Hackworth

Hackworth was an express locomotive built for the Sodor & Mainland Railway (S&M) and inherited by the Wellsworth & Suddery Railway (W&S) in 1901. He is only one of two late-era S&M locomotives to be known by name but was sadly scrapped despite an attempt to save him by Oxford in 1905.

Bio
Hackworth was built by Beyer, Peacock & Company sometime in the 1890s during the infamous rivalry between the S&M and the W&S between 1894 and 1901 and one of the railway's secret weapons to bankrupt the W&S. This failed and he was inherited by their rival in 1901 when the S&M forged for bankruptcy and most of its stock inherited and placed into W&S ownership while others that were beyond economic repair were scrapped, he being among those inherited. As a result, Hackworth was reallocated to passenger operations to Great Waterton until 1904, when he was deemed by the management of the Wellsworth & Suddery Railway as "beyond economic repair" due to the increasing costs for his overhaul, which was going to happen next year.

In April 1905, Oxford discovered him in the scrap sidings of Crovan's Gate Works, among the damaged rolling stock from a derailment at Cronk two weeks before and noticed how he still displayed the Sodor & Mainland's green livery. After explaining to the GWR-designed tank engine that he was going to be scrapped and had given up on any hope due to his design's age, Hackworth told Oxford to simply leave and forget about him as no one will remember him in the end, thanks to a lack of photographs. Oxford didn't want to give up on him and promised to have him saved from being cut up.

Livery
Hackworth is painted in the standard S&M locomotive green.