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Victorian Railways 4-6-0 No. A 996Posted by: on Jan 11, 2021 @ 03:01:10
A2 996 was planned for restoration by "West Coast Railways" who went bankrupt in early 2004. 996 was moved out of echuca roughly the same time that WCR went bankrupt and thus the restoration never started(apart from making legal to be moved at low speed along the mainline)

KWK Kazimierx Juliusz 0-6-0T No. TKh-3145Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:55
Delivered to KWK Kazimierz Juliusz a year after being built, it was later moved to Fabryka Swiec, Szprotawa in 1978. During 1991 it had a stay in Wolsztyn, followed by the Koslom Co. in Wrzesnia. In 2012 it was moved, and where it now resides in the CTL depot, Maczki Bór, Dluga 90, 41-208 Sosnowiec, Silesia

KWK Victoria, Walbrzych 0-6-0T No. TKh-2873Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:52
This locomotive was delivered to coal mine Victoria, outside Walbrzych, where it worked until at least 1976. In 2006 it was taken to Pyskowice and went to a private company nearby in 2007. However, in 2012, it was returned in pieces and is now regarded as a wreck at Skansen TOZK, Piaskowa 1, 44-120 Pyskowice, Silesia

PKP 2-10-0 No. Ty45-6Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:57
This locomotive was delivered direct to PKP in Tarnowskie Góry and spent many years working from Kluczbork from late 1947 until going to Gliwice in April 1973. It was at nearby Kedzierzyn Kozle from 1977, with a ten month break at Pyskowice in 1985, until late 1990 when it was officially withdrawn from service. During 2015 it moved to the Museum of Industry and Railways in Silesia, ul. Sienkiewicza 19, 58-200 Dzierzoniów, Lower Silesia

PKP (DRB, CFR & MPS) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-1226 (52 6083 & TE 6083)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:10
This locomotive had a very short time with the DRB as No. 52 6083 before joining the CFR in Romania with the same identity for a year whence it went to Soviet Railways as No. TE-6083 until joining the PKP near the end of 1962 at Siedlce. From here it went to Warszawa Praga until 1982 and was at Elk in 1991 when officially withdrawn. Not until 2014 was renovated and plinthed outside Queen Jadwiga Junior High School, ul. Radzyminska 2, 05-240 Tluszcz, Masovia

PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-1176 (52 4541)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:15
This locomotive had a short life with the DRB as No. DRB: 52 4541 in both Dresden and Zittau before joining the PKP at nearby Wroclaw Brochów in 1945. Since then it has worked from both Nysa and Opole but was withdrawn, in 1991 at the former location where it stayed for several years. In 2014 it was partially cut by a scrap metal worker. However, the cut was stopped by the Conservation Office, which ordered the owner to restore the locomotive to the state it was before cutting. It is now on private property in the village of 62-200 Pyszczyn, Greater Poland

PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-1140 (52 7508)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:21
This locomotive, as No. 52 7508, spent a short time with the DRB before joining the PKP and was recorded as being at the northern outpost of Korsze in 1966. It was at Tczew in 1978 and was withdrawn from here in at the end of 1993. It is still domiciled here as a wreck in the grounds of PKP Cargo, Aleja Solidarnosci 16, 83-110 Tczew, Pomorania

PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-446 (52 5134)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:19
This is another locomotive that was delivered to the DRB as No. 52 5134 for a couple of years before being included in the PKP inventory at Olsztyn for five years, then moving to the far north at Korsze in 1950. It was back briefly at Olsztyn in 1954 before returning to Korsze and, in 1967, went to Chojnice and was finally withdrawn from here in 1993. In August 2004 it went from Chojnice to Gdynia Grabówek depot via Leba and Lebork and, just a month later from here for display at Skansen Parowozownia, Towarowa 7, 83-400 Koscierzyna, Pomerania

PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-140 (52 461)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:09
This locomotive entered service for a couple of years with the DRB as No. 52 461 before being absorbed into the PKP at Oswiecim (more commonly known in German translation as Auschwitz). Five years later it was at Kedzierzyn-Konzle, where it spent over a decade before moving to nearby Opole in 1963, then Jaworzyna Slaska in 1971. It was formally withdrawn from the Wroclaw Division in 1991, after being present at Nysa since 1976, and is now regarded as a wreck on the former premises of PKP Cargo, Boleslawa Smialego,48-300 Nysa, Opole

PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-220 (52 1608)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:46
his locomotive spent a couple of years with the DRB as No. 52 1608 before joning the PKP and, in 1970 was at Ilowo followed, in early 1973 by Skierniewice within the Warsaw East Division. It was withdrawn towards the end of 1989 and is now regarded as a wreck in the grounds of the PKP Reginal Depot, Przemyslowa 43, 05-240 Tluszcz, Masovia

PKP (DRB) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-7 (52 1956)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 10, 2021 @ 13:01:03
This locomotive entered service with the DRB as No. 52 1956 but within a year it had been absorbed into the PKP at Poznan Franowo. Within a year it was rebuilt in the local workshops before moving on to Zbaszynek and Tarnowskie Góry. From 1964 it spent two decades at Torun Glówny before moving to Lazy, from where it was withdrawn in 1991. It spent some time at Chabówka from 2010 after a long period at Kraków Plaszów depot. Since the start of 2019 it has been under renovation at Prokocim depot, 30-827 Kraków, Lesser Poland.

Tarmac Roadstone 0-4-0ST No. 'Wellington'Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 8, 2021 @ 13:01:04
The ex Tarmac Roadstone 1873 Black Hawthorn built 0-4-0ST No. 266 "Wellington" has been brought back to the Tanfield Railway having been in storage at the Wensleydale Railway.

British Railways 2-10-0 No. 92219Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:59
BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 No. 92219 has now left the Wensleydale Railway and has relocated to a private site at Tebay in Cumbria for its restoration which will get underway there.

Huta Zygmunt 0-4-0T No. TKb-10Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:18
This locomotive was ordered and delivered to Huta Zygmunt w Bytomiu as their No. 10 and was emplyed here all its working life until being preserved and moved to Skansenu Taboru Kolejowego Karsznice, Kolejowa 6, 98-220 Zdunska Wola, Lódz

PKP 2-8-2T No. Tkt48-177Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:16
his locomotive joined the PKP fleet towards the end of the year at Bielsko Biala and, by 1964 had moved to Czechowice Dziedzice. Two years later it had moved to the large depot of Skarzysko Kamienna and, by 1969 it was engaged at Nowy Sacz where it was finally withdrawn in 1987 and placed outside the station in Towarowa, 33-300 Nowy Sacz, Lesser Poland

Great Western Railway 4-6-0 No. 4920 'Hogwarts Castle' ('Dumbleton Hall')Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:09
Its been unveiled that GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 4920 "Dumbleton Hall" has been sold to the head of West Coast Railway Company and could see a future on the mainline? No. 4920 will be moving North to its new home to West Coast Railway Company’s depot at the former Steamtown Centre at Carnforth in Lancashire in the early part of 2021. There it will join sister GWR Hall Class the famous No. 5972 "Olton Hall" there.

PKP (DR) 2-10-0 No. Ty2-1184(52.2733)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:04
This locomotive first joined the DRB and, in 1945 the PKP. In 1948 it was at Bialogard and, a couple of years later, it was at Szczecin Port Centralny. It spent five years at Sucha Beskidzka from 1992 and then went to Chabówka in 1997 from where it was withdrawn in 2000 and is now at Skansen Taboru Kolejowego w Chabówce, 34-720 Chabówka, Lesser Poland

PMPPW Szczakowa 2-10-0 No. Ty51-138Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:09
his is one of the last steam locomotives built in, and for Poland being delivered direct to PMPPW Szczakowa, then Kotlarnia. It sill resides in front of the Sand Mine, ul. Debowa 3, 47-246 Kotlarnia, Opole

Power Plant Drzymala, Bytom 0-4-0F No. TKB/B 14813Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:57
This small fireless locomotive only known by its origoinal boiler number was originally delivered to Elektrownia Drzymaly, Bytom. In 1973 it moved to the Power Plant in Laziska Górne, then the Tarnogaj Gas Plant, Wroclaw. It ceased working in 2000 and lay in the scrap yard at the Gasworks until 2013 when it was taken to the Muzeum Przemyslu i Kolejnictwa na Slasku, ul. Towarowa 4, 58-140 Jaworzyna Slaska, Lower Silesia

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-93Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:04
This locomotive was delivered to Klodzko and alternated depots between here and Legnica for its first decade before moving to Zbaszynek in 1973, and to Krzyz in 1982. It moved further north to in 1991 before being withdrawn in 1996. However it was only in 2005 that it was moved to the Muzeum Przemyslu i Kolejnictwa na Slasku, ul. Towarowa 4, 58-140 Jaworzyna Slaska, Lower Silesia

London & South Western Railway 0-4-4T No. 24 'Calbourne'Posted by: Russell Newman on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:23
The ex London & South Western Railway 02 Class 0-4-4T No. W24 "Calbourne" was steam tested before Christmas 2020 and is now ready for test runs before entering service at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway for the 2021 season. The locomotive has been painted in Southern Malachite Green livery.

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-80Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:43
This locomotive was delivered at the very end of the production year to the far-east depot of Deblin and where it spent over a decade before moving north to Kielce. It continued north to Bialystok, Elk and eventually Suwalki by 1973 before returning to Elk in 1986, only to be withdrawn there in 2000 where it still remains as a wreck around the grounds of the former PKP Cargo depot, Sportowa, 19-300 Elk, Warmia-Masuria

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-102Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:21
This locomotive was delivered to Szczecin Glówny and moved on to Kutno a couple of years later before going on to Lódz Kaliska and, after over a decade later to Elk, where it was withdrawn in 2000. It was not until 2016 that it was moved to the Museum of Industry and Railways in Silesia, ul. Sienkiewicza 19, 58-200 Dzierzoniów, Lower Silesia

PKP 2-6-2 No. Ol49-61Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 12:01:01
The locomotive was delivered to Warszawa Zachodnia and the following year moved to Odolany. It spent five years at Lódz Kaliska from 1958 and was at Elk a decade later and from where it was withdrawn in 1993. In 2015 it was not moved to the Museum of Industry and Railways in Silesia, ul. Sienkiewicza 19, 58-200 Dzierzoniów, Lower Silesia

KWK (Coal Mine) Stalin 0-8-0T No. TKp-2241Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 07:01:13
TKp-2241 worked throughout its life at the KWK Stalin mine in Silesia and is now in pieces as a wreck in the premises of Trans-Mot, ul. Olowiana 18, 85-461 Bydgoszcz, Kuravia-Pomerania

Masurian Roszarnicze Plant, Szczytno 0-4-0F No. 53KF-5 (TKbb)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:54
This loco was delivered via a Raw Materials intermediary to the Masurian Roszarnicze Plant, Szczytno in north-eastern Poland. It bears the markings 53KF-5 though apparently these are not recorded in its written identity. No details of the locomotive are recorded before it was moved, in 2014, from Szczynto to Warsaw and, in 2014, went from there for display outside the Eastern Station, 05-530 Czachówek, Masovia

Huta Labedy 0-8-0T No. TKp-12800Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:21
Possibly, as a result, this locomotive which, apparently has no markings, is known now by its boiler number rather than its build number. The locomotive has spent all its working life at Huta Labedy (Steelworks), where it is still domiciled with sister TKp-3409 in their grounds at Anny Jagiellonki 45, 44-109 Gliwice, Silesia

PKP (KPEV, DRB) 2-8-2T No. TKt1-63 (8589, 93.108)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:03
This locomotive was delivered to KPEV as Berlin No. 8589 but became DRB No. 92 108 in 1925. It joined the PKP in 1945 at Lódz. It had a long stay at Gliwice when withdrawn in 1972 as well as being moved to Sucha Beskidzka in 1993 and Chabówka the following year.

PKP (DRB) 2-6-2T No. OKl27-41 (75.1278)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:47
This locomotive was fist delivered to PKP as No. OKl27-91 but, from 1941, became DRB Ostbahn No. 75 1278. It was mainly around Warsaw during WWII and, from January 1945 re-joined the PKP at Kepno, and later in Poznan presumeably in its current identity. It frequently moved around Silesia and even, the far-east in 1960 to Czeremcha. By 1967 it was at Malaszewicze from where it was withdrawn in 1974 and transferred to ZNTK Lapy but, it was not until 1993 that it reached Chabówka

PKP 2-10-0 No. Ty43-9Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jan 8, 2021 @ 05:01:03
Little or nothing is known of this locomotive after it entered service but, in 1958, it was at Sedziszów and from 1963 at Tomaszów Mazowiecki. It was back at Sedziszów, from where it was withdrawn in 1990 and moved to Chabówka in 1993.
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