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London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-0 No. 45407 (5407)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 28, 2024 @ 08:11:46
The ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 45407 “The Lancashire Fusilier”, is in Scotland over the Christmas season to work a series of steam hauled mainline Polar Express Trains around Edinburgh during December 2024.

CEGB, Goldington 0-4-0ST No. 67 'Hong Kong Flyer'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 28, 2024 @ 08:11:53
The ex CEGB, Goldington Andrew Barclay built 0-4-0ST (Works No. 2352) No. 67 "Hong Kong Flyer", was at Bryn Engineering in Bolton, Lancashire, but since 2021 it has relocated to the Caledonian Railway at Brechin in Angus, Scotland, where it is no longer under restoration as it has been reported to be being used as spares for its sister former Cupar Sugar Beet Factory, Andrew Barclay built 0-4-0ST (Works No. 1863) No. 1, there.

TCDD 2-10-2 No. 57003

Posted by: Nick on Nov 28, 2024 @ 24:11:46
This loco has been removed from this site, no longer in Balikesir. Scrapped ?

London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-0 No. 45025 (5025)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 27, 2024 @ 06:11:15
This is the history of ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 5025, which is the oldest Black Five in preservation as it was from the very first batch of Stanier designed Black Fives to be built at the Vulcan Foundry at Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire in 1934 for the London Midland & Scottish Railway. No. 5025 was based in Scotland from August 1934 until October 1935 when it moved to Liverpool Edge Hill Depot. In 1939 while hauling an express passenger train from London Euston to Stranraer (piloting a Royal Scot class 4-6-0 No. 6130) was involved in a bad accident when it was in collision with another locomotive No. 9169 an LNWR 0-8-0 class G2A, which was attaching a van to the rear of an Inverness train at Bletchley station in Buckinghamshire. Four people were killed and more than 30 were injured. Numbered as No. 45025 in British Railways days, its last shed on BR was Carnforth shed from April 1966. From February 1968, No. 45025 was regularly rostered on the last BR steam hauled named train the "Belfast Boat Express" from Manchester to Heysham. It often achieved a speed of 80mph whilst hauling this train before ceasing to do so in May 1968. No. 45025 was another end of steam survivor when it was withdrawn from service in August 1968 at the end of steam operations on BR. Its last task was to double heading with sister Black Five No. 45390 on the Carnforth- Hellifield-Lostock Hall leg of the Locomotive Club of Great Britain‘s Farewell to Steam railtour on the 4th of August 1968. No. 45025 was purchased for preservation by Scottish railway heritage pioneer, Ted Watkinson for use on the Strathspey Railway. In 1969 No. 45025 was sent to the Hunslet Engine Company in Leeds for a full overhaul and restored to its LMS livery and number No. 5025. But at the time the Strathspey Railway was not ready for heritage operations yet, so from 1969, No. 5025 was loaned to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway where it operated trains there until 1974 when it finally was able to move to its new home at the Strathspey Railway at Aviemore in Scotland. From 1975 it then went for another overhaul at Andrew Barclay’s works in Kilmarnock in May that year and enjoyed another few years operating at the Strathspey Railway as well as some mainline running from 1981 to 1983 until it was withdrawn again in 1993. After a time in storage, another overhaul began in 2012 which was to be quite a rebuild which was completed in 2021. No. 5025 has been put back to near original condition as it would have looked when it left the Vulcan Foundry works in 1934 with a slightly taller chimney now 2½ inches taller in line with the first fifty Black Fives built at Vulcan Voundry then. It also has been fitted with a domeless boiler and the step between the frame plates has been removed. There are a number of other changes which are less visible. Today No. 5025 is still a good performer at the Strathspey Railway working trains through some spectacular Scottish Highland scenary there.

Industrial 2-8-2 No. SY 1772

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 26, 2024 @ 11:11:41
Here are some technical details on the SY Class 2-8-2 locomotives like SY 1772. The SY Class 2-8-2 works at a boiler Pressure of 13.7 bar / 200 psi, Cylinders, Diameter/Stroke is at 530 mm x 710 mm, and the Driving Wheel Diameter is 1370 mm with Tractive Effort at 20,766 kg. The Overall Weight of the locomotive is 142 tons. SY in Chinese is short for Shang You (Aiming High / Reach Upward) which 1820 of them were built from 1960 to 1999 and were built at a number of locomotive works across China at Tangshan, Sifang, Tongling, Jinan and Changchun.

