Steam Loco "Wadhurst"

[03_179]

On a trip to the Mid Hants Railway back in 2014 we travelled on a loco my lad wrote down as Wadhurst.

A Google search doesn't find this loco. A look on the Mid Hants site finds nothing. A Wiki search produces nothing neither does a search through Spotlog.

Anyone got any idea what type of loco "Wadhurst" is?
The number etc.

Thanks in advance.

 

[that1pepfan]

Id guess a small shunter (probably not though lol)

 

[John Webb]

My 2013 edition (the last Ian Allan ever printed of this annual publication) of "Railways Restored" doesn't list such a named loco on the Mid-Hants railway. There is 'Wadebridge' which is a West Country class steam loco 34007 and the only name that comes anywhere near 'Wadhurst'.
It could be that it was a small industrial loco visiting the Mid-Hants, or perhaps a loco temporarily renamed?

 

[Gloster]

I have had a look in the 2009 edition of Jim Pike’s book on locomotive names, which should contain all past and present locos of the main companies plus preserved locos, but there is no reference to any loco called Wadhurst. Could it have been that Wadhurst was the name of the owner or their location?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I don't suppose it might have been a Terrier running in the guise of a long scrapped member of the class? That's the sort of name that would sound right on a Terrier.

Can you remember if it was a large or a small locomotive?

 

[Gloster]

I don't suppose it might have been a Terrier running in the guise of a long scrapped member of the class? That's the sort of name that would sound right on a Terrier.

Can you remember if it was a large or a small locomotive?

No Terrier called Wadhurst. There is Waddon, but I think that is in Canada. Anyway, Wadhurst station was on the South Eastern, which didn’t name locos, unlike the Brighton which did (to excess).

 

[Peter Mugridge]

No Terrier called Wadhurst. There is Waddon, but I think that is in Canada. Anyway, Wadhurst station was on the South Eastern, which didn’t name locos, unlike the Brighton which did (to excess).

Hmmm... back to the industrial suggestion, then?

 

[Cowley]

I’m fairly convinced that this was probably ‘Wadebridge’.
@03_179 - can your lad remember whether this was a large passenger loco, or was he really young at the time?

 

[Gloster]

And is there any reason that Wadhurst is a (place) name familiar to him? A relative or friend living there, a regular destination for trips out, etc.

 

[Rescars]

And is there any reason that Wadhurst is a (place) name familiar to him? A relative or friend living there, a regular destination for trips out, etc.

Once upon a time the NUR had a training centre at Wadhurst.

 

[D6130]

Once upon a time the NUR had a training centre at Wadhurst.

Was that not at Frant....the next station up the line?

 

[Gloster]

Was that not at Frant....the next station up the line?

My recollection is that it was Frant that was mentioned in the paperwork that I used to get.

 

[paul1609]

Frant station is actually in a village called Bells Yew Green. Its not actually that much further from the northern outskirts of Wadhurst than from Frant. ( Dont know where the NUR place was).

 

[deltic14]

34007 Wadebridge was certainly working on the Midhants Railway on March 8th 2014 as I had it for haulage...

 

[Rescars]

Frant station is actually in a village called Bells Yew Green. Its not actually that much further from the northern outskirts of Wadhurst than from Frant. ( Dont know where the NUR place was).

Everyone is quite correct. It was technically in Frant, but Wadhurst was the recommended station for getting there.

 

[03_179]

@03_179 - can your lad remember whether this was a large passenger loco, or was he really young at the time?

He was a bout 9 at the time.
It was the one we got as haulage.

And is there any reason that Wadhurst is a (place) name familiar to him? A relative or friend living there, a regular destination for trips out, etc.

He wouldn't have heard of Wadhurst pretty much. He

34007 Wadebridge was certainly working on the Midhants Railway on March 8th 2014 as I had it for haulage...

Thanks. I'm sure he had written it wrong.

 

[alf]

Frant station is actually in a village called Bells Yew Green. Its not actually that much further from the northern outskirts of Wadhurst than from Frant. ( Dont know where the NUR place was).

I went to meet the then RMT gen sec Sidney Weighell at the RMT’s newly acquired country estate or “training centre”.
He told me he would meet us at Frant not Wadhurst Station, & he and his driver did.

But maybe he didn't know much about trains & stations!

He mentioned his son, so I asked him if his son was a railwayman he said
“Good god no. He is at University training to be a geologist”.