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Cliffe Hill Quarry Co. 0-4-0ST No. 'Peter'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jul 26, 2024 @ 06:07:17
The ex Cliffe Hill Quarry Co. Bagnall built 0-4-0ST Works No. 2067 "Peter", is visiting Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum for their Annual Steam Gala from over the weekend of July 27th and 28th 2024.

Caledonian Railway 0-4-4T No. 419 (15189, 55189)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jul 26, 2024 @ 05:07:11
During her visit down the south of the UK, the sole surviving ex Caledonian Railway 439 Class 0-4-4T No. 55189 (419), will visit the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway for the first time as their third visiting locomotive for their first ever Steam Gala Weekend from the 13th to 15th of September 2024.

Austin Motor Co. Ltd 0-6-0ST No. 'Austin No 1'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jul 25, 2024 @ 09:07:44
The ex Austin Motor Co. Ltd Kitson & Co built 0-6-0ST Works No. 5459 "Austin No. 1", has gone on hire to the Cambrian Heritage Railway at Oswestry in Shropshire to be their main steam locomotive for the remainder of the 2024 running season.

Detroit & Mackinac RR 0-6-0 No. 8

Posted by: Dogemasterios on Jul 25, 2024 @ 06:07:09
Please change the status to awaiting restoration.

Rumoi Railway.(Kiu-shiu CF) 0-4-0T No. 17

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 24, 2024 @ 23:07:11
Location, Nakagawa Seiryu Tetsudo Hozonkai, Nasu-Karasuyama, Tochigi, Japan. Status, Display.

JGSDF 101st Railway Construction Unit 0-4-0T No. None

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 24, 2024 @ 23:07:45
Status should be "Display". Location is Nakagawa Seiryu Tetsudo Hozonkai (Nakagawa River Railroad Preservation Society), Nasu-Karasuyama, Tochigi, Japan. The locomotive is not actually numbered. 101 is the number of the SDF unit it served under, JGSDF 101st Railway Construction Unit (active 1960-1966). After disbanding of the 101st, the locomotive was displayed at JGSDF Camp Asaka from 1966 to 1993, when it was sold to a scrapper in Ibaraki and sat in the yard until 2010, when it was brought to the current location and cosmetically restored. The new owners painted it to resemble a brass model locomotive. Apart from a brief stint displayed at a local supermarket parking lot, the locomotive has remained under cover at Nakagawa since it was rescued in 2010.

Rumoi Railway.(Kiu-shiu CF) 0-4-0T No. 15

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 24, 2024 @ 22:07:55
Location should be Numata, Hokkaido.

Toyo Rayon (Nagato Railway) 0-6-0T No. 103 (101)

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 24, 2024 @ 21:07:48
Location should be Roadside Station Hotarukaido-Nishinoichi, Toyota, Yamaguchi, Japan. Ownership history, Nagato Railway No.101 from 1916 to 1947, Toyo Rayon from 1947 to 1964 (renumbered 103 in 1956), displayed at Takarazuka Family Land from 1965 to 2003, Kaya SL Plaza 2003 to 2021, arrived current location September 2021.

Kubiki Railway 0-6-0T No. 2

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 24, 2024 @ 21:07:12
Status should be "Display". Kubiki 2 has not been operational since 1976. Initially retired from service at the Kubiki Railway in 1966, the locomotive sat on display from 1967 to 1971, and was leased and overhauled for use at the Seibu Yamaguchi line (a 2.8km amusement park railway, but legally a full-fledged rail line that lasted from 1971 to 1984). Seibu purchased its own locomotives from Taiwan and restored it over the winter of 1976, replacing the leased Kubiki 2 and returning it, cold, to its owners. It has led a comfortable retirement in the Kubikino Rail Park building ever since, being pushed out into the sun when the weather permits during open house events.

Knott's Berry Farm 4-4-0 No. 83

Posted by: Mark on Jul 24, 2024 @ 18:07:26
Locomotive replaced with an electric locomotive as of June 2024. It was sold to a theme park attraction manufacturer. It is operable but kept static for now

Detroit & Mackinac RR 0-6-0 No. 8

Posted by: Dogemasterios on Jul 24, 2024 @ 06:07:54
The boiler is operational but the frame is cracked.

Norfolk & Western Railway 2-8-0 No. 917

Posted by: Joel J on Jul 24, 2024 @ 24:07:16
N&W 917 and the Buckeye Express Diner are now for sale by "Dream Huge Reality"

JNR 2-8-0 No. 29622 (Displayed as 59609)

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 23, 2024 @ 22:07:13
59609 in Mikasa and 29622 in Niigata are believed to have had their identities mixed up when sitting together in the bone yard at Otaru Chikkou Depot awaiting disposal in 1975-76. Both locomotives were retired from Iwamizawa Daiichi depot in 1975, and presumably dragged to Otaru with their plates removed, hence the mix-up. Photographs exist of the two locomotives sitting coupled together with the wrong numbers for each locomotive painted on their smokebox fronts. The locomotive preserved in Mikasa wearing 59609 is actually 29622, and the locomotive in Niigata is believed to be 59609.

JNR 2-8-2 No. D52-235 (Possibly D52-138 displayed as D52-235)

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 23, 2024 @ 22:07:33
Yet another JNR numbers mix-up, D52-235 is believed to be D52-138. The preserved locomotive does not have the all-weather cab that D52-235 was retrofitted with in 1961, and multiple parts have been found with their stamped numbers for D52-138 stamped over with D52-235.

