SINGLE LINES

■ CONSTRUCTION of a third new ‘Quarry Hunslet’ has commenced at Statfold with erection of the frames. This is a Statfold Engineering Ltd project rather than Statfold Narrow Gauge Museum Trust’s. The new loco will have a Hunslet works number and incorporate some components produced more than 15 years ago when 0-4-0STs Statfold (3903/2005) and Jack Lane (3904/2005) were constructed. The destination of the new loco is currently confidential.

■ TALYLLYN Railway (TR) trains carried black ribbons on July 2 marking the death of vice-president Winston McCanna. Born in 1936, his career included being chief mechanical engineer of the Army Railway Organisation in the 1980s while his 50-year involvement with the TR included periods as a fireman, chairman of the Preservation Society, a company director and latterly a Narrow Gauge Railway Museum trustee.

■ EX-RENISHAW Sugar

Estates Avonside 0-4-0T 1986/1926 Renishaw No. 2 arrived at Apedale Valley

Light Railway on June 13, having been purchased from Jeremy Martin by a Moseley Railway Trust member. It was imported from South Africa in 2020 but sold on after being deemed too large for Jeremy’s Richmond Light Railway. The loco requires a new boiler and restoration is a long-term project.

■ RESTORATION of Richmond Light Railway’s ex-Penrhyn Hunslet 0-4-0ST Elin will not be complete in time for it to appear at the Kent line’s August 14 Charity Steam Fair as hoped. A surprise visiting Hunslet will appear instead.

■ FFESTINIOG & Welsh Highland Railway’s BeyerPeacock 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garratt K1, currently at Statfold Barn Railway having been restored to steam, will visit the Welsh Highland Railway for ‘a few weeks’ in September.