85 Keighley 13 March 2022

Unlike the other three 'Big Four' railway companies, very few of the Great Western Railway's constituent railway's steam locomotives survived into preservation. Just two Taff Railway locomotives survive, including 02 Class 0-6-2T 85, which resides at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. It is pictured here waiting at Keighley station, prior to working the 11:20 shuttle service to Ingrow West on 13 March 2022. No.85 was built by Neilson Reid & Co in 1899. When the Taff Vale Railway was taken over by the GWR it became No.426, but was sold into industrial use just five years later. It was withdrawn in 1968 and arrived at the KWVR two years later.