Jurassic hauls first trains in 32 years at Skegness

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THE Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway’s Peckett 0-6-0ST Jurassic is to haul its first passenger trains in nearly a third of a century on September 17.

Restored with the help of £43,000 in Lottery funding, Jurassic, No. 1008 of 1903, will run on the line during the Classic Car & Bike Show at the Skegness Water Leisure Park. The show will raise funds for the Skegness lifeboat station and the Lincolnshire Air Ambulance.

No. 8842 Jurassic with ex-Ashover Light Railway coach and accessible carriage leaving south loop. Dave Enefer/LCLR

The former Southam Cement Works quarry locomotive was bought by the LCLR to run on its original line at Humberston, but went into storage when it closed in 1985.

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Work to repair the boiler, the smokebox and the firebox was contracted out to the North Norfolk Railway’s workshops at Weybourne.

It has successfully operated two days of trial trains.

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