The Railway Magazine – July 2019

Industrial Steam Track Record

76 •The Railway Magazine• July 2019

Foxfield RSH on

hire in Northants

ROBERT Stephenson &

Hawthorns 0-4-0ST No. 15

Eustace Forth(7063/1942) is

spending the rest of 2019 on

hire to the Northampton &

Lamport Railway.

The Foxfield Railway-based

loco arrived at Pitsford &

Brampton at the end of May

direct from the NorthYorkshire

Moors Railway, where it had

been on hire since the end of

last year.

BarclayGlenfield

up for sale

ANDREW Barclay0-4-0CT

No. 1Glenfield(880/1902) is

being offered for sale through

HeritageTransport Supplies

following the death of its

previous owner.

The former Glenfield &

Kennedy crane tank has not

run for several years, and is

currently located at the Ribble

Steam Railway in Preston.

Serious expressions of

interest should be made

to Martyn Ashworth via

[email protected]

Chasewater Hunslet

boiler completed

THE overhaul of the Chasewater

Railway’s Hunslet 0-6-0STHolly

Bank No. 3(3783/1953Darfield

No. 1) has reached another

milestone with a successful

hydraulic boiler test on June 6.

The boiler was expected

to receive its first fire at

Loughborough-based

Locomotive Maintenance

Services during the following

week, after which it would be

returned to Chasewater.

B&K starts second

Barclay overhaul

ANDREW Barclay 0-4-0STWest

AyrAreaNo.21(2284/1950) left

the National Mining Museum

at Newtongrange at the end

of May for a contract cosmetic

overhaul by the Scottish

Railway Preservation Society

(SRPS) at the Bo’ness & Kinneil

Railway.

Its place at the museum

has been taken by fellow

Barclay 0-6-0STLady Victoria

(1458/1916), which was

cosmetically restored by the

SRPS earlier this year.

When the work is

complete No. 21 will return to

Newtongrange.

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No.813returnstotheNorth

East for Tanfield ‘legends’ gala

FORMERBackworth Collieries

0-6-0ST No. 12, better known in

preservation as Great Western

Railway No. 813, returned to the

Tanfield Railway to celebrate its

North East heritage at the line’s

Legends of Industry gala on

June 14-16.

The 1901-built‘Swindonised’

Hudswell, Clarke last visited

Tanfield in 2007, and again was

present courtesy of the GWR

813 Preservation Fund and the

Severn Valley Railway.

Its appearance at the

gala coincided with the 85th

anniversary of its arrival at the

Northumberland collieries from

the PortTalbot Railway system in

SouthWales.

No. 813 ran in the guise it

carried when it first arrived at

Backworth, complete with No. 12

on the cab sides and minus its

safety valve bonnet.

In later years at Backworth

No. 813 lost more of its GWR

fittings, including its chimney,

receiving a new boiler and

the number 11 in 1950. It was

withdrawn in 1967 and sold

immediately into preservation.

The second guest loco was

another‘icon’of the North East’s

industrial railways. Seaham

Harbour Dock Co. 0-4-0ST No. 18

was built by Stephen Lewin of

Poole, back in 1877, and today

is one of the star attractions at

Beamish Museum, just a stone’s

throw fromTanfield.

The diminutive loco is not

fitted with vacuum brakes, and

therefore spent much of its time

on the loose-coupled coal trains,

or shunting in the vicinity of

Marley Hill.

The two visitors shared duties

with the resident fleet, including

Robert Stephenson 0-6-0T

Twizell(2730/1891), ex-Keighley

Gas Department Hawthorn Leslie

0-4-0ST No. 2 (2859/1911) and

RSH 0-4-0STSir Cecil A Cochrane

(7409/1948).

The opportunity was also

taken to pair No. 813 up with

Tanfield’s own ex-Backworth loco

• RSH‘Austerity’0-6-0ST No. 49
  (7098/1943).
  Between them the six
  locomotives worked passenger
  sets between Andrews House,
  Sunniside and EastTanfield, with
  the coal train predominantly
  working between Marley Hill and

Sunniside, with some trips over

the full line at intervals.

Unfortunately, the 1854-built

loco shed at Marley Hill – the

oldest operating shed in the

world – was closed to the public

owing to the state of its roof,

which is now in need of urgent

repairs.

A £35,000 appeal to pay for the

work has been set up online at

https://tinyurl.com/yykkfyyf

Boiler back in frames of

Darlington group’s Peckett

THE 10-yearly overhaul of Darlington Railway Preservation

Society’s Peckett‘W7 Special’0-4-0STNorthern Gas Board

No. 1(2142/1953) is on the home stretch at the group’s base

in the former Stockton & Darlington Railway Merchandise

Station.The boiler was returned to the frames in late April,

and the cab, chimney and blastpipe fitted.

Final reassembly is now underway along with painting.

The loco is pictured in the somewhat cramped workshop

on May 18.MICHAEL DENHOLM

‘Austerity’andAvelingjoin

Wansford-based fleet at NVR

HUNSLET‘Austerity’0-6-0ST No. 3193 is

spending part of the summer on hire at

the NeneValley Railway (NVR).

Norfolk Heritage Steam Railway

Ltd’s (NHSRL) 1944-built loco formally

entered service at Bressingham in early

May following the completion of its

overhaul.

It made its public debut at the

museum’s Heritage Steam gala on May

4-6, but has been quickly snapped up

by the NVR to replace on-hire‘64XX’

0-6-0PT No. 6430, which is returning

to its Llangollen Railway home to

work summer services.The visit will

enable NHSRL to undertake some final

completion work on the loco and

all-important running-in prior to it

taking up duties on NVR passenger

services.

Another industrial loco has also

joined theWansford-based fleet for a

long-term hire period – Aveling & Porter

2-2-0WTThe Blue Circle(9449/1926).

The loco will remain at the NVR until

owner Mick Smith finds a buyer for the

former Holborough Cement Company

machine.

FUNDRAISING PLAN AS NENEVALLEY GIVES

GREEN LIGHTTODEREK CROUCHOVERHAUL

NENEValleyRailway-based Hudswell,

Clarke 0-6-0STDerekCrouch

(1539/1924) could be restored to full

working order after the NVR board

green lit a proposal by the railway’s

Small Loco Group.

The group has already completed

a full cosmetic overhaul of the

ex-Wissington Light Railway loco,

and is currently in the process of

carrying out a similar task on former

Nassington ironstone Hunslet 0-6-0ST

Jacks Green.

Derek Crouchholds a special place

in the NVR’s history, having come

to the railway on loan from Derek

Crouch (Contractors) Ltd in 1972.

Two years later it worked the line’s

first preservation-era train in 1974,

but has not run since 1982.

The Small Loco Group will soon

begin fundraising for the restoration,

which it hopes to have completed in

time for its 100th birthday, and the

50th anniversary of hauling the first

train, in 2024.

Left: Backworth

Collieries 0-6-0ST

No. 12 (GWR

No. 813) with the

first train of the

day at theTanfield

Railway gala on

June 15.

DAVE HEWITT

Below:The

diminutive Lewin

0-4-0ST No. 18

busies itself at

Marley Hill yard on

June 15.

HENRY ELLIOTT

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