Earlier this year I posted the following query here:
I have just been looking at the Brecon to Newport volume in the Lost Lines of Wales series by Tom Ferris (Graffeg Publishing) again. On page 35 there is an undated photograph of an unidentified GWR 14XX 0-4-2T running bunker first at the head of a freight train apparently heading southwards near Talybont. I don't recall having seen a photograph of this class of locomotive on this line before. The usual locos were 0-6-0PTs. Were 14XX tanks in use regularly on this route or was this something unusual? I would have thought that hauling a freight train up the Seven Mile Bank to Torpantau would have been a challenge to one of these diminutive locomotives. Any thoughts?
The location has now been positively identified as Bullock's Mill Crossing on the Leominster to Kington/New Radnor branch. The locomotive will be 1420 and the photograph was taken in 1964. The water course in the foreground is not the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal as stated in the caption and the bridge in the background crosses the River Arrow.