Yeo (locomotive)
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''Yeo'' was one of three narrow gauge
steam locomotive A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomot ...
s built by
Manning Wardle Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Precursor companies The city of Leeds was one of the earliest centres of locomotive building; Matthew Murray built the first commercially s ...
in 1898 for the
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L&B) opened as an independent railway in May 1898. It was a single track, narrow gauge railway and was slightly over long running through the rugged and picturesque area bordering Exmoor in North Devon, ...
. The other two locomotives were named ''Exe'' and ''Taw''. ''Yeo'', like all the locomotives on the L&B, was named after a local river with a three-letter name, in this case the River Yeo. This naming tradition has been continued in the 21st Century, with ''Lyd'' (a replica of ''Lew'', the fourth locomotive built to this basic design) operational on the
Ffestiniog Railway The Ffestiniog Railway ( cy, Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a heritage railway based on narrow-gauge, located in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a major tourist attraction located mainly within the Snowdonia National Park. The railway is roughly long an ...
and the
Welsh Highland Railway The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) or Rheilffordd Eryri is a long, restored narrow gauge heritage railway in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, operating from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, and passing through a number of popular tourist destinations in ...
. It had been intended that ''Lyd'' would receive ''Yeo's'' original chimney (which survived on a steamroller for 62 years) but it was found to be too corroded for further use. The naming tradition has also been applied to a
Kerr Stuart Kerr, Stuart and Company Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent, England. History It was founded in 1881 by James Kerr as "James Kerr & Company", and became "Kerr, Stuart & Company" from 1883 when John Stuart was taken on as a ...
''Joffre'' class locomotive currently running on the revived L&B, which has been named ''Axe'', and a Maffei locomotive named ''Sid''. Following the railway's closure in 1935 ''Yeo'' was scrapped along with all of the other L&B locomotives except ''Lew'' which was exported to South America. A set of frames for a new ''Yeo'' were built by Winson Engineering in 2000 and are currently stored waiting for construction to continue when funds are available. A gauge model was built by Milner Engineering in 1979 and worked in Buckfastleigh before moving to the Gorse Blossom Railway in 1984. A gauge model was built by
David Curwen David C. Curwen (30 November 1913 – 26 May 2011) was an English miniature railway steam locomotive mechanical engineer. Born in Sydenham, South London, and educated at King's School, Canterbury, Curwen worked from 1935 to 1945 for Short Broth ...
in 1978 for the Réseau Guerlédan Chemin de Fer Touristique in
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,
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. When the line closed, it transferred to the
Fairbourne Railway The Fairbourne Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Friog) is a gauge miniature railway running for from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry railway station, where there i ...
in North Wales.


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