Barrington

A ā€œDā€ Class 0-4-0 saddletank No.1875 built by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol in 1921. One of a batch of seven similar locomotives they were exported to India for use on the Bombay Harbour Improvement Trust development. Returned to the UK in 1929 it saw use during 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, Stanbridgeford, Bedfordshire where it is understood to have operated under the name of ISOBEL until quarry closure in 1965. Transferred to Barrington Cement Works and quarry in Cambridgeshire it worked on until retirement in 1971, when it left for preservation during which it gained the name BARRINGTON after its last industrial plant. Arriving at the Museum in October 2024 it has joined other locomotives and rolling stock from the Barrington Cement works and quarry railway, which was the last operating quarry railway system in the UK before it closed due to modernisation in 2005.

Barrington at the quarry face.