SINGLE LINES

■ ALAN Keef Ltd plans to hold an open day at its Ross-on-Wye works in late summer/ early autumn 2022 to mark the firm’s 50th anniversary. A centrepiece will be newbuild 0-4-2ST ‘Falcon’ No. 10, constructed for the Corris Railway, complete and ready to move to Corris with a view to entering service by the end of 2022. This agreed target depends on Corris Railway Society raising the £100,000 required to finish the loco.

■ JEREMY Martin has advertised 2ft gauge 0-4-0VBT Leary for sale. Constructed by Ffestiniog Railway volunteers some years ago in the style of a De Winton loco (albeit smaller), Leary arrived at Jeremy Martin’s private Richmond Light Railway in 2017. It subsequently received a significant rebuild, has a new 10-year boiler certificate, and is apparently capable of being re-gauged to 15in.

■ GARRATT ‘NG/G16’ No. 130 undertook its first loaded train trials on March 25. Three trips were successfully worked over the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and Waunfawr, with owner Peter Best reporting the engine to be running well. Steam was raised in No. 130 for the first time in January (RM, March) following overhaul by Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways. These were the first trains hauled by No. 130 since 1985, when it ceased working in South Africa.

■ WELSHPOOL & Llanfair Light Railway’s 1979-built ex-Taiwan Sugar Corporation Diema diesel No. 17 returned from Riley & Son (E) Ltd in Heywood, Lancashire, at the end of March. It went to Riley’s in December (RM, February) for work on the wheelsets and axleboxes, which required considerable dismantling.

■ RAVENGLASS & Eskdale Railway Society’s Clarkson 2-8-2 River Mite, withdrawn late last year, returned to Ravenglass on Tuesday, March 9 following overhaul at John Fowler Engineering, of Old Hall Farm in Bouth, Cumbria. It joined a new tender constructed for River Mite (replacing the original 1966-built tender), which was delivered on March 2. ■ LOCOMOTIVES have been moved into the new storage shed constructed at the Apedale Valley Light Railway. The building features 2ft, 2ft 6in, and 3ft gauge tracks.

■ LINCOLNSHIRE Coast Light Railway has completed construction of a wooden building forming a new booking office at Walls Lane station.