One of the directors of the Docks and Harbour Railways in King's Lynn was William Burkitt, a self-made local business man who had the means to order his own locomotive from Alfred Dodman & Company of Kings Lynn. The loco was named 'Gazelle'. This is the story of that locomotive. It pulls, Colonel Stephens, King's Lynn and the Shropshire and Montgomery Light Railway all into one story! http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/07/21/gazelle
Fantastic! I wasn’t expecting the end where it was presereved. Chances are I’ve seen it at Beverley. And I kept thinking... William Burkitt? Where do I know that name... then of course you mention the LD&ECR and it all made sense!
Gazelle is known to have taken charge of two different coaches in its time on the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway. The first was a cut down version of a London Horse Tram. The second used the same chassis with a body from a Wolseley-Siddeley Railcar which Colonel Stephens first used on the Selsey Tramway. That Railcar was itself a signioficantly modifies rail-lorry based on a Wolseley-Siddeley chassis........ http://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/07/27/gazelles-trailers
