Stewarts & Lloyds 0-6-0ST No. 'Juno'
Shildon, Durham, UK
Location: Locomotion Museum
Status: Display
Posted: Jul 29, 2019 @ 13:07:11 by Phil Horton
In addition to those built for the NCB, during the 1950s and early 1960s, Hunslet also built a number of ‘Austerity’ saddle tanks for other industries. Just one of these, (Hunslet No. 3850, 1958) was built new for Stewart & Lloyds Minerals (later British Steel) for work on their ironstone railways around Corby in Northants.

Here, named 'Juno', it worked at their Buckminster Quarries on the South Lincolnshire/Leicestershire border. The output from the quarries was taken by BR along the High Dyke branch to the East Coast Mainline. In 1967 these quarries were linked to the Market Overton system in Rutland to the south. The engine last worked in August 1968 and, despite attempts to make Market Overton shed a steam preservation centre (Flying Scotsman and other main line engines were based there for a time), the whole setup closed during the mid 1970s. By this time Juno was already preserved and was working at Quainton Road, Buckinghamshire. It later went to the Isle of Wight Railway Steam Railway but is now at the NRM's site at Shildon in County Durham.