NCB1 Cadeby Main Colliery 0-6-0ST No. 66
Quainton Road, Buckinghamshire, UK 		Location: Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
Status: Awaiting Overhaul
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Posted: Apr 22, 2025 @ 06:04:55 by Russell Newman
Having hauled its last trains at the Epping Ongar Railway during the Easter Weekend, the ex NCB Cadeby Main Colliery Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST (Works No. 3890) No. 66, which was the very last commercially built standard gauge steam locomotive in the UK for industrial work has now been withdrawn from service having come to the end of its boiler ticket and the locomotive will be returned home to the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre to await its next overhaul.
Posted: Mar 18, 2025 @ 15:03:07 by Russell Newman
The ex NCB Cadeby Main Colliery Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST (Works No. 3890) No. 66, which was the very last commercially produced standard gauge steam locomotive in the UK for industrial work is visiting the Epping Ongar Railway as extra motive power for the first half of the 2025 running season there.
Posted: Aug 22, 2019 @ 10:08:49 by Russell Newman
Due to LMS Jinty No. 47406 being unavailable the NCB Cadeby Main Colliery Hunslet built Austerity 0-6-0ST No. 66 the very last commercially produced standard gauge steam locomotive in the UK has been hired in to visit the Epping Ongar Railway in Essex for the August Bank Holiday weekend.
Posted: Jun 24, 2008 @ 02:06:40 by Steve Frost
On paper this looks like 'Just another Hunslet 'Austerity' 0-6-0ST'. And so it would be, just looking at the engine. However, it has the distinction of being the very last commercially produced standard gauge steam loco for the British home market. This was some 4 years after the last loco built for the main line (No 92220 'Evening Star' in the National Collection)and 7 years before the final loco was produced for export('Trangkil No4' at the Statfold Barn Railway near Tamworth).

In its working life it was just another colliery shunter and was originally fitted with Hunslet's underfed stoker and gas producer system to reduce pollution. That was later removed and hand firing used up to withdrawal in 1970. Yet another late production loco with a cruelly short working life.