Nelson: Saved by a Snow Plough.

Nelson, or was it was once known, Bradyll, is one of the oldest and perhaps most obscure locomotives in preservation. Date and builder unknown, it was once thought to have been built by Timothy Hackworth in 1835 but this is not so. Research in the 1990s by Drs Bailey & Glithero has revealed the locomotive to have been built in the late 1830s or early 1840s; receiving a new boiler in the mid-1850s before being converted to snow plough in 1876.
Nelson is also possibly the oldest surviving rail snow plough!
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