R&E Krauss 4-6-2
Design and development
Built by Krauss of Munich in 1929 as Pinta, one of the miniature locomotives supplied for the Ibero-American Exposition held at Seville that year. The exposition railway ran only from 1929 to 1932, after which the locomotive was abandoned. It was later found near Barcelona, where restoration began before the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Preservation Society bought it in December 2015.
Service and withdrawals
Delivered to Ravenglass on 21 November 2017, commissioned into service on 17 March 2018 and formally named Whillan Beck on 5 May 2018, after the beck that runs through Boot and passes under the line near Dalegarth. The restoration won the Heritage Railway Association's Coiley Award for the best locomotive project of 2018.
Identification features
15 in (381 mm) gauge 4-6-2 with outside cylinders and a full-length running plate. Distinguished within the Ravenglass fleet by its Continental proportions and by its Caledonian blue livery.
Notable locomotives
- No. 12 Whillan Beck (originally Pinta)
