The North Bay railway fleet

The North Bay Railway is probably unique in Britain - it was diesel-worked from the beginning and didn’t receive its first steam locomotive until 2016! That locomotive is Georgina, a 20in gauge version of W.G. Bagnall’s ‘Sipat’ 0‑4‑0ST design. It joined Neptune and Triton, built by Hudswell Clarke in 1931 and 1932, respectively. Although these two look like Gresley’s ‘A3’ 4‑6‑2s, the two locomotives are actually diesel hydraulics. The collection swelled in 2006 with the arrival of two more steam-outline diesel locomotives: 4‑6‑4TDH Robin Hood and 4‑6‑2DH Poseidon, both of a similar vintage but built for the Golden Acre Park Railway in Leeds. Robert Hudson of Leeds supplied ten toast-rack bogie coaches, each with 20 seats, constructed by Robert Hudson Ltd, Leeds. In recent years, some were fitted with a canvas roof. Ten of the original coach frames are still in use, several coaches were rebuilt in 1991 and all were rebuilt in 1998 with fibreglass bodies as semi-opens, providing limited protection against the weather. Two further fully enclosed coaches were built by Rail Restorations North East in Shildon in 2007, using chassis from Golden Acre Park Railway. Freight stock includes: a bogie flat converted from an original coach chassis; a four-wheel hopper wagon, a bogie parcels van for permanent way use, two four-wheel mine car frames and a small flat wagon to carry permanent way tools and equipment.