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Trout

30/7/1949       Purchased by BTC (D&IWE), NW Division fleet

1/10/1953       Passed to BTC (BTW)

3/10/1958       Re-Registered at Northwich No 102

1/1/1963         Passed to BWB

1964-1967       Hired to Willow Wren Canal Transport Services (NW Division)

1968                Transferred to maintenance fleet

1968-1970?      Hired to Anderton Canal Carrying Co Ltd, Northwich

1971                Sold to private ownership

1971-?             Hired to Warwickshire Flyboat Co, Stockton, for use as camping boat

by 2008           Under-cloth cabin conversion fitted

Engines            9 hp Bolinder replaced by 15 hp Bolinder in 1950s. Lister HA2 engine installed in 1971. Lister JP2 engine installed in 2001, which was removed and put into Monarch when a Kelvin J4 was installed in 2005.  The Kelvin J4 was removed a few years ago and a JP2M was installed, which is still the current engine.

Renumbered 214/51 when acquired by BWB.

Captained by George Page in the 1960s, then by Clark Walters in the 1970s. Now based at Shardlow. Partial conversion under canvas. Currently paired with ex-LMS butty Norah (now known by its Willow Wren name Dabchick.)