A Ride On Kerr Stuart Wren 3128 "Roger" Around The Statfold Barn Garden Railway - 11/07/21

A Ride On Kerr Stuart Wren 3128 "Roger" Around The Statfold Barn Garden Railway - 11/07/21
A gentle ride around the garden railway which was the first railway at the Statfold Barn Railway. Credits to the driver who was also also Fireman and Guard!
Roger is a 0-4-0ST, Built on the 31st of July 1918. In June of 1959 it was sold to a Canadian collector. In 2013 Charles Matthews the owner contacted Statfold about a complete overhaul for 3128. However due to differences in certification between the UK and North America meant the loco could not return and subsequently was purchased by Statfold.
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The engine was named after the late Roger Matthews, son of Charles (Senior). His brother, Charles built a relatively short (~500') track around the house that he and Roger had lived in their entire lives. On Charles's passing, it returned to Statford.
Charles Senior had amassed quite a collection- the majority of the collection was passed to the Ontario Agricultural Museum, forming something like 50% of the collection. He was a house mover, as were his sons, who were great supporters of the Ontario Electric Railway Museum in Rookwood. The collection extended to 3 Sentinel waggons, the superheated Garret wagon, a pair of plowing engines, Micheal, King of the Scarlets, the Wren (Roger) and a 2' gauge Cranberry Engine (ex Bobber Gibbs). The Kirkfield (Ontario) 0-4-0's passed through their ownership, (the old pair, not the last in use), and a mountain of other stuff- Kirkfield side dump hoppers, ford T engines, maple leaf barbed wire....there was mountains (literally !) of stuff in the yard. It's my understanding that King of the Scarlets was run in the early 1960's at Langstaff.
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In steam, in Langstaff, Ontario. David Powell and Larry with it