Furness Railway No. 3
Preserved British steam locomotive
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The Furness Railway No.3, nicknamed "Old Coppernob", is a preserved English steam locomotive. It acquired its nickname because of the copper cladding to its dome-shaped "haystack" firebox.[2][3][4]
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History
It was built in 1846 by Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy of Liverpool,[5] a company with which the Furness Railway's first locomotive superintendent James Ramsden had been an apprentice. It is an 0-4-0 version of Edward Bury's popular bar-frame design of the period, with iron bar frames and inside cylinders, and is historically significant as the only survivor of this type in the United Kingdom. It is also one of the few preserved engines from the Furness Railway, whose Indian red livery it carries.
Withdrawal
It handled all traffic on the Furness Railway with three similar engines for around six years. Later it was used for shunting around the docks at Barrow-in-Furness and on local duties, being withdrawn in 1900 after nearly 55 years of service.[6][7]
Preservation
It is now housed in the National Railway Museum, York. It has shrapnel damage from German bombs, received during World War II when it was displayed in a glass pavilion at Barrow-in-Furness station.
In February 2007, No. 3 had one of its shedplates stolen at York. In 2014, it was placed on loan to the Dresden Transport Museum in Germany to take part in an exhibition celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Leipzig–Dresden railway due to its similarities to early locomotives built for the line.[8]
