Buxton

Buxton is one of the B4 twins (the other being Burton) 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
Buxton was built at Brighton Works in December 1899 following the introduction of the new B4 class 4-4-0 by Robert J. Billinton that time. He was built to help decrease the workload on already veteran Stroudley D2 express locomotives Drake and Derek as the trains increased in size and the timetable more stricter.

Personality
Buxton is normally a cheeky locomotive who picks on Drake and Derek when either are worn out, undergoing maintenance or are running late. Despite this, Buxton is always keen on keeping is trains on time without fail or delays.

Livery
Buxton 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, sharing the same name with H1 4-4-2 No. 39).

Trivia
Buxton is named after the famous spa town in Derbyshire. Buxton was the only member of the class formerly owned by the W&S to be converted into B4X specifications. This was carried out by the NWR in 1918.

Buxton could be an equal to either Bill or Donald from the Railway Series.

Buxton appears to be a timekeeper as he always tries to keep to schedule during his express runs from Vicarstown to Brendam. This could be a reference to Sir Kay from 'The Locomotives of British Railways: Brighton' by TFL Creative Media on YouTube, who was introduced in the second episode 'Sir Kay's Misjudgement' uploaded in October 2018.

Buxton, along with Burton, is one of the last locomotives delivered to the W&S before the bankruptcy of the Sodor & Mainland Railway (S&M) in 1901.

Buxton was officially the first locomotive receive a NWR livery, the so-called "Period 1" livery, following reboilering to B4X specifications.