The Bahamas Locomotive Society has announced that LNWR ‘Coal Tank’ No. 1054 will be featuring at the Forging History: 180 Years Of Crewe Works exhibition this August.

1054 was built at Crewe Works in 1888 and was the 250th example of the class. It worked for 50 years hauling coal, goods and passenger services.

The Forging History exhibition is due to celebrate the 180th anniversary of the Grand Junction Railway Engineering Works moving from Edge Hill to Crewe and runs from the 1st July until the 10th September.

Keith Whitmore, Chairman of Bahamas Locomotive Society, said: “We are absolutely delighted to have been invited to participate in this event to mark the 180th anniversary and to display this 1888 built loco back in the town where it was built.

The Coal Tank is the only operational LNWR loco in preservation and can be seen in operation at its home on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and at other railways as well, indeed in September the loco can be seen in steam in South Wales where the loco worked for many years at the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway for their 40th-anniversary celebrations. Crewe Heritage Centre and the Town Council should be really proud to be able to mount such a significant event.”