- Wheels: 0-4-0T
- Built: 1877, Fletcher Jennings
- Last Overhaul Completed: August 2010
- Last Operational: 6 October 2018
- Current Status: Static display, awaiting overhaul
- Owned By: Bluebell Railway
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‘Baxter’ arrived at the Bluebell in 1960 after spending its working life at the Dorking Greystone Lime Works at Betchworth station. It was only in 1982 that it returned to traffic after a comprehensive overhaul.
‘Baxter’ runs a very low mileage each year, so, having received a major mechanical overhaul in the early 1980s and a boiler overhaul ten years later, following the expiry of its boiler certificate in July 2000 it was not expected to take much effort to give it another ten-year certificate. However various items needed rather more work than expected, and the opportunity was also taken to fit steam heating and vacuum braking equipment for the first time. This work (reported here) has been undertaken by the volunteer team who undertook the overhaul of “Fenchurch”, and “Captain Baxter” (as it had been named until 1947) returned to service at the 50th Anniversary Gala in August 2010.
→ Find out more
→ Details of 2010 overhaul
→ Video clip of Baxter working the Vintage Goods train in September 1997 by Lewis Nodes
