INDUSTRIAL ROUND-UP

Fletcher Jennings 0-4-0T No. 3 Captain Baxter:

The 1877-built engine made its last runs at the Bluebell Railway on October 6 before its boiler certificate expired. It worked two farewell specials from Sheffield Park to East Grinstead and Horsted Keynes, hauling the LNWR observation saloon, and is now on display in the new ‘Steamworks’ locomotive exhibition building at Sheffield Park.

Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0ST Works No. 1742 of 1946, ‘Millom’: The Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway has kept Buckinghamshire Railway Centre-based ‘Millom’ to assist with its ‘Santa’ trains. The ex-Ministry of Supply and Millom Haematite Works locomotive is working alongside recently arrived Bagnall 0-6-0ST Empress and Barclay 0-4-0ST Rosyth No. 1.

Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T No. 38 (Works No. 1823 of 1949): A pattern for new axleboxes has been completed to help move the former National Coal Board locomotive closer to re-wheeling. The rods and brake gear for the ‘Cornist’ class machine are in the workshop at the Tanfield Railway for machining.

Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns 0-4-0ST No. 15 ‘Eustace Forth’: Memories of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s early days have been rekindled as this 1942-built locomotive has been hired for steam-heating duties at Pickering during the Santa Special season. The 1942-built locomotive was based at the NYMR when first preserved in 1972, later moving to the National Railway Museum. It was de-accessioned from there in 2014 for overhaul at the Foxfield Railway.

RSH 0-6-0STs Nos. 56 and 63: Both locomotives have been donated to the East Midlands Railway Trust, the charity of the Great Central Railway (Nottingham), by their owners. The duo, which originally worked for Stewarts & Lloyds at Corby, have both run on the GCR(N) but are now out of ticket. An appeal is to be launched for funds to overhaul them.