Burton

Burton is one of the B4 twins (the other being Buxton) that was owned by the Wellsworth & Suddery Railway (W&S) from 1899 to the formation of the North Western Railway (NWR) in 1915. He's one of the railway's main express locomotives after his arrival with Burton in late 1899.

Biography
Burton was built at Brighton Works in December 1899 as part of a batch of two Billinton B4s for the W&S on Sodor.

Livery
Burton is painted in the standard Wellsworth & Suddery locomotive livery.

Basis
Buxton is based off a LB&SCR B4 class 4-4-0. 33 were built from December 1899 to September 1902 by Brighton Works and Sharp Steward & Co. for express duties to replace the Stroudley B1 0-4-2s on the same duty from 1882. They were replaced on express duties by larger designs such as Douglas E. Marsh's Atlantics (4-4-2s) and Lawson Billinton's large tank engines (J1 and J2) and 17 were rebuilt by Lawson Billinton with superheaters based upon his K class 2-6-0, being classified as B4X. Withdrawals occurred from 1934 to 1951 with all scrapped. All B4s carried names accosiated with the British Empire or the LB&SCR such as royal titles (e.g. No. 42 'His Majesty'), nations/colonies under British rule (e.g. No. 48 'Australia') or English counties served by the LB&SCR (e.g. No. 52 'Sussex) with one named for public relations (No. 54 'La France' during the French president's visit in 1913).

Trivia
Burton is named after the famous brewing town in Staffordshire.

Unlike his brother Buxton, Burton was not converted to B4X specifications.

Burton could be an equal to either Ben or Douglas from the Railway Series.

Burton was the last locomotive delivered to the W&S before the bankruptcy of the Sodor & Mainland Railway (S&M) in 1901.

Burton was the last large Wellsworth & Suddery locomotive in service, withdrawn in 1942 but re-entered service two weeks later. He was destroyed a year later by the Luftwaffe in what could only be seen as a heroic sacrifice.


 * His actions prevented heavy losses in Kirk Ronan.
 * According to a film showing his death, Burton's last words were, "Buxton, I'm coming brother."