GWR 7800 Class 7819 Hinton Manor


7819 Hinton Manor is a Great Western Railway locomotive part of the Manor Class. It is one of 9 locomotives preserved from the class which originally had 30.

Service

7819 was built by the Great Western Railway in 1939 and was initially allocated to Carmarthen before moving to Oswestry in 1943. It regularly worked the Cambrian Coast Expresses in the 1960s until being withdrawn from service in November 1965 and moved to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.

Preservation

7819 was acquired from Barry in 1973 by the Hinton Manor Fund with help from the Severn Valley Railway Company. Following restoration it entered service in 1977 and also appeared on the main line, including the 1987 Cardigan Bay Express season. It was last steamed at the end of 1994 and then placed in storage awaiting overhaul. After cosmetic restoration, it replaced Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 4930 Hagley Hall as a static exhibit at the Swindon Designer Outlet in 2007. It returned to the SVR in August 2018 and in March 2019 was moved into The Engine House at Highley. Ownership of the locomotive was transferred to the Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust in 2004.

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