Lyn locomotive

The locomotive with the name Lyn the narrow gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L & B) in Devon was a tank locomotive with the wheel arrangement 1'B1 '.

Start of operations in 1898, the L & B 1'C1' three tank locomotives of Manning Wardle Yeo, Exe and Taw had procured. But even before its opening in May it became clear that three locomotives would be insufficient. Because the British Lokomkotivfabriken could not deliver in the short term because of a strike, the American manufacturer Baldwin was awarded the contract. The locomotive was delivered in parts, assembled in the workshops of the L & B and commissioned in July 1898 in operation.

Had little in common with the construction of the other locomotives. It was a typical American locomotive with bar frames, Stephenson valve, reinforcing struts between the front end of the frame and smoke chamber, two sand domes on the boiler and a closed wooden cab. Although it was a few tons and a slight dome axis was less, Lyn was slightly longer and wider than the Manning Wardle machines.

The name Lyn came as that of the other locomotives of a river in the region. Although Lyn was not popular as a " stranger " in personnel especially, she performed without major breakdowns in service. In 1907 she received a new boiler in a slightly different design.

After the takeover of the web by the Southern Railway in 1923, the locomotive was renumbered E 762, but retained its name.

Following closure of the track in 1935 Lyn was scrapped along with the locomotives Yeo, Exe and Taw in December of this year.

In January 2009, the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust a planned reconstruction of the Lyn announced which is to be completed by 2012 at the latest. The new engine is also called Lyn.