46512

46512 at Aviemore on the Speyside Railway - June 2015.jpg

46512 was built at Swindon in December 1952.

BR motive power depot allocations.

Date ArrivedDepot
December 1952Oswestry
January 1965Shrewsbury
February 1965Willesden
June 1965Shrewsbury
September 1965Nuneaton
June 1966Crewe South

46512 worked the last passenger train over the Llanfyllin branch on the 17 January 1965. After this it was transferred to Willesden – finally returning to the tracks of the old LMS, the company for which it was designed. With dieselisation advancing rapidly, 46512 was withdrawn from Crewe in November 1966 and sold for scrap, arriving at Barry Scrapyard in June 1967. It stayed at Barry until May 1973 when it left to go to the Severn Valley Railway and then the Bulmer’s Railway Centre in Hereford before moving on to the Strathspey Railway in 1982.

It was returned to steam in October 2000.

It now carries the name E.V.Cooper Engineer in recognition of the engineer who oversaw the restoration of the locomotive.

It last returned to steam in March 2011 after a major overhaul which had caused the locomotive to be out of service for six years.

The locomotive was be lifted in early 2017 to enable the driving and pony wheels to be removed and sent to the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland for turning on the wheel lathe at Whitehead.

Over the winter a full boiler re-tubing and cylinder re-boring is planned so that the locomotive can return to traffic in march or April 2018.

The locomotive was taken out of service at the beginning of November 2020. There is no timescale for the overhaul.

Home BaseCurrent StatusOwner
Strathspey RailwayUnder overhaulStrathspey Railway Company
46512 at Llanfyllin with a train to the junction at Llanymynech – August 1964
46512 on a service from Llanfyllin leaving Llansantffraid-yn-Mechain on the branch of the Cambrian Railway – August 1964
46512 on Willesden shed – April 1965
46512 and 46511 at Shrewsbury – August 1965
46512 at Minsterley with a SLS Shropshire Rail Tour on the leg between Shrewsbury and back – September 1965
46512 in Woodham’s scrapyard at Barry
46512 in Woodham’s scrayard at Barry – July 1967
46512 at Bewdley on the Severn Valley Railway – August 1973
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46512 at Bewdley on the Severn Valley Railway – 1974
46512 at Bulmers Railway Centre at Hereford along with 46201 Princess Elizabeth and 35028 Clan Line – Early 1980s
46512 under restoration at Aviemore on the Strathspey Railway – June 1986
46512 at Boat of Garten with a train for Aviemore – October 2002
46512 on the Strathspey Railway – April 2004
46512 at Broomhill on the Strathspey Railway – September 2012
46512 at Aviemore on the Strathspey Railway – July 2014
46512 at Aviemore on the Speyside Railway - June 2015.jpg
46512 at Aviemore on the Speyside Railway – June 2015
46512 at Boat of Garten on the Strathspey Railway – April 2016
46512 at Aviemore on the Strathspey Railway - August 2018.jpg
46512 at Aviemore on the Strathspey Railway – August 2018
46512 running as 46464 Near Drumuillie on the Strathspey Railway – August 2018

46512 at Aviemore on the Strathspey Railway – August 2018

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