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Headline : Behind The Scenes, North Yorks Moors Railway, Grosmont North Yorkshire, UK
Caption : Picture Credit Charlotte Graham
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Paul Middleton with Number 8 Lucie

Lucie was Built by the Society John Cockerill in Seraing Belgium 1890.
A type IV vertical boiler locomotive, 352 of these small engines were built between 1883 and 1949. The design was never changed over the 66-year production run and they proved very successful and sold all over Europe.
Number 8 was sold new to the Tramway of East Brussels in 1890. She had a short working life as a tram, working from Place Madou to the Brussels city cemetery in Evere. Steam trams replaced Horse drawn trams but were not successful due to the noise and smoke they emitted. They were all replaced by Electric trams by 1897. Tramways of East Brussels had 8 steam trams, numbers 1-6 were built by Krauss in Germany. Numbers 7 & 8 were built by Cockerill.
Lucie would have taken passengers (Dead or alive) to the city cemetery as well as freight.
On the 26th August 1890 the Evere cemetery unveiled a monument to commemorate the fallen British officers of the battle of Waterloo. It was sanctioned by Queen Victoria and the remains of 16 officers were transferred there between 1890-1894. This was a large Event with Steam ships from England to Ostend. The Duke of Cambridge was present and addressed the crowds. Lucie would have been very busy at this event and quite possibly helped transferred the remains of the officers.
Lucie was sold to the Vieille Montagne zinc mine in Angleur, Belgium after the East Brussels Tramway company was bought out by the SNCF who re-gauged the tramway to meter gauge. Little is known about her time here, but she would have performed the usual industrial locomotive tasks of hauling wagons around the mine.
She was next sold to a sugar Factory in Silly (yes there is a place called silly!), Belgium. She worked here from the early 1900s until 1940. Here she moved wagons full of sugar beat around the factory and moved wagons onto the nearby mainline. We have the only known Photo of Lucie at work taken here, see if you can spot her.
Lucie next appeared abandoned in a shed during the 1980s at a mining supplies company called Charles Foucquet & Cie in Belgium. She and 4 other Cockerills were bought by private individuals and shipped to the UK. Lucie was restored by Dorothea Restorations and completed 1988, she ran until year 2000 at t Peak Rail and the Middleton Railway.
Lucie was bought by NYMR’s Piglet and family and is currently being restored back to her original 1890s condition, hopefully completed Autumn 2019.
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