Locomotives Not Designed by LNWR
Eastern Counties Railway No. 154 Suffolk.
This engine was at first thought to have LNWR connections but has
since been identified as Eastern Counties Railway No. 154 Suffolk, built by
Braithwaite & Co in 1838 as an 0-4-0 and rebuilt by Kitson & Co in 6.1848 as an
0-4-2ST with a short chimney for working on the Woolwich branch and renumbered 188.
The ECR became part of the Great Eastern Railway in August 1862, and No. 188 was
sold or scrapped in 1862-5. This photograph was reproduced in an early Locomotive
Magazine.
The engine on the right seems to be one of Gooch’s 2-2-2WT of 1851-5, which were
the first engines built at Stratford. There is a small photograph of one of them
on page 90 of The British Steam Locomotive 1825-1925 by Ahrons, which seems to
have been taken at the same place and time as that of No. 188.