Yeo (locomotive)

Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Yeo

Yeo and train approaching Woody Bay in Southern livery

Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Builder	Manning Wardle, Leeds
Serial number	1361
Build date	1898

Specifications
Configuration	2-6-2T
Gauge	1 ft 11 ¹⁄₂ in (597 mm)
Leading dia.	2 ft 0 in (0.610 m)
Driver dia.	2 ft 9 in (0.838 m)
Trailing dia.	2 ft 0 in (0.610 m)
Wheelbase	Coupled: 6 ft 6 in (1.981 m) Total: 17 ft 9 in (5.410 m)
Length	22 ft 4 in (6.81 m) over buffer beams
Width	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Height	8 ft 11 in (2.72 m)
Loco weight	27.25 long tons (27.69 t)
Fuel type	Coal
Firebox: • Firegrate area	8.85 sq ft (0.822 m²)
Heating surface	383 sq ft (35.6 m²)
Cylinders	Two, outside
Cylinder size	10.5 in × 16 in (267 mm × 406 mm)
Valve gear	Joy

Career
Operators	Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, Southern Railway
Numbers	L&B: Yeo, SR: E759
Locale	Devon, South West England
Last run	29 September 1935
Scrapped	December 1935

Yeo was one of three narrow gauge 2-6-2T steam locomotives built by Manning Wardle in 1898 for the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway. Following the railway's closure in 1935 it was scrapped.

Yeo, like all the locomotives on the L&B, was named after a local river with a three-letter name, in this case the River Yeo.

This naming tradition has been continued in the 21st Century, with Lyd (a replica of Lew, the fourth locomotive built to this basic design) operational on the Ffestiniog Railway and the Welsh Highland Railway. It had been intended that Lyd would receive Yeo's original chimney (which survived on a steamroller for 62 years) but it was found to be too corroded for further use.

The naming tradition has also been applied to a Kerr Stuart Joffre class locomotive currently running on the revived L&B, which has been named Axe, and a Maffei locomotive named Sid.

A set of frames for a new Yeo were built by Winson Engineering in 2000 and are currently stored waiting for construction to continue when funds are available.

A 7 ¹⁄₄ inches (180 mm)gauge model was built by Milner Engineering in 1979 and worked in Buckfastleigh before moving to the Gorse Blossom Railway in 1984. In 2009 the loco was purchased by a member of the L&B.

A 12 ¹⁄₄ inches (310 mm) gauge model was built by David Curwen in 1978 for the Réseau Guerlédan Chemin de Fer Touristique in Brittany, France. When the line closed, it transferred to the Fairbourne Railway in North Wales

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