tr-corris

The Talyllyn Railway Corris Railway locomotives are No. 3 Sir Haydn and No. 4 Edward Thomas, two Kerr Stuart Tattoo class 0-4-2ST saddle-tank engines originally operated on the Corris Railway — a 2 ft 3 in narrow-gauge slate and passenger railway in mid-Wales that closed in 1948 — and subsequently acquired by the newly-preserved Talyllyn Railway to supplement its fleet. The Corris Railway's closure in 1948 (following flood damage to a bridge) came almost simultaneously with the Talyllyn Railway's rescue by the preservation society in 1951, and the acquisition of Sir Haydn and Edward Thomas gave the TR two additional working locomotives for the world's first preserved railway's operating needs. See the Kerr Stuart Tattoo Class entry for full details of these two locomotives.