ONE of Keighley’s most historic steam locomotives is having a busy year on tour to other railways.
The LNWR Coal Tank has already visited Worcestershire and is due to travel to South Wales and Birmingham this autumn.
Coal Tank, maintained by the Ingrow-based Bahamas Locomotive Society, was made in 1888 and is the last remaining engine of its type anywhere in the world.
The loco was given a prestigious Engineering Heritage Award in 2013, ranking it with E-Type Jaguar, Tower Bridge and the Vulcan bomber as an iconic feat of British engineering.
Coal Tank proved a crowd puller last spring at the Severn Valley Railway’s steam gala, memorably pulling coaches online during a solar eclipse.
It is due to visit the Welsh Tanks Gala on the Pontypool and Blanaevon Railway this month, then become the main full-size exhibit at a model railway show in Birmingham.
Coal Tank is off again next year, playing a key role in an event at Alstom to mark the opening of the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) depot there in 1842.
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