The Severn Valley Railway has announced that BR Hawksworth Pannier Tank No. 1638 will be visiting them for their 2020 Spring Steam Gala.

1638 will join resident ‘Matchboxes’ No. 1501 and 7714 and home fleet locomotives and visiting locomotives LMS 8F No. 48305, from the Great Central Railway, and GWR Saint No. 2999 Lady of Legend, from the Didcot Railway Centre.

Pannier No. 1638 visits thanks to the Kent and East Sussex Railway.

1638 will double head a number of full-line services with bigger sister No. 7714.

A brief history of 1638

1638 is one of the 70-strong class of 16XX locomotives, they were designed by GWR, but were built by BR Western Region. They were built between 1949 and 1955 and had a short working life. They were withdrawn from 1959, and all were withdrawn by 1966.

1638 is the only member of the class to survive being scrapped. It is preserved on the Kent and East Sussex Railway, with its last overhaul being completed in 2016.

You can find out more about the Pannier class with this excellent book from Pen & Sword – you can read our review by clicking here.

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