This Day in History: 1928-10-02

02 October 1928

ICL (Internal Combustion Locomotive) No. 1 collided with ICL No. 2 near Muncaster Mill reducing the former's body to matchwood and distorting the frame of ICL No. 2. ICL No. 1 originally had a home built teak body on a channel steel chassis. Following the collision it was rebuilt to its present form.

The distorted frame of ICL No. 2, previously from the Heywood 0-6-0T steam locomotive Ella, was more or less straightened, but it was 'never the same again'. It developed engine problems in 1929, was withdrawn and eventually scrapped.