Steam Locomotive Information

Here is the photo album for War Department (NS) (SJ) No. 79257 (4464) (1931) 90733, a 2-8-0 located in Haworth, Yorkshire. If you would like to suggest additional photos for this album, please click here.

Pictured at Haworth as it arrived from Sweden with the modifications made there for their conditions.

Now returned to UK condition, this photo shows it running after restoration - and with the eight wheeled tender as built.

Moving off to attach to its train at Keighley, October 2014.

The wartime works plate. Would those workers at the Vulcan Foundry back in 1945 have imagined that the loco would still be running in the 21st Century?

A photo from 1974 with the loco standing in Haworth yard in it's ex-Swedish condition as No.1931 - centre of photo. Longmoor Military Railway No.118 'Brussels' on the right and 4F No 3924 on the extreme left.

The boiler, sheeted over and on a well wagon in June 2019.

2-8-0 No.90733 (WD 79257; SJ 1931) approaching Oxenhope on 7 November 2009. The loco carries a wreath of poppies to mark Remebrance Day, 11th November.

2-8-0 No.90733 (WD 79257; SJ 1931) approaching Oxenhope on 7 November 2009. The loco carries a wreath of poppies to mark Remembrance Day, 11th November.

2-8-0 No.90733 (WD 79257; SJ 1931) stands at Oxenhope station on 7 November 2009. The loco carries a wreath of poppies to mark Remembrance Day, 11th November.

2-8-0 No.90733 (WD 79257; SJ 1931) carried this nameplate on 7 November 2009 to mark forthcoming Remembrance Day, 11th November.

2-8-0 No.90733 firebox on 7 November 2009.

90733 (WD 79257 - SJ 1931) emerging from Mytholmes Tunnel, 28 June 2008


War Department (NS) (SJ) 2-8-0 No. 79257 (4464) (1931) 90733 Haworth, Yorkshire, UK	Location: Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Status: Overhaul