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Kenavon Railway Society's aim is to assist with the preservation of "Huntley & Palmers Number One", a standard-gauge fireless steam locomotive built by W. G. Bagnall of Stafford (works number 2473) in 1932. It is currently stored at Wallingford station, Oxfordshire, on the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway and is awaiting restoration. It is in the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway's car park at Wallingford but you can only see it on operating days. Please telephone 01491 835067 (24 hour recorded message) for confirmation of opening times before travelling. This locomotive worked at Huntley & Palmer's biscuit factory in Reading from 1932 until the factory's railway closed in 1969. Being a fireless locomotive it has no boiler. Instead it has a reservoir which was charged with steam from the factory's boilers. It could then run on the stored steam for 2-4 hours before a re-charge was needed. The name "Kenavon" is derived from "Kenavon Drive", a road which serves a retail park built on the site of the former Huntley & Palmers biscuit factory in Reading.
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