Singapore "prisoner of war" locomotive to be overhauled

[John Ashworth]

Rocks by Rail launches £40,000 locomotive appeal

The locomotive was built in the UK in 1936 before being delivered to the Royal Navy Dockyard in Singapore. On the 15th of February 1942, the locomotive alongside 80,000 allied servicemen became prisoners of war to the Japanese upon the Fall of Singapore. Often found working alongside parties of prisoners unloading ships in the dockyard, the locomotive was repatriated in 1953 and finished its military service at Chatham Naval Dockyard in 1972. The locomotive was later preserved in Rutland from 1979 and is now a registered UK war memorial to FEPOWs and was restored to full working order in 1998 and last steamed during 2008...