North British Railway 0-4-0ST No. 42 (68095)
Bo'ness, West Lothian, UK 		Location: Bo'ness & Kinneil railway
Status: Display
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Posted: Mar 20, 2022 @ 05:03:33 by Dale W Fickés
Would it not be appropriate to mark the builder, appropriately, as either North British Railway (NBR), or NBR (Cowlairs) just making the distinction from St Margaret’s, Edinburgh where some earlier NBR products were built, Cowlairs, Springburn, Glasgow being the actual location rather than the builder?
Posted: Apr 30, 2004 @ 13:04:17 by Euan Cameron

North British Railway 0-4-0ST No. 42 was built in 1887 at the company's Cowlairs Works, based on a Neilson & Co. design. Soon after building it was renumbered as 42B (there was already a 42A, and a new 0-4-0ST had also been built and numbered 42); this engine was renumbered 894 in 1897, 1094 in c. 1901, and became 10094 in c. 1923 under the LNER. It was numbered 8095 in the 1946 renumbering and became British Railways 68095. It was withdrawn in 1962.

The NBR saddletanks were rebuilt around 1920 with new boilers but otherwise preserving their original appearance. The full-width spectacle plates and side sheets to the cab date from the 1920s. The chimney on the preserved engine is not the original, having been taken from a North Eastern Railway locomotive.

The elaborate livery was painted on the locomotive when in the museum of Helical Springs Ltd. in Lancashire. It is not quite accurate, as the initials and coat-of-arms were not painted on saddletanks in NBR times, and the lining is too closely spaced. No NBR-style brass numberplate has yet been fitted.