This class D locomotive was one of a batch of thirteen built for the Bombay Harbour Improvement Trust by Avonside Engine Company in 1921.
Originally the locomotive had wooden buffers but these were later replaced with conventional ones. The cab was initially open backed but additional security measures resulted in a more enclosed cab was constructed.
All of the locomotives were all returned to Britain in 1929 by the dealer T W Ward who sold or hired them to various industrial concerns.
This locomotive was used in 1930 on a contract to extend Barking Power Station .In 1938 it moved to the new quarry for the Tottenhoe Lime and Stone Company Limited at Stanbridgeford in Bedfordshire. It carried the name Isobel and operated until the quarry closed in 1965. It then moved to the Barrington Cement Works and quarry in Cambridgeshire which became part of Rugby Portland Cement. It worked there until it was retired in 1971
retirement in 1971.Company Limited, Stanbridgeford, Bedfordshire where it operated under the name of Isobel.
In the early 1970s a group of four enthusiasts (the Avonside Steam
Preservation Society)acquired the locomotive . It was then given the name Barrington snd worked briefly on the Nene Valley Railway and subsequently saw some limited use on the Great Central Railway.
It then moved to the Colne Valley Railway where it was overhauled and ran until the boiler certificate expired in 2009.
In 2010 the locomotive was put up for sale.
In October 2024 the locomotive was sold privately and moved to the Rocks By Rail Living Ironstone
Museum in Rutland.
As of December 2024 the locomotive was undergoing conservation work with a view to being put on
display as part of the story of the Cement works and quarry railway, which was the last operating quarry railway system in the UK.
This locomotive may have been built for the Bombay Harbour Improvement Trust by Avonside Engine Company in 1921.
Originally the locomotive had wooden buffers but these were later replaced with conventional ones. The cab was initially open backed but additional security measures resulted in a more enclosed cab was constructed.
In the early 1970s a group of four enthusiasts who acquired the locomotive from Rugby Portland Cement at Barrington Cement Works in Cambridgeshire.
At one point the locomotive was briefly at the Nene Valley, and at the Great Central Museum at Loughborough.
Subsequently it moved to the Colne Valley Railway where it appears to have been stored for many years before being put up for sale.
It was still at the Colne Valley Railway in the summer of 2020.
In December 2023 it was reported that the locomotive had been put up for sale again.
In October 2024 it was disclosed that following a change in ownership of the locomotive it would be moved to Rocks by Rail in Rutland.
Preserved British Steam Locomotives 