80098
BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank

80098 was finally steamed during early August 1998, and underwent steam trials up and down the Midland Railway line for about 10 days. She was then repainted in readiness for her first run in steam on BR metals when she was towed to Toton Open Day on the evening of Friday 29th August, 1998.

Since then she has clocked up several thousand miles of faultless running over various regions in the UK. She has spent the last year or so being regularly steamed at the Midland Railway with scheduled trains and used for driver training and experience courses. In 2005, as part of the opening of the West Shed extension, HRH The Duke of Gloucester drove her from Butterley Station part of the way to the event. The locomotive is currently on hire to the Churnet Valley Railway.

80098 at Shoeburyness on the LT&S shuttle 3rd May 1999. Photo: Brell Ewart

Awaiting 'The Night Owl' train, 80098 stands at Nottingham Station
15th March 1999. Photo: Paul Wood


80098 drifts off the Maidstone branch into Paddock Wood station
before joining the south east section mainline of the Southern Region. Photo: John Stiles


With smoke billowing from the distant tunnel,
80098 approaches Sprey Point, Teignmouth. Photo: John Stiles


80098 at the Churnet Valley Railway on
Sunday 23rd December 2007. Photo: D.R.Gibson

80098 stands at Cheddleton Yard on February 2nd 2008
on a cold morning following a fall of snow.
She is being prepared for a photographic event later that day. Photo: Paul Wood

Working Life - Restoration - Preservation