Sharp Stewart 0-4-2 saddle tank at Victoria station about 1880

Scene at Victoria station in London about 1880 with an LNWR train for Willesden in the platform. The engine is an 0-4-2 saddle tank, one of three built by Sharp Stewart for the Vale of Clwyd Railway: Clwyd and Elwy, built in 1858, and Galtfaenan, built in August 1859. This is probably the latter, as a note in the English Mechanic in September 1878 states that it was then at Willesden shed. The Vale of Clwyd was absorbed by the LNWR in 1867 and the three engines became LNWR 1686-8 but were put on the duplicate list in June the following year, Galtfaenan becoming 1204. In December 1871 it was restored to the capital list as 1168, it lost its name in August 1875, was put on the duplicate list again in July 1879 and was scrapped in June 1883. The photo was first published about 1920 in Loco News & Railway Contractor. There is a small drawing of a sister engine in its original state in Locomotive Magazine, October 1913 page 233 fig 3, and a photo of the same engine (with added cab) in Cambrian Railways Album by C. C. Green (Ian Allan, 1977), page 14.