No.1 'Sutton Belle'

She was purchased as a kit of parts by Douglas Clayton before the first war 1914/18. He planed to build the loco to run in his garden at Coseley Hall near Wolverhampton, but the locomotive was not started until 1930. By this time he had moved to Hardwick Manor near Tewkesbury. She was finished in 1933 and was in Great Western colours with 'Great Western' lettering on the tender and with a boiler made by Messrs/H&S Dance. Douglas Clayton Past away in 1947 and Tom Hunt acquired all of the railway for Sutton including the locomotive and parts for a second locomotive (eventually to become Sutton Flyer). When the locomotive got to Sutton she was repainted into Royal Maroon, named Sutton Belle and put to work.

No.1 is seen with the set of Hardwick Manor coaches, a reminder of their previous life together near Tewkesbury - © John Tidmarsh Collection