Industrial 2-8-2 No. SY 1770

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 26, 2024 @ 11:11:08
Here are some technical details on the SY Class 2-8-2 locomotives like SY 1770. The SY Class 2-8-2 works at a boiler Pressure of 13.7 bar / 200 psi, Cylinders, Diameter/Stroke is at 530 mm x 710 mm, and the Driving Wheel Diameter is 1370 mm with Tractive Effort at 20,766 kg. The Overall Weight of the locomotive is 142 tons. SY in Chinese is short for Shang You (Aiming High / Reach Upward) which 1820 of them were built from 1960 to 1999 and were built at a number of locomotive works across China at Tangshan, Sifang, Tongling, Jinan and Changchun.

New Haven 2-8-2 No. 3025 (1658)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 25, 2024 @ 14:11:52
Here is some technical details on the SY Class 2-8-2 locomotives like New Haven No. 3025 formerly SY 1658m. The SY Class 2-8-2 works at a boiler Pressure of 13.7 bar / 200 psi, Cylinders, Diameter/Stroke is at 530 mm x 710 mm, and the Driving Wheel Diameter is 1370 mm with Tractive Effort at 20,766 kg. The Overall Weight of the locomotive is 142 tons. SY in Chinese is short for Shang You (Aiming High / Reach Upward) which 1820 of them were built from 1960 to 1999 and were built at a number of locomotive works across China at Tangshan, Sifang, Tongling, Jinan and Changchun.

New York, Susquehana & Western 2-8-2 No. 142

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 25, 2024 @ 14:11:40
Here is some technical details on the SY Class 2-8-2 locomotives like New York, Susquehana & Western No. 142 was formerly SY 1647m. The SY Class 2-8-2 works at a boiler Pressure of 13.7 bar / 200 psi, Cylinders, Diameter/Stroke is at 530 mm x 710 mm, and the Driving Wheel Diameter is 1370 mm with Tractive Effort at 20,766 kg. The Overall Weight of the locomotive is 142 tons. SY in Chinese is short for Shang You (Aiming High / Reach Upward) which 1820 of them were built from 1960 to 1999 and were built at a number of locomotive works across China at Tangshan, Sifang, Tongling, Jinan and Changchun.

Big Bend Coal & Clay Co. 0-4-0T No. 2

Posted by: Ethan Harty on Nov 25, 2024 @ 12:11:54
Ethan Harty has purchased this engine and moved it to Harty Locomotive Works near Lougheed, Alberta where it is awaiting restoration.

Phillip Holzmann AG 0-4-0T No. None

Posted by: on Nov 25, 2024 @ 09:11:08
now at boothbay railway village in boothbay maine

Kraftwerksbau Wägital 0-4-0T No. Unknown

Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Nov 24, 2024 @ 13:11:32
Wikipedia page "Liste schmalspuriger Dampflokomotiven von Hanomag" states that the loco was built for the construction of the Schräh dam of the Wägital power plant, Switzerland

Dalat 0-8-0T No. 40-306

Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Nov 24, 2024 @ 12:11:32
On the face of it, there appears to be duplication with a loco with identical details at Dong Anh. Either the details for one of them are incorrect or there is duplication, but if so, which is the correct location?

Nacional de Mexico 0-8-0T No. 639 (402)

Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Nov 24, 2024 @ 12:11:20
The locomotive is clearly a tank loco. but also not a rack equipped loco - the only rack railway in Mexico was the 2 foot 6 inches gauge Mapimi Railroad in Durango State.

According to www.internationalsteam.co.uk, it has a long history of rebuilds. originally supplied as a 36" gauge 2-8-0, it was re-gauged to standard gauge in 1905 and re-built as an 0-8-0 tank loco and used as the works shunter (switcher) at Nonalco works, Mexico City until withdrawal in 1960.

Kiryun Coal (Taiwan) 0-6-0T No. 5

Posted by: Mark Smithers on Nov 24, 2024 @ 08:11:49
This loco is clearly British-built and long scrapped.

Sena Sugar Estates (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 9 (HF497)

Posted by: on Nov 23, 2024 @ 16:11:08
the one at Leighton buzzard is Krauss # 7455 of 1918

Sena Sugar Estates (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 9 (HF497)

Posted by: Colin Rainsbury on Nov 23, 2024 @ 12:11:43
I am not sure but is this one now at Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire

Kraftwerksbau Wägital 0-4-0T No. Unknown

Posted by: Martin Baumann on Nov 23, 2024 @ 12:11:01
Now stored in Bäch Kanton Schwyz

Ruti 0-4-0T No. 2

Posted by: Martin Baumann on Nov 23, 2024 @ 12:11:52
This locomotive was scrapped in 2012

Ostermundingen - Steinbruch - Railway 0-4-0RT No. 2 'Elfe'

Posted by: Martin Baumann on Nov 23, 2024 @ 11:11:39
This locomotive was built in AARAU not Aarhus which is in Denmark

Soc. de la Viscose Suisse 0-4-0F No. 2

Posted by: Martin Baumann on Nov 23, 2024 @ 10:11:39
Duplcate entry, same locomotive as item 29853

Herrmann & Son Thorn 0-4-0T No. Unknown

Posted by: Martin Baumann on Nov 23, 2024 @ 05:11:53
This locomotive was scrapped in 1982

British Railways 4-6-2 No. 34072 '257 Squadron'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 22, 2024 @ 12:11:47
Currently visiting on loan to the Mid Hants Railway (Watercress Line) until March 2025, the ex Southern Railway Bulleid Battle of Britain Class Light Pacific No. 34072 "257 Squadron", will not be returning to the Spa Valley Railway as instead the locomotive will be relocating back to its owners Southern Locomotives Ltd’s main base at the Swanage Railway in Dorset to be one of their main steam locomotives there while sister rebuilt Bulleid West Country Class Light Pacific No. 34028 "Eddystone", is out working on the mainline from 2025.

NCB Bold Colliery (War Department) 0-6-0ST No. 132 'Sapper'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 22, 2024 @ 12:11:54
The ex War Department Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 132 "Sapper", has since left the Kent & East Sussex Railway and has relocated to the Dean Forest Railway at Norchard in Gloucestershire, where it is currently undergoing its 10 year overhaul.

Standard Brick Co 0-4-0VG No. 'Gervase'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 22, 2024 @ 12:11:38
The ex Standard Brick Co Sentinel built 0-4-0VG Works No. 6807 "Gervase", has now left J M Steam Engineering Ltd. at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre and has relocated to its new home at the Kent & East Sussex Railway at Tenterden in Kent, for the last stages of its overhaul and will enter service in 2025. Its move to the Kent & East Sussex Railway is a homecoming as "Gervase" was the very first steam locomotives to steam and operate at the preserved line back in its early years in 1962.

Great Western Railway 4-6-0 No. 4936 'Kinlet Hall'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 22, 2024 @ 12:11:13
The ex GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 4936 "Kinlet Hall", will be leaving Tyseley Locomotive Works and returning to the West Somerset Railway at Minehead in Somerset, for its final stages of its overhaul to be completed.

British Railways 0-6-0PT No. 9466

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 22, 2024 @ 12:11:12
The ex GWR 9400 Class 0-6-0PT No. 9466, has had to be withdrawn from service early then planned for the foreseeable future, due to issues with its cylinder block. No. 9466 had been due to be withdrawn for overhaul in November 2025 and was due to appear on other preserved railways over the winter period. No. 9466 will be dismantled and repaired as needed.

Imperial Chemical Industries 0-6-0ST No. 'Isabel'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Nov 22, 2024 @ 12:11:21
The former Imperial Chemical Industries Hawthorn Leslie & Co. built 0-6-0ST Works No. 3437 "Isabel", is visiting the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre as extra motive power for the festive season to work their Santa Specials and Panto Express from the 30th of November into Christmas 2024.

RSR (RhB) 2-8-0 No. 338(122)

Posted by: Douglas Bailey on Nov 22, 2024 @ 09:11:46
We have information from August 2024 that the locomotive still exists in private hands. Can you provide a source for this information? Webmaster, www.steamlocomotive.info

Sulitjelmabanen 0-4-0T No. 1

Posted by: Kjartan Kvernsveen on Nov 22, 2024 @ 24:11:06
Status should be changed from "operational" to "display". This engine has not moved under it own power for more than five decades.

NSB 2-4-2T No. 6

Posted by: Kjartan Kvernsveen on Nov 22, 2024 @ 24:11:52
No 6 have been used in all trains at setesdalsbanen for a few years now until August/September 2024, when she was replaced by no 2. I spent close to 20 days on her footplate this summer. The boiler of no 6 is currently in Britain for a major overhaul.