NCB, Woolley Colliery 0-6-0ST No. 'Newstead'
Sheringham, Norfolk, UK 		Location: North Norfolk Railway
Status: Operational
Posted: Mar 5, 2025 @ 11:03:28 by Russell Newman
With its restoration now completed, the ex NCB, Woolley Colliery Hunslet built 0-6-0ST Works No. 1589 "Newstead", has now left the Spa Valley Railway and has relocated to its new home at the North Norfolk Railway at Sheringham in Norfolk, East Anglia, where it will start undergoing steam testing and running trials before entering service over the Easter Weekend.
Posted: Feb 26, 2025 @ 05:02:43 by Russell Newman
With ex NCB, Woolley Colliery Hunslet built 0-6-0ST Works No. 1589 "Newstead", now in the final stages of restoration, its been announced that the locomotive will be leaving the Spa Valley Railway due to their current needs and with other locomotives on short, medium and long-term hires to them along with the return of ex LMS Jinty 0-6-0T No. 47493, nearing completion of its overhaul there. "Newstead" will be relocating to the North Norfolk Railway at Sheringham in Norfolk, East Anglia, which will be its new home and the locomotive is expected to make its debut in service there during their four day Easter Bank Holiday weekend.
Posted: Feb 1, 2025 @ 09:02:42 by Russell Newman
A milestone was reached in the restoration of ex NCB, Woolley Colliery Hunslet built 0-6-0ST Works No. 1589 "Newstead", as the boiler was returned to the chassis of the locomotive following completion of work on it and is now ready for steam testing. Hopefully "Newstead" will enter service at the Spa Valley Railway very soon.
Posted: Oct 28, 2018 @ 10:10:57 by Russell Newman
The former NCB, Woolley Colliery Hunslet built 0-6-0ST "Newstead" has left the Nene Valley Railway as it has been sold to the Spa Valley Railway at Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and has relocated there. The locomotive is to be restored to running order by a team currently working on Andrew Barclay built 0-4-0ST "Lady Ingrid" there. When that job is done work will start on "Newstead" as the locomotive is in good condition and it is hoped it can be returned to traffic in a short space of time. "Newstead" will make its first public appearance at its new home during the Winter Steam Up over the weekend of the 29th and 30th of December 2018.
Posted: Aug 30, 2017 @ 18:08:50 by Russell Newman
This loco has quit a tale to tell. Built in 1924 by the Hunslet Engine company in Leeds "Newstead" in one of there 16inch cylindered saddle tanks. It worked at Woolley Colliery in Darton Yorkshire for most of its working life till 1970 when it was withdrawn from service. It was sold to the Steam Traction Society in Suffolk where it was with them till the 1990s when it vanished out of site for years which everyone thought it went for scrap. It was in fact hidden at a privet owners home for many years but in 2015 following the death of the former owner the locomotive was donated by the former owners widow to the Small Loco Group for a new least of life.
Posted: Aug 8, 2016 @ 14:08:34 by Russell Newman
Newstead is now undergoing restoration to full working order at the workshops at Wansford.