Space/Click. Timis was built in 1925 as LMS 3F, '7147' to shunt trucks at Euston until 1929, when he started to bounce around yards. In 1934, his number was changed to ‘7307’. when World War II started, Timis was sent to the larger stations to help shunt the coaches for the bigger engine evacuating people from London. Timis would go to multiple stations a week until one of the engines at one of the big stations had derailed, the station master quickly gave Timis the job of taking the passengers to safety. Timis finally made at to the country side after a long and exhausting trip. After World War II ended in 1945, Timis went to Swansea station in wales, he served as it's station pilot until 1948 when the Big Four merged into British Railways. Timis was given the number 47327 and was sent to St Pancras to help out with the work there until 1967 When he was withdrawn and left in a siding in Barry for many years... The HWR opened in 1968, with its first 2 locomotives: Ivatt (GNR Class C1) and Hellen (LBSC A1X). It was on an island near bridlington. The island became a popular tourist attraction. People could enter the island using a bridge, which had a railway bridge next to it, which helped new locomotives enter the railway via British railways. By 1980, the island already had 13 locomotives operating, and one being restored. And in 1981, the owner of the railway went to Barry scrapyard in search of 2 locomotives: one to pilot a newly built station, and one to pull goods trains. Eventually, he found a GWR 5101 class named Oliver, and an LMS 3F, called 47307. The engines on the HWR gave him a name quickly though, they called him “Timis” because he looked like Thomas the tank engine from a new tv show that had just came out. At the works there was a mix up, and Timis was given the number 61 instead of the number 16. In 1990, after the first DOWT event on the railway, he was painted with the correct number on his side. Years later and Timis still works at that small station, and likely will for many years to come.
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