JNR 4-6-2 No. C55-46 (Displayed as C55-53)

Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Jul 23, 2024 @ 16:07:17
Thanks for the information, Yuki. I have changed our page for the loco to reflect your note.

JNR 2-6-2T No. C12-38

Posted by: on Jul 23, 2024 @ 15:07:23
Thanks for the correction Yuki, it seems that it has been parked face to face with C11 217’s boiler outside

Homestake Mine 0-4-4 No. 22

Posted by: Kevin Sweat on Jul 23, 2024 @ 06:07:43
A conversation (in person) with the museum in Anacortes indicates that this engine was sold to a party in California and is no longer in Anacortes.

London Midland & Scottish Railway 4-6-0 No. 45163 (5163)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jul 23, 2024 @ 06:07:14
The ex LMS Black Five 4-6-0 No. 45163, (known as the "Highland Hiker" is to return to the mainline following a deal with a partership with its owners the 45163 Ltd and Riley & Son Engineering Ltd. owners of ex LMS Black Five’s No. 45407 “The Lancashire Fusilier” and 44871 along with No. 45212 on loan to them from the the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. The partnership will see No. 45163 leave the Colne Valley Railway and be relocated to Riley & Son Engineering Ltd. at Heywood in Lancashire, where its restoration from Barry Scrapyard condition will be completed to mainline standards which will see the fitment of air-braking and main line electronic equipment – in return for the long-term loan of the locomotive to Riley & Son Engineering Ltd. The hire agreement will run for 25 years, and will then end with the return of the locomotive to the 45163 Ltd in working order. Provision has also been made for it to visit other preserved railways around the UK, including the Colne Valley Railway and the West Somerset Railway. It is hope the work will be completed by 2027 which will see No. 45163 working on Network Rail metals on railtours and could even see it working the Jacobite Trains on the West Highland Line in Scotland.

JNR 4-6-2 No. C55-50

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 22, 2024 @ 19:07:50
C55-50 is another case of Class C55 numbers getting mixed up, though the mistake has since been reversed. When originally displayed at Otaru, the locomotive wore the plate for C55-30. This is significant because C55-30 belongs to the second batch of C55 which was originally streamlined, and differed somewhat in detail from the preserved C55-50 which belongs to the third and final batch of C55.

JNR 4-6-2 No. C55-46 (Displayed as C55-53)

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 22, 2024 @ 19:07:53
This locomotive is believed to be C55-46 wearing the number plate of C55-53. For whatever reason, JNR class C55 and their Taiwanese brothers have had a history of getting their numbers mixed up in preservation.

CEGB Earley 0-4-0ST No. 'Olwen'

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jul 22, 2024 @ 14:07:42
The ex CEGB Earley, Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns built 0-4-0ST Works No. 7058 "Olwen", is now located at the at its new home at the Midland Railway - Butterley in Derbyshire, where it is now under overhaul there.

Ruwenhorst & Humbert (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 31 (HF 968)

Posted by: Russell Newman on Jul 22, 2024 @ 14:07:35
The former Ruwenhorst & Humbert (Heeresfeldbahn) 1917 Maffei built 0-8-0T+T No. DFB 968, (known as ‘The Brigadelok’) has now been put on public display in the Vale of Rheidol Railway’s new museum in the former Great Western Railway locomotive shed at Aberystwyth.

Nepal Government Railway 0-6-2T No. 3 'Gorakhnath'

Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Jul 22, 2024 @ 13:07:10
I recently viewed a YouTube video showing the locos with commentary in a language I couldn't understand, but this recent video showed them as derelict. The man who made the video was obviously interested in them, focussing on works plates where they were present and name plates. Maybe there is enough interest in South Asia to prompt preservation, who knows?

TRA (Tokyo-Yokohama Railway) 2-4-0T No. 9

Posted by: Mark Smithers on Jul 22, 2024 @ 13:07:50
Should be 2-4-0T.

Nepal Government Railway 0-6-2T No. 3 'Gorakhnath'

Posted by: Mark Smithers on Jul 22, 2024 @ 13:07:11
What is the current status of these Nepal locos. Any preservation attempts?

DRLR 0-6-4T No. 6

Posted by: Mark Smithers on Jul 22, 2024 @ 13:07:43
What is the current status of the DRLR locomotives? do they still exist?

Bar-Virpazar 2-4-4-0T No. 'Sutorman'

Posted by: Marco van Uden on Jul 22, 2024 @ 09:07:19
The gauge is probably 760mm (Bosnian narrow gauge) and not 750mm as shown in the details.

JNR 2-6-2T No. C12-38

Posted by: Yuki Taki on Jul 22, 2024 @ 02:07:34
Small correction. The location is Tokai Kikan rather than Oigawa Railway. Status should be stored, as the locomotive is no longer publicly accessible. According to local sources, the locomotive will NOT be restored to operation nor be parted out for Oigawa Railway operations.

Cronton Colliery 0-6-0ST No. None

Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Jul 21, 2024 @ 13:07:29
The previous note prompted me to investigate. I found that the details we had about location of the loco were well out of date. Research suggests the current location that we now show. The status is unchanged, although the loco appears to be dismantled.

JNR 2-6-2T No. C12-38

Posted by: on Jul 21, 2024 @ 07:07:46
Moved to the Oigawa Railway’s facilities near Shimada (Shizuoka)