Prev You are viewing Note 17113 through 17142 of 30697 Next PKP 0-8-0T No. Tkp-5485 'Slask' Posted by: Russell Newman on Jun 4, 2018 @ 06:06:41 The Polish built ex PKP 0-8-0T Tkp-5485 overhaul is progressing well and has seen a first as it has had a brand new boiler made for it. It is the first new standard gauge boiler to be built to this size in the UK for a number of years and the first to be built at the Flour Mill Works at Bream. No. 5485 is expected back at the Nene Valley Railway later this year or early 2019? CFP (Minho e Douro) 2-4-6-0T No. E-204 (454) Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Jun 4, 2018 @ 02:06:11 Sorry Phil, this locomotive is actually plinthed with a couple of vehicles outside Torredeita Station, just 1km away from 4-6-0T No. E124. Photographs to follow. Riihamen Lopen Rautatie 0-6-2T No. 3 Posted by: ILFORD on Jun 3, 2018 @ 17:06:38 Loco title is Riihamen Lopen Rautatie 3, and 600mm. Denver & Rio Grande Western RR 2-8-2 No. 493 Posted by: on Jun 2, 2018 @ 16:06:40 493 is currently being restored for use on the D&S! She is currently in a stripped down state. British Railways 4-6-0 No. 1306 'Mayflower' Posted by: Russell Newman on Jun 2, 2018 @ 09:06:41 The current location of LNER B1 4-6-0 No. 61306 "Mayflower" is West Coast Railway Company s Depot at Carnforth in Lancashire where it is still under overhaul there but is due to make a come back to the mainline later this year. London & North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 No. 60009 (4488, 9) 'Union of South Africa' Posted by: Russell Newman on Jun 2, 2018 @ 09:06:12 No. 60009 has been owned by its current owner John Cameron since it was withdrawn from service 1966. The locomotive was originally named "Osprey" and in the early 1990s the "Osprey" nameplates where carried again to avoid the controversy during the Apartheid era in South Africa at the time. The A4 spend most of its working life in Scotland and was a among the last LNER A4 Pacifics in service at the very end of mainline steam in Scotland in 1966. Since then Number 9 as she is mostly known by has travelled all around the UK mainline network mainline steam railtours since. No. 60009 will be sadly missed when she retires to be on display at John Cameron s Railway and Farming Museum at Balbuthie in Fife from 2019. Iranian State Railway 2-10-0 No. 51.03 Posted by: Chris Capewell on Jun 2, 2018 @ 08:06:49 Henschel 2454/1938 Most recent report suggests is 51.03 Iranian State Railway 2-10-2 No. 52.11 Posted by: Chris Capewell on Jun 2, 2018 @ 08:06:48 52.11 Vulcan Foundry 5972/1951 London & North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 No. 60019 (4464) 'Bittern' Posted by: Russell Newman on Jun 2, 2018 @ 08:06:18 LNER A4 Pacific No. 4464 "Bittern" has arrived at Locomotive Storage Ltd Facility next to the Hornby visitor centre at Margate in Kent. The A4 and its two tenders will be on display there for a few years till there is space a LNWR Heritage at Crewe for its next overhaul. Apache Powder 0-4-0F No. 6 Posted by: Alexander D. Mitchell IV on Jun 1, 2018 @ 12:06:39 As of mid-2018 this locomotive sits in covered, inaccessible, locked storage at a secure location in Williams pending construction of the Arizona State RR Museum. Tytherington Stone Co 0-4-0ST No. 'Daphne' Posted by: Russell Newman on Jun 1, 2018 @ 05:06:05 Former Tytherington Stone Co Peckett built 0-4-0ST "Daphne" has left the Ribble Steam Railway for a new home at North West Museum of Road Transport at St Helens in Merseyside. Where it will be on static display there in a railway section there. Great Western Railway 2-8-0 No. 2857 Posted by: Russell Newman on Jun 1, 2018 @ 05:06:02 No. 2857 is celebrating its 100th birthday this weekend at the Severn Valley Railway in style at there Goods Gala from June 2nd to 3rd 2018. The highlight of which will be 2857 working a special steam age goods train alongside a GBRf Class 66 on a special modern fright at the event. NCB 0-6-0ST No. 22 Posted by: Russell Newman on Jun 1, 2018 @ 05:06:16 Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 22 is currently in the final stages of its overhaul and is due back in steam later this year. CEGB, Nechells Power Station 0-4-0ST No. 1 Posted by: Russell Newman on Jun 1, 2018 @ 05:06:27 Former CEGB, Nechells Power Station Peckett built 0-4-0ST No. 1 has been taken out of service for its 10 year overhaul. It worked its last trains at Scunthorpe in April. Correzione del Fiume 0-4-0T No. 'Ticino' Posted by: Steve Frost on May 31, 2018 @ 16:05:38 Joachim Lutz writes that "It is the eldest preserved exemplar from the Arnold Jung factory. My picture is at Blonay (Switzerland) from 12.05.2018. It was one of the guest locomotives there". Port Talbot Railway 0-6-0ST No. 813 Posted by: Russell Newman on May 30, 2018 @ 10:05:40 Port Talbot Railway 0-6-0ST No. 813 has been added as a special second visiting locomotive to the line up at the Epping Ongar Railway for there Steam Gala from June 8th to the 10th 2018. Where it will join Churnet Valley base S160 2-8-0 No. 5197 there. Iranian State Railway 2-10-2 No. 52.11 Posted by: Chris Capewell on May 30, 2018 @ 08:05:55 This locomotive has been relocated to the new Mashhad Railway Museum. ( One of the Rey tanks is also reported to have moved to Mashhad Museum. ) Great Western Railway 0-6-0PT No. 7752 (L94) Posted by: Russell Newman on May 28, 2018 @ 12:05:04 GWR 0-6-0PT No. 7752 still in its London Transport livery as L94 is back visiting the Dartmouth Steam Railway in Devon as extra motive power for the summer season again this year. Furness Railway 0-4-0ST No. 25 Posted by: Russell Newman on May 28, 2018 @ 10:05:17 Some wonderful news has come for Furness Railway No. 25. After many years in storage at Carnforth Depot in Lancashire the locomotive has been donated to the Furness Railway Trust owners of Furness Railway No. 20. No. 25 had been owned by the late Bert Hitchen who had plans to fully restore it to working order in its industrial saddle tank form. The locomotive will be moving to the Furness Railway Trust base at the Ribble Steam Railway at Preston in Lancashire. Fairbourne Railway 2-4-2 No. 4 'Sian' Posted by: Russell Newman on May 27, 2018 @ 14:05:50 It has just been announced that former Fairbourne Railway 15inch gauge 2-4-2 No. 4 "Sian" is to be based for the foreseeable future at the Kirklees Light Railway. Having been transferred to there ownership to be part of there running fleet along with its sister "Katie" which was also a former Fairbourne Railway loco and a stable mate. Both are now sable mates again and the loco should enter traffic at its new home this summer. Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 6634 Posted by: Russell Newman on May 27, 2018 @ 13:05:27 5600 Class 0-6-2T No. 6634 is currently located at Peak Rail at Matlock in Derbyshire where it was moved last year. Its currently in storage but work of restoring it to steam again will start once work on the overhaul of GWR Prairie 2-6-2T No. 5553 is completed. NCB, Bold Colliery (War Department) 0-6-0ST No. 132 'Sapper' Posted by: Russell Newman on May 27, 2018 @ 13:05:05 Ex War Department Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 132 "Sapper" is currently located at the Avon Valley Railway at Bitton in Gloucestershire where it is on loan to them. London Transport (Great Western Railway) 0-6-0PT No. L92 (5786) Posted by: Russell Newman on May 27, 2018 @ 09:05:39 No. 5786 currently running in its London Transport livery as L92 is to visit the Bodmin & Wenford Railway for there Steam Gala and Real Ale Festival on the weekend of June 1st to the 3rd 2018. JZ (DRB) 2-10-0 No. 33-090 (52 3234) Posted by: PRAR on May 25, 2018 @ 15:05:55 This loco was at Prilep back on 27/4/2014. I was unable to identify it. Central Electricity Generating Board 0-4-0ST No. 15 'Eustace Forth' Posted by: Russell Newman on May 25, 2018 @ 05:05:12 No. 15 "Eustace Forth" has added as the second visiting locomotive at the Tanfield Railway to be part of the line up of locos for there Legends of Industry Steam Gala on the weekend of June 16th and 17th 2018. West Virginia Northern RR 2-8-0 No. 8 Posted by: on May 25, 2018 @ 05:05:08 Both number 9 and number 8 will be transported to cass for rebuilds/restoration, both are now owned by the state of West Virginia and have been since 2016. Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T No. 426 (85) Posted by: Russell Newman on May 25, 2018 @ 05:05:00 Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T No. 85 is returning to the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway again to be extra motive power there over the summer season. Western & Atlantic RR 4-4-0 No. 3 Posted by: Alan Walker on May 23, 2018 @ 16:05:30 The locomotive General is somewhat unique in that it was one of the few locomotives to burn each of the major fuel types used by steam locomotives (wood, coal and oil). It was initially built as a wood burner and converted to coal in the 1870s. In 1892, it was rebuilt as a wood burner but shortly thereafter, rebuilt again as a coal burner but maintained the cosmetic appearance of a wood burner. The coal was concealed beneath a false deck on the tender. The locomotive operated sporadically from the 1890s to the 1920s for PR purposes and was converted to oil in 1961. Western & Atlantic Railroad 4-4-0 No. 49 'Texas' Posted by: Alan Walker on May 23, 2018 @ 15:05:11 The locomotive Texas was originally Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia No. 49. General was No. 39. The current number was assigned by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway. Locomotive No. 12 was renamed Cincinatti. The fact that EITHER locomotive survives is rather fortunate. General was condemned by the NC and parked in the scrap line at Vinings, Georgia when a photographer who recognized her historical significance noticed her and suggested to the NC that the locomotive could be a valuable PR asset. London & North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 No. 60019 (4464) 'Bittern' Posted by: Russell Newman on May 23, 2018 @ 13:05:45 It has been announced that LNER A4 Pacific No. 4464 "Bittern" is to leave LNWR Heritage at Crewe and is to be moved to Locomotive Storage Limited new site at Westwood in Margate which was the former Hornby Model Railway factory warehouse. The locomotive is to move to the site at Thanet on 2nd June 2018 for storage and eventual public display next to the Hornby Visitor Centre that continues to occupy part of the Margate site. Whilst it awaits its turn in the overhaul queue at Crewe Depot where it will be joined by other locomotives and rolling stock there soon.

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