| It was transported to Auckland by truck in 1997 where it has been tidied up and
had a new steam certificate approved. It was repainted from the dark green colour
it was received in to Auckland blue. It also had one short foray to the Silverstream
Railway Society tracks in Upper Hutt for duties as a friend of Thomas on the first
Thomas the Tank weekend run by that society.
The little Bagnall is a favourite on depot open days. It is used to give rides
around the depot at Parnell. As it is the smallest engine owned by Mainline it
the most child friendly. The locomotive is also used to assist in lighting up
the oil-fired locomotives. Steam is passed from the Bagnall into the larger locomotive
to build up enough pressure to heat the oil and operate the atomiser for the oil
firing.
It had its first public run with Mainline Steam on the 29th of May 1994. |