ORENSTEIN & Koppel 90hp 0-6-0WT Pedemoura (OK10808/1924) entered Leighton Buzzard Railway (LBR) service on July 17 – the first time it had hauled fare-paying passengers.
Pedemoura arrived new at Minas de Peãjo, Portugal in February 1924, its name deriving from Pedorido coal mine in the Douro Valley. Repatriated in 1972, it initially went to Pleasurerail’s Knebworth West Park and Winter Green Railway at Knebworth House, near Stevenage, and subsequently travelled to Welsh Highland Railway (1964) Ltd (now Welsh Highland Heritage Railway) in June 1975.
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