Steam Locomotive Information

Here is the photo album for NCB Maesteg (War Department) No. 2890 (75041) 'Douglas', a 0-6-0 located in Bury, Lancashire. If you would like to suggest additional photos for this album, please click here.

Ah, the pleasures of railway photography, and the way the weather always saves it's best for steam railway events! Snow at the East Lancashire Railway.

Between the frames are the valve spindles (centre) and the slide bars and crossheads.

Inside the cab. Right hand drive, lever reverser and injectors on the boiler backhead.

Running under a non authentic British Railways number the former War Department saddle tank loco now rebuilt as a rather unlikely looking tender engine stands on the east Lancashire railway on Sunday 8th March 2020

Between the frames is the crank axle and eccentrics for the Stephenson Link valve gear.

In the shed at the Spa Valley Railway in the summer of 2022.

In the shed at the Spa Valley Railway in the summer of 2022. The number on the tender is the loco's works number: Hunslet Engine Company 2890 of 1943.


NCB Maesteg (War Department) 0-6-0 No. 2890 (75041) 'Douglas' Bury, Lancashire, UK	Location: East Lancashire Railway Status: Operational