LITTLE GIANT | British Miniature Locomotive Database

Works Number

10

Delivered

1905

Gauge

15"

Prototype class

Little Giant

Outline

Narrow Gauge

Wheel arrangement

4-4-2

Cylinder arrangement

2 outside

Motive power

Steam

Comments

03/06/1905 trials at Eaton Hall Rly. 1905-1909 at Blackpool Rly. 1910-1914 at Halifax Zoo Rly. named LITTLE ELEPHANT, 1923 new Bassett- Lowke boiler. 1923 sold to Bunce Bros. for their Sunny Vale Rly. Halifax, renamed BABY BUNCE, and given new worksplate No. 14 of 1923. 1952-3 sold to Raymond Dunn, renamed ROBIN HOOD. 1957 sold to Mr. Noble for a line at South Shields. 1963 sold to T.E.Tate, Gateshead. 1965 name reverted to LITTLE GIANT. 1980 sold to Lightwater Valley Rly. 09/2000 displayed at Darlington Railway Museum, 2005 displayed at York Railway Museum.

Source(s)

Miniature Steam Railways in the British Isles

Location	Date Range	Edit
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway