JZ1 0-6-0T No. 62.669 (Carries fictitious 30075)
Shillingstone, Dorset, UK 		Location: North Dorset Railway
Status: Overhaul
Abbreviation Expansion English
1 JZ Jugoslavenske/Jugoslovenske željeznice Yugoslav Railways
Posted: Apr 24, 2025 @ 13:04:05 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on the Yugoslavian built Class 62 USA Type 0-6-0T No. 30075 (JZ 62.669), is now nearing the end as it was steamed for the first time since 2010 at the end of March 2025. While not a full steam test, the trial did reveal that both injectors are working properly and showed up a few leaks that are now being rectified. It is hoped another steam test will happen soon as No. 30075 will soon be operational again soon.
Posted: Jan 20, 2025 @ 14:01:38 by Russell Newman
With repairs completed to its large injector, the Yugoslavian built Class 62 USA Type 0-6-0T No. 30075 (JZ 62.669), soon undergo another steam test at Shillingstone when its side tanks have been refitted and the fitment of the repaired large injector are back on for another go in the coming weeks.
Posted: Oct 11, 2024 @ 11:10:33 by Russell Newman
Work on the Yugoslavian built Class 62 USA Type 0-6-0T No. 30075 (JZ 62.669), has temporarily paused while its large injector is being overhauled. But in the meantime minor jobs have been carried out on the locomotive which looks set to return to traffic in 2025.
Posted: Jun 12, 2024 @ 14:06:19 by Russell Newman
The Yugoslavian built Class 62 USA Type 0-6-0T No. 30075 (JZ 62.669), was steamed for the first time since 2010 in readyness for its final boiler inspection as its overhaul nears completion.
Posted: Aug 17, 2023 @ 11:08:34 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on the Yugoslavian built European copy Class 62 USA 0-6-0T No. 30075 (JZ 62.669) is now in sight of completion as the boiler fittings are in place and the side tanks have just been refitted to the locomotive. No. 30075 will be on display over the August Bank Holiday weekend during the North Dorset Railway’s Open Weekend marking 160 years of the opening of Shillingstone Station on the route of the legendry Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. After the event No. 30075 will have some final work carried out before steam tests soon.
Posted: Dec 27, 2022 @ 06:12:13 by Russell Newman
This is the history of the Yugoslavian built pirate copy Class 62 USA 0-6-0T No. 30075 (JZ 62.669). During the Second World War the United States of America introduced the S100 Class 0-6-0T for the United States Army Transportation Corps in 1942 to 1943 from the American Steam Locomotives works of Vulcan Ironworks, Davenport and H K Porter. for use out in Europe and other parts of the world during the 1940s. Over 400 S100 Class USA 0-6-0T’s that were sent out to Europe during and after the second world war working in the UK, France, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. After the second world war ended many of the S100 Class USA 0-6-0T’s were sold for use out in Europe, in the UK 14 S100 Class USA 0-6-0T’s were sold to the Southern Railway for use at Southampton Docks and for shunting dutys on other parts of the Southern and later British Railways which their BR running numbers where from 30061 to 30074 and Departmental Stock numbers DS233 to DS238 where they worked unitl the end of steam on the Southern in 1967 and some were even sold for use with the National Coal Board in the Northeast of the UK. In Europe Class USA 0-6-0T’s were sold for use with many mainline railway companys and for Industrial use which in the former Yugoslavia they were very successful and popular that the Yugoslavian Railways built there own version of the S100 known as Class 62 USA 0-6-0T at the Duro Dakovic Industrija Lokomotiva works in Croatia which 90 where built from 1952 and 1961. The Yugoslavian built pirate copy Class 62 USA 0-6-0T was different to the S100 as it was slightly more powerful and had frame plates then bar frames like their S100 cousins. Some of the Yugoslavian built pirate copy Class 62 USA 0-6-0T’s are still at work today out in the coal fields of Bosnia. No. 30075 formerly JZ 62.669 was built in 1960 at the Duro Dakovic Industrija Lokomotiva works in Croatia for Industrial use at the Store Steelworks near Ljubljana in Slovenia. It worked there until 1990 when it was bought for preservation in the UK by a group of members from the Swanage Railway in Dorset who formed Project 62 to own the locomotive and later its sister No. 30076 (62.521). JZ 62.669 arrived at the Swanage Railway in 1990 where it was overhauled and modified and altered to fit with in the British loading gauge and made near to look like one of the Southern Railway USA 0-6-0T’s carrying the next British Railways running number in line 30075. No. 30075 ran at the Swanage Railway during the 1990s and has visited the Bristol Harbour Railway and the Bodmin & Wenford Railway during that time. It was withdrawn from service in 1998 following a major steam pipe failure. In 2002 No. 30075 was relocated to the East Somerset Railway where it was returned to traffic in 2004 and operated there for a short while before relocating to the Mid Hants Railway in 2009. In the winter of 2010 No. 30075 visited the Churnet Valley Railway for their then Winter Steam Gala in late January and early February that year as well as a visit to the then Dartmoor Railway in August that year. Following the failure of three old patches to the platework in the inner firebox No. 30075 was withdrawn from service and was relocated to Barrow Hill Roundhouse for display for a short while before moving to the Nottingham Heritage Railway (Great Central Railway (Nottingham) as it was known then) for storage until 2017 when No. 30075 moved to its new home at the North Dorset Railway Trust at the old Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway station at Shillingstone in North Dorset where it is now based and soon to steam again soon.
Posted: Oct 19, 2022 @ 14:10:55 by Russell Newman
A milestone was reached today in the overhaul of Yugoslavian built pirate copy Class 62 USA 0-6-0T No. 30075 (JZ 62.669) as the boiler and cab were refitted to the frames of the locomotive. No. 30075 is now in its final stages of its overhaul as the locomotive is expected to enter service again in 2023.
Posted: Sep 6, 2022 @ 10:09:15 by Russell Newman
The boiler of Yugoslavian built pirate copy Class 62 USA 0-6-0T No. 30075 (JZ 62.669) is being returned to Shillingstone from Vincent Engineering at Henstridge in Somerset where it has been overhauled after having been passed its hydronic tests. When it returns it will be placed on wooden sleepers for painting and then afterwords it will be lifted onto the locomotive for its steam tests and final stages of the overhaul.
Posted: Apr 15, 2022 @ 07:04:50 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on the Yugoslavian built pirate copy Class 62 USA 0-6-0T No. 30075 (JZ 62.669) is coming along well at its home at Shillingstone in North Dorset as there has been a lot of work carried out which has seen a brand new smoke box door being made along with work on inproving its ashpan. When completed No. 30075 will be turned out in British Railways Southern Region malachite green livery as it did when she first steamed in the UK after arriving from Slovenia and modifide to suit UK standards back in 1990. It is hoped that No. 30075 will be in steam in 2023 but Project 62 are still secking funding to complete the overhaul which to help they have launched to have members of the public to have their names on a nameplate costing £31 each which will be fitted in the cab of 30075. Details can be found on their website.
Posted: Jul 25, 2021 @ 12:07:07 by Russell Newman
The Yugoslavian built pirate copy USA 0-6-0T No. 30075 could be in steam early next year if plans by its owner Project 62 come together and further finance can be raised in time. Work has started reassebling the rolling chassis of the locomotive and the boiler is currently being worked on and should be completed by Christmas.
Posted: Oct 25, 2020 @ 07:10:58 by Russell Newman
The overhaul of Yugoslavian built pirate copy USA 0-6-0T No. 30075 is progressing at Shillingstone as the cylinders are to be bored and new liners are to be fitted to them and it has been unveiled that the livery that No. 30075 will be in when she returns to traffic is British Railways Malecite green livery.
Posted: Dec 16, 2017 @ 14:12:07 by Russell Newman
The boiler of Yugoslavian built pirate copy USA Dock tank shunter No. 30075 is being sent to Vincent Engineering at Henstridge in Somerset for its overhaul and repairs there. Its hoped that No. 30075 will be back in traffic again in late 2018 or 2019.
Posted: Sep 8, 2017 @ 06:09:02 by Russell Newman
As most people know 30075 never worked in the UK or was it built in the USA for the USATC. During and after the Second World War up to 400 of the S100 Class USA Tank locos where sent all across Europe to country s like France, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. 14 of them were sold to the UK for use on the Southern Railway for shunting at Southampton Docks. Out in Yugoslavia they were very successful that the Yugoslavian Railways built there own version of them known as Class 62. The Yugoslavian Class 62 USA Tanks where built from the 1950s till the 1960s with some being built in to the early 1970s. They were built for use on industrial railways and shunting yards out there and some are still in service out in country s like Bosnia and Serbia. No. 30075 formerly JZ 62.669 was built in 1960 by Duro Dakovic Industrija Lokomotiva in Croatia where the Class 62 USA Tanks were built and worked at the Store Steelworks near Ljubljana in Slovenia. It worked there till 1990 when Project 62 bought the locomotive and shipped it to the UK. It was first based at the Swanage Railway where it was given the next BR running number 30075. The loco has been based at the East Somerset Railway and