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Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn [8] 1891 542 0-4-0 ST: 2 ft (610 mm) Dinorwic Quarry: Cloister: Statfold Barn Railway: Donated by Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust; previously at Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre and Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum [9] 1891 554 0-4-0 ST: 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm)
A narrow gauge Hunslet type locomotive built by the members of the society. [1] 7 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch gauge Black 5, number 5241, built by a local engineer and donated to the society. [1] 7 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch gauge "Nigel", a Hercules class locomotive [1] 7 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch gauge "Nefyn", a narrow gauge Reemus class locomotive [1] 7 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch gauge ...
In 1870, Hunslet constructed its first narrow gauge engine Dinorwic, a diminutive 1 ft 10 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (578 mm) gauge 0-4-0 ST for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis. This engine, later renamed Charlie , was the first of 20 similar engines built for this quarry and did much to establish Hunslet as a major builder of quarry engines.
The North Ings Farm Museum is a working farm museum containing a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway, running on a circuit of 1 ⁄ 4 mile (0.40 km). It is located at Dorrington, between Lincoln and Sleaford, in Lincolnshire. The museum includes agricultural machinery and tractors, commercial vehicles, portable steam pumps and a fairground organ.
Rebuilt in 1961 by Hunslet (works number 3879). [citation needed] 1945 Vulcan Foundry: 5309 War Department 75319 68072: Peak Rail: Sold to NCB after World War II, numbered 72, returned to service in April 2013 at Llangollen Railway, [citation needed] from 2015 at Mangapps railway museum. 1945 RSH: 7289 : War Department 71480
Loco N°13 from the Guinness Brewery. The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum collection began in the 1950s when the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society (TRPS) was the first voluntary society in the world to take over and run a public passenger carrying railway. Narrow-gauge railways were becoming redundant and their equipment scrapped.
Maid Marian operated at the Bressingham Steam Museum from 1967 to 1971, before going to the Llanberis Lake Railway until 1975, [8] and then to the Bala Lake Railway. [7] It returned to Llanberis for the 2011 gala. [4] Israel Newton built a new boiler in 2006. [9]
The Bala Lake Railway, which runs on 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in)-gauge preserved rolling stock, is a member of the Great Little Trains of Wales. The railway now has the largest collection of historic narrow-gauge quarry locomotives built specifically for the slate industry in North Wales by the Hunslet Engine Company in Leeds.