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Built in 1881 by Beyer Peacock as works number 1989 for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway as a class 25 (similar to No. 957), it was rebuilt in its present form of an 0-6-0ST in 1996 at Horwich Works. Now as a class 23, it was a common site on both local goods and shunting turns. It was allocated to Wigan locomotive shed in 1921 and remained there until it was disposed of by the LMS in April 1937 (now numbered 11456) being loaned and then sold to the Blainscough Colliery Co Ltd, which was nationalised in 1947. It ran on NCB metals until 1968.

It was restored by Yates Duxbury & Son Ltd. It then moved to the KWVR in 1971. It is once again undergoing restoration; the frames, smokebox and saddle tank are just about finished and the boiler has been steam tested. A few more jobs need to be done like putting the locomotive back together again, meaning completion is some way off, with significant work still required on the frames.