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Welcome to the Urie Locomotive Society |
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The aim of the society is to preserve an example of Robert Urie’s class S15 4-6-0 locomotives for operation on Britain’s heritage steam railways. In fact, the society owns the only two surviving Urie S15’s, numbers 499 and 506, built for the London & South Western Railway in 1920 to convey heavy freight. To compliment our engines, the society also owns a range of ten typical goods vans and wagons to form a short goods train.
Nos. 506 was restored from Barry scrapyard condition in 1987 and ran on the Mid-Hants Railway for fourteen years before being withdrawn. She is currently having a full ten-year overhaul with the intention to return her to steam in the near future.
Nos. 499 is a long-term restoration project to bring her from Barry scrapyard condition as and when resources and funds permit. Much work has been done, but for now, it must be as a background task while the focus is on returning 506 to steam.
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