[2][3][4] It was built in 1846 by Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy of Liverpool,[5] a company with which the Furness Railway's first locomotive superintendent James Ramsden had been an apprentice.

It is an 0-4-0 version of Edward Bury's popular bar-frame design of the period, with iron bar frames and inside cylinders, and is historically significant as the only survivor of this type in the United Kingdom.

Latterly it was used for shunting around the docks at Barrow-in-Furness and on local duties, being withdrawn in 1900, completing nearly 55 years of service.

It has shrapnel wounds from German bombs, acquired during World War II when it was displayed in a glass pavilion at Barrow-in-Furness station.

In 2014, it was placed on loan to the Dresden Transport Museum in Germany to take part in an exhibition celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Leipzig–Dresden railway due to its similarities to early locomotives built for the line.