Dinorwic Slate Mines 0-4-0WT No. 70 'Caledonia'
Liphook, Hampshire, UK
Location: Hollycombe Steam Collection
Status: Overhaul
Posted: Sep 1, 2018 @ 16:09:00 by Robin R Beck
Originally operated at Burnhope Reservoir railway, a railway used in the construction of a dam built to flood the Burnhope Burn valley, a tributary of the river Wear in County Durham. Construction lasted 1931 to 1937. The loco was then sold to Dinorwic Slate Quarry. Now part of the Hollycombe steam collection. Has operated on their narrow gauge railway. Now being overhauled and in need of a new boiler.