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Delivered to Betteshanger Colliery, Kent in 1954. Sold into preservation at Great Central Railway in November 1981, sold to North Norfolk Railway 1993. Bought by two Stainmore Railway Company directors in 2004, then spot-hired. Now back at Kirkby Stephen East, awaiting overhaul. [43] 1955 Hunslet: 3829 National Coal Board Gwili Railway
Once York North shed was opened in 1878, York South went into decline with the NER largely decamping to the North shed. That said, NER locomotives did continue to be stabled at York South. Visiting locomotives were for a period hosted at York South before using the Queen Street site from 1909 (after the south end of York station was re-modelled ...
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Class 25 is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive. They were introduced to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1876 by new locomotive superintendent William Barton Wright and 280 were built in total. Of these, 230 were later converted to saddle tanks by John Aspinall, to become L&YR Class 23. They were ...
Nunnington Hall west elevation Bridge. Nunnington Hall is a country house situated in the English county of North Yorkshire.The river Rye, which gives its name to the local area, Ryedale, runs past the house, flowing away from the village of Nunnington.
The class originates in the purchase of three saddle tank locomotives ordered from Vulcan Foundry in 1886. They were fitted with an 8-foot-10-inch (2.69 m) long, 3-foot-0-inch (914 mm) diameter boiler with a pressure of 140 lbf/in 2 (965 kPa) powering two outside 13-by-18-inch (330 mm × 457 mm) cylinders connected to 3-foot-0-inch (914 mm) driving wheels.
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699 "Swanscombe" is the oldest surviving Andrew Barclay locomotive, dating from 1891. 1245 represents the 0-6-0 side tank locomotives built by Andrew Barclay. 1952 is the only operational Fireless Andrew Barclay in the UK. 2139 "Salmon" is one of the 0-6-0 Andrew Barclay saddle tanks. 2248 "Albert" is a representative of the more powerful 16 ...
In 1906, Class 5 No. 869 suffered a boiler explosion at The Oaks station, north of Bolton. [32] The firebox crown sheet broke free of its rod stays and burst downwards, although without splitting. 57 of the 150 one-inch (25-mm) rod stays failed, the steam escaping through the remaining holes scalding the driver, although both footplate crew ...