Cotmania. Vol. VI. 1930-31

Photograph of 0-4-2 Engine "Lion"

From the programme of ­the Centenary R[ailwa]y Celebrations L'Pool-Sept:'30

Exhibit No. 3—LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY 0-4-2 ENGINE "LION."
During the Centenary Celebrations this interesting old engine will work the "Train of 1830"
and carry passengers on the Ring Railway.
After the Celebrations, arrangements have been
made for the 44 Lion " complete with tender,
to be given a place of honour at Lime Street Station,
Liverpool, as a permanent exhibit.
This locomotive was built for the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway in 1838 by Messrs. Todd,
Kitson and Laird of Leeds, and in all probability
was the first engine made by that firm. It was
No. 57 of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,
and was taken over with other stock by the Grand
Junction Railway in August, 184$. Upon further
amalgamation, it became No. 116 of the London
and North Western Railway, which, by the
Railways Act of 1923, became a constituent
Company of the London Midland and Scottish
Railway.
The " Lion " was sold for the sum of £400 by the
London and North Western Railway Company
to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board on the
26th May, 1859, and worked as a pumping engine
at Princes Graving Dock from that date until
August, 1928, when it was presented to the Liver­-
pool Engineering Society, whose property it remains
in order that it might be preserved for the city of
Liverpool. It has been restored during the present
year, in the Crewe Shops of the London Midland
and Scottish Railway Company, with the assistance
of Mr. J. G. H. Warren, an authority on early
locomotive design. The frames, cylinders, valve
and driving gear, wheels and axles are original, and
the " Lion " is probably the only locomotive now
in working order having the original gab valve
motion.