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Stanley the GAR number 267

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Here we have Stanley the Stirling Single. He is a rather mean steam engine, pompous and a bully of other engines he thinks and feels are below his standard, and that is a lot of them.
GAR is standing for Great Anglian Railway. And he originally worked for Great Northern Railway.

I shall add more details tomorrow. I am not one to draw faces on steam engines but I might. He is a living steam engine.

- 1870: Created for the Great Northern Railway and called Stanley.
- 1899: Withdrawn from service and put into a shed.
- 1903: Bought by one of Eddie Barkers ancestors, Lord Douglas Doghouse, as well as two carriages
- 1904: Lord Doghouse buys four more carriages for his collect to make himself and his friends around Counties of London Anglia and Essex. A shed is built to contain Stanley and the six carriages.
- 1905: Stanley is taken on a tour and visits Perth in Scotland.
- 1909: Stanley tours the three home nations and only had one accident with help needed from a farm and its tractor to get him back on the rails. Emile and his owners business moves to Suffolk Harbour Railway. Emile dislikes it as the sheds were disused cowsheds. The ownership of the railway is extended.
- 1910 Stanley had to have a shorted funnel after damaging it on the shed doorway, and a second derailment from the weaker rails.
- 1912: Stanley visits York and GNR Headquarters to meet his brothers and sisters.
- 1914: Returns to Suffolk Harbour Railway.
- 1919: Lord Doghouse dies.
- 1923: Stanley the Stirling was to be sold but, that fails, so he reminds in storage.
- 1928/29: The Doghouse family leaves the estate and the railway extension is reduced.
- 1932: Stanley is moved to Bedford and becomes an exhibit.
- 1935: King George the VI's jubilee. Stanley gets to see the King.
- 1937: Visited by the King again, and tours the east coast.
- 1939: Stanley and his six carriages sold to Doncaster Mining Railway. He is used to move coal trucks from the mines to where they are processed.
-1942: Stanley and the other carriages are sold and bought by a Lady Barker, and a rival of the Doghouse family. She uses Stanley as her private steam engine and carriages. Bought for £92,000. Lady Barker used Stanley on West Coast Railways but, she used more money than she had, and Stanley with the rest of the rolling stock were sold for £21,000 to cover some of her debts. She was put into jail.
- 1942 -1944: Stanley works on mining and taking the workers from town to work and back again.
- 1946: The mine closes down, and he is put into storage with the carriages and wagons.
- 1947: Barker Hall is abandoned, with Stanley and the rolling stock sold, and owned by a Lady Sarah Barker, moves them all to her sons home, in Norfolk.
- 1949: The railway line is sold to Hamilton family but over the years, the land changes hands multiple times.
- 1953: Lady Sarah died aged 89. Wife of Douglas Doghouse, possible.
- 1957: Barker (Doghouse) Hall is demolished. Stanley has been linked to the location for ten years but, not any longer. The remain track there is lifted up and moved to where Stanley is located. He is a witness to identity the rails and other equipment.
- 1957-1997: Stanley does have a few years working on East Anglican Railway before his contract to the county lines are removed. Repainted to light blue with EAR onto the side of his tenders.
Stanley goes around the estate and neighbouring lands after British Rail had the connection to the estate removed and so, Stanley could only go along the eight miles of private land owned by the Hamilton family. Stanley does visit other heritage railways but since he is owned by a very wealthy person running on an estate while, other railways are heritage and in public hands with volunteers. He still has the GNR on his side. 
- 1998: British Rail becomes National Rail, and permission is granted and the reconnection to the mainline occurs and more revenue trips and excursions are booked.
-2002: Works on North Norfolk Railway and Mid-Norfolk Railway as a guest engine but, first few times he overshot the end of the station and thought the two railways were still connected like the days of East Anglian Railway. He damages an old carriage into a station and with wood in his face, he goes to weaker rails, then buckle under him, he continues into bushes and digs himself down. After he is dug out, Harold Hamilton is told to take Stanley away and do not bring him back. 
- 2002-2003: Stanley had his wheels and underframe repaired. After this he runs around his own private railway as well as visiting Buckinghamshire Railway Centre and back to North Norfolk Railway with top and tail so, he does not get over enthusiastic and remains a money-earner and on the rails.
- 2010: Eddie Barker buys Stanley from the Hamilton Family as well as the carriages. They are sold as a reduction of assets. Repainted back into light green and to new company of Great Anglian Railway.
- 2014: Stanley is taken to the north and used on the new Cumbrian Coastal Line hauling some more modern carriages as his original ones are repaired and made into a better condition by restoration.

More to come later on.


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I like his colors. Nice job on him! and thanks for the credit :)