Owd Rosie is a 2-6-2T based on the proven design on tinkerbell, although she is longer and has more wheels!. Rosie has a marine fireboxed boiler, and sports heywood valve gear.
2 3/4" bored cylinders with 4 1/4" stroke.
Owd Rosie was purchased from Jeff Stubbs in 1994 on the principle that our then present steam engine fleet (2 Romulus' style engines)
lacked the power to pull a proper train around the railway. After looking at many engines including Dave Curwen (then owned and run at Dobwalls), an
engine based on the Australian engine then at Watford, Horton from the Moors Valley railway and a another Tinkerbell locomotive, the then committee decided
to buy Owd Rosie. The cynical minded might say it was the price!!!.
Owd Rosie has done stirling work over the years, pulling upto 8 coach trains on occassions around the SNBR. She has seen many liveries in her time at the railway
including the infamous "Swanley improved engine red". After her last mechanical rebuild in 2005, where the motion was re-bushed, she also received new shaped tanks, and a
rounded dome. With all this going it was obvious the "improved" engine red had to go, and so now the old girl is in a more sensible livery similar to the LBSC brown livery with
straw lining.
In 2015 the Boiler was condemned by the boiler examiner, a new boiler will be ordered in late 2015/early 2016 with the new boiler expected to arrive a good year after the order
