‘Austerity’ 0-6-0ST to make SVR passenger debut

ROBERT Stephenson & Hawthorns ‘Austerity’ 0-6-0ST No. 71516 Welsh Guardsman (7170/1944) will make its debut on Severn Valley Railway passenger trains this June. The loco will work ‘Wanderer’ services together with ‘57XX’ 0-6-0PT No. 7714 or ‘15XX’ 0-6-0PT No. 1501 on June 11 and again on the 18th. The ‘Austerity’ is currently on hire to the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway.