WISSINGTON TO EARN NEW TYRES DURING SUMMER HOLIDAY AT BEAMISH

Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST Wissington is to spend the summer at the Beamish open-air museum in County Durham. Although contracts are still under discussion, Neil Sharpe – Chairman of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society which owns the 1938-built locomotive – said: “The deal is 99.9% done.” Wissington’s contracted 60 steamings over a threemonth period during Beamish’s peak summer season will pay for the locomotive’s new tyres, and the former British Sugar Corporation saddle tank will leave for Beamish after the end of its current stay at the Colne Valley Railway in June.