Tags: Locomotive.
Polar Bear is a Bagnall steam locomotive built in 1905 for the Groudle Glen Railway to supplement the similar but slightly smaller Sea Lion. The two Bagnalls were temporarily taken out of service in the 1920s when they were replaced by a pair of battery locomotives. These proved unsatisfactory and Polar Bear and Sea Lion were returned to traffic. The railway was closed for the duration of World War II and when the line reopened in the late 1940s only Polar Bear was returned to traffic.
