Description
The SECR Manning Wardle No. 313 was a very unique machine & is the smallest engine on the Southern. Built in 1881 by Manning Wardle & Co, it was built for shunting at the Folkstone Harbour. It did this work for many years until 1919 when it was on a scrap heap at Ashford Works until 1925, when it was taken into the shops, refurbished & overhauled & was given a new lease of life as the Ashford works shunter bearing the new number 225s.
Two years later it was send to Meldon Quarry as a shunter, where it remained until 1938 when in need of a major overhaul, it was sadly scrapped.
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