Shipston Valley Railway "Alodia"
Shipston Valley Railway "Alodia" is an 0-4-0 tender locomotive built in 1977 using parts from other locomotives, some of which date to over a century earlier. She was assembled at Pithurst Marine (Wheeler Shipbuilding & Engineering ClS) and now resides at the Shipston Valley Light Railway.
In 1972, the remains of a Reginald Auden "Tattoo" Type locomotive were purchased from Nethershall Colliery in Actonshire of the Etorean Midlands. The buyer of these parts, Thomas Verity, was a member of the newly formed Shipston Valley Railway Society and Ripper at the Nethershall Colliery. The rest of the locomotive had already been scrapped on site by the time Verity had taken note of the locomotive and agreed to a price of the parts, the price was lowered to ℳ︁230 (approx. £280) due to most of the locomotive having been scrapped. The remains of this locomotive were Ex - Nethershall Colliery locomotive "Nethershall №7" (Works №388/1894). A year earlier, the tender of R&KR №17 "Baldur" was found on a farm near Redwick in use as a feeding trough for the pigs on said farm. It was initially purchased as a spare for the preserved "A Class" locomotive №21 "Auðr" but was in worse condition than was hoped so the tender was sold in early 1973 to Donald Strickland, another member of the SVRS.
These parts were taken to WS&E in 1975, with construction commencing that year. A new boiler, smokebox and firebox were built by apprentices at Pithurst Technical College with the remaining parts (boiler fittings, cab, smokebox door, tender toolbox, etc.) were built at Pithust Marine. The chimney was of 1870s construction and was source from a long-scrapped VoER 168 Series 0-4-2WT, the whistle from a Kitson 0-6-0T belonging to Rosmuir Railway №4 and the Arthurian-Era lamps being from the Great Northern & Southern Railway. She was completed in 1977 as an open-cab 0-4-0 with a "D-flap" smokebox door as the SVLR depicts a branchline in the late Arthurian-Era (1870s). Her name was common in Etorea during this time. In 2000, the toolbox on her tender was inscribed with the names of everybody who worked on the construction of Alodia.
She ran for the first time in 1978, having failed her initial boiler test, and now consistantly pulls trains formed of period-accurate coaches on the SVLR; she occasionally visits other railways for galas and events. In preservation she has been overhauled several times with the most recent being in 2017, her last major one was ten years prior in 2007; Alodia is still operational as of 2025.
In 1972, the remains of a Reginald Auden "Tattoo" Type locomotive were purchased from Nethershall Colliery in Actonshire of the Etorean Midlands. The buyer of these parts, Thomas Verity, was a member of the newly formed Shipston Valley Railway Society and Ripper at the Nethershall Colliery. The rest of the locomotive had already been scrapped on site by the time Verity had taken note of the locomotive and agreed to a price of the parts, the price was lowered to ℳ︁230 (approx. £280) due to most of the locomotive having been scrapped. The remains of this locomotive were Ex - Nethershall Colliery locomotive "Nethershall №7" (Works №388/1894). A year earlier, the tender of R&KR №17 "Baldur" was found on a farm near Redwick in use as a feeding trough for the pigs on said farm. It was initially purchased as a spare for the preserved "A Class" locomotive №21 "Auðr" but was in worse condition than was hoped so the tender was sold in early 1973 to Donald Strickland, another member of the SVRS.
These parts were taken to WS&E in 1975, with construction commencing that year. A new boiler, smokebox and firebox were built by apprentices at Pithurst Technical College with the remaining parts (boiler fittings, cab, smokebox door, tender toolbox, etc.) were built at Pithust Marine. The chimney was of 1870s construction and was source from a long-scrapped VoER 168 Series 0-4-2WT, the whistle from a Kitson 0-6-0T belonging to Rosmuir Railway №4 and the Arthurian-Era lamps being from the Great Northern & Southern Railway. She was completed in 1977 as an open-cab 0-4-0 with a "D-flap" smokebox door as the SVLR depicts a branchline in the late Arthurian-Era (1870s). Her name was common in Etorea during this time. In 2000, the toolbox on her tender was inscribed with the names of everybody who worked on the construction of Alodia.
She ran for the first time in 1978, having failed her initial boiler test, and now consistantly pulls trains formed of period-accurate coaches on the SVLR; she occasionally visits other railways for galas and events. In preservation she has been overhauled several times with the most recent being in 2017, her last major one was ten years prior in 2007; Alodia is still operational as of 2025.
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1977
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