NCB1 0-6-0ST No. 22
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, UK 		Location: Appleby - Frodingham RPS
Status: Operational
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1 NCB National Coal Board National Coal Board
Posted: Mar 31, 2025 @ 12:03:14 by Russell Newman
The ex NCB Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST (Works No. 3846) No. 22, will be staying on loan to the North Norfolk Railway for the 2025 running season.
Posted: Mar 12, 2024 @ 15:03:27 by Russell Newman
The ex NCB Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST (Works No. 3846) No. 22, is going on loan to the North Norfolk Railway for the 2024 season to help cover a locomotive shortage there.
Posted: Sep 27, 2022 @ 13:09:51 by Russell Newman
The ex NCB Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 22 has now left the Mid Norfolk Railway and has gone on loan to the Midland Railway - Butterley for the remainder of the 2022 season and will enter service there on their Fireworks Trains on the 5th of November 2022 and will be operating their Santa Specials over the Christmas season in December.
Posted: Apr 6, 2022 @ 06:04:27 by Russell Newman
No. 22 was one of the later built Austerity 0-6-0ST locomotives that were built for industrial use after the second world war. She was built at the Hunslet Engine Company works in Leeds in 1956 as Works No. 3846 for the National Coal Board for use at Graig Merthyr Colliery in South Wales. Where the locomotive spent all of its working life there until June 1978 when the colliery closed, but during its time there it worked between the Graig Merthyr Colliery and the exchange sidings on the the Swansea District line at Graig Merthyr Colliery Sidings. No. 22 remained at Graig Merthyr being stored in the locomotive shed until 1986 when was then moved to the Cefn Coed Colliery Museum at Crynant near Neath to be on static display outside their main gate there. In 1997 the locomotive was bought by Chris Theaker to become part of the locomotive fleet based at Appleby-Frodingham Railway Preservation Society at the former British Steel site at Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire. There it underwent restoration to return to steam which was completed in 2010. The locomotive is turned out in the identity as United Steel Company Limited No.22 and a crimson livery. The orginal No. 22 worked at Cottesmore Iron Ore in Rutland which part of the railway system is today the Rocks By Rail: The Living Ironstone Museum which No. 22 has visited. Since its return to steam No. 22 has visited the the Nene Valley Railway, the Embasy & Bolton Abbey Railway and the Great Central Railway. Its currently on hire to the Mid Norfolk Railway at in Dereham in Norfolk for the 2022 running season there.
Posted: Apr 1, 2022 @ 10:04:57 by Russell Newman
The ex NCB Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 22 is going on loan to the Mid Norfolk Railway at Dereham in Norfolk as extra steam motive power for the 2022 season.
Posted: Jul 3, 2021 @ 09:07:07 by Russell Newman
The ex NCB Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 22 has gone on loan to the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway as extra motive power over the 2021 summer season.
Posted: Jan 23, 2021 @ 09:01:46 by Russell Newman
The overhaul and rebuild on ex NCB Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 22 has now been completed as the locomotive was steamed and moved for the first time today. No. 22 will undergo testing before entering service in the early part of 2021.
Posted: Apr 26, 2019 @ 13:04:18 by Russell Newman
Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 22 is to enter service this year as its overhaul is in its final stages and will be one of two steam locomotives used on the Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society railtours around Scunthorpe Steel works railway system this season.
Posted: Jun 1, 2018 @ 05:06:16 by Russell Newman
Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 22 is currently in the final stages of its overhaul and is due back in steam later this year.
Posted: Jul 5, 2016 @ 12:07:30 by Russell Newman
22 has now left the Nene Valley and has gone back home to the Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society at Scunthorpe.
Posted: Aug 23, 2010 @ 16:08:40 by Steve Frost
Currently at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and painted in United Steel Co ore mining section maroon as their No 22.

Another of the ubiquitous Hunslet 18inch cylinder saddle tanks this one has done the rounds, being ex War Department then moving to work for the National Coal Board in South Wales and then Cefn Coed Mining Museum as in the album photo. Later it was restored to working order and was at Appleby Frodingham, Scunthorpe and then the Nene Valley Railway before its present stint at Embsay.

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