluebell Railway with their Golden Arrow Pullman car lunch train on Sunday June 6th, 1999. The footplate crew are exchanging the single line tablet and staff with the signalman. Photographed on Fuji 800 which accounts for the grain. Photo by Michael Taylor, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6

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London Brighton and South Coast Railway LBSCR Radial Tank No 473 'Birch Grove' was built in 1898. It is the only surviving example of a design by Robert Billington and known as a radial tank due to the radial axle beneath the cab. She is currently visiting the IoW from the Bluebell Railway. Isle of Wight Steam Railway August 30th 2003. Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com

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Class E4 0-6-4t Radial Tank 'Birch Grove' is pictured here at Havenstreet on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. Isle of Wight Steam Railway August 30th 2003. Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com

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Class E4 were mixed traffic locos and No 473 survived until 1962 on BR when the loco went straight into preservation on the Bluebell Railway on which it is normally based. 'Birch Grove is pictured at Havenstreet the IoW Steam Railways Centre. Isle of Wight Steam Railway August 30th 2003. Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com

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0-6-2t 'Birch Grove' is currently on loan from the Bluebell Railway and is spending part of the Summer on the Isle of Wight. One remarkable feature of this loco is that she retains her original boiler number 891 fitted new in July 1898. It had been used by various other Brighton Tanks before being refitted in 1960. She is pictured at the delightfully rural western end of the line Wootton. Isle of Wight Steam Railway August 30th 2003. Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com