GWR 7800 Class 7821 Ditcheat Manor

Infobox Locomotive
name="Ditcheat Manor"
powertype=Steam
gauge=RailGauge|sg


caption=7821 "Ditcheat Manor" rests outside Loughborough shed on 17 October 2004 with BR Brunswick green livery with late logo.
railroad=Western Region
officialname=
railroadclass=7800 'Manor' Class
builddate=1950
roadnumber=7821
currentowner=
disposition=
retiredate=1965

Great Western Railway 7800 Class No. 7821 "Ditcheat Manor" is a preserved British steam locomotive.

The second of the last batch of 10 engines of her thirty-strong class, she was actually built by British Railways in 1950. Like most of her class of lightweight 4-6-0s, she was allocated to lines in Mid Wales, but was also based Oxley and Newton Abbott. 7821 was withdrawn in November 1965 and was sent to Woodhams' Scrapyard in Barry, South Wales.

Rescued from Barry in 1980 and was sent to the embryonic Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, before moving to the Llangollen Railway and then Swindon, restoration being completed in 1998, when it first steamed at the West Somerset Railway. Since then the loco has mostly worked on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire but in late 2005 moved to the Cambrian Railways Trust after its owner had a falling out with GCR management. The engine is currently on loan to the Churnet Valley Railway until 2007 but is now awaiting movement after being bought by the West Somerset Railway

External links

* http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/locos/e7821.htm
* [http://ukhrail.uel.ac.uk/cgi-bin/rlylocos?NO=7821&NA=Ditcheat+Manor&CL=&CO=ANY&BL=&WN=&LO= Preserved locomotive database]