PRESS RELEASE, 7th November 2007

Find out about the Biscuit Train!

Chairman of Kenavon Railway Museum, Rex Hora, will speak at a  
meeting of Berkshire Industrial Archaeology Group about Huntley 
and Palmers Locomotive No.1 (popularly known as "The Biscuit 
Train").  

The meeting will be held on Monday, 19th November 2007 at The 
Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road, Reading 
(corner of Acacia Road), starting at 8pm.  There is no charge 
but a donation towards the cost of room hire would be appreciated.

If the main museum entrance is closed, please go to the porch 
at the left of the main entrance and press the bell marked "BIAG".

Notes for Editors

Huntley and Palmers Locomotive No.1 was built by W. G. Bagnall 
of Stafford in 1932.  It is a fireless locomotive and ran on 
stored steam obtained from the factory's boilers.   Fireless 
locomotives were popular with food and pharmaceutical factories 
because they produced no smoke, soot or ash, and with oil 
refineries and paper mills because of their low fire risk.

No.1, and sister locomotive No.2, hauled goods through a tunnel 
between Huntley and Palmer's biscuit factory (on the site now 
occupied by Kenavon Drive) and the Great Western Railway's goods 
yard in Napier Road.  The tunnel still exists and will soon be 
re-opened as a footpath and cycleway connecting Kenavon Drive 
with King's Meadow.

Huntley and Palmer's railway system closed in 1969.  Locomotive 
No.2 was scrapped but No.1 was preserved, initially at Didcot 
and later in Somerset. It is currently stored on the Cholsey 
and Wallingford Railway at Wallingford.

The Kenavon Railway Museum Group (Rex Hora, Richard Standing and 
Neil Singleton) is co-operating with Reading Borough Council in 
an effort to return the locomotive to Reading and put it on 
public display.  Richard has built a 4mm scale model of No.1 and 
this will be on display at the meeting.

For further information contact Rex Hora:
Telephone: 0118 926 1902		
E-mail: kenavon@postmaster.co.uk