This loco is offered for sale by the owner David Best. In the first instance contact davidbest100@aol.com or bill@bwlr.co.uk
No.9 ‘Limpopo’ is an 0-6-0T with both well and side tanks and was built by John Fowler & Co. (Leeds) Ltd. in 1930 (works No.18800) for Wigglesworth & Co. Ltd., a British company for their sisal estate at Namagoa in the north of Mozambique. It moved south and for many years worked at the Sena Sugar Estates. The civil war in Mozambique in the 1970s brought an end to the sugar industry but it was not until 1998 that ‘Limpopo’ returned to the U.K. for a complete rebuild. It returned to active service in 2003 and was named ‘Limpopo’ after the great African river which reaches the sea in Mozambique.
This is sold as seen, where seen (at BWLR) without a boiler certificate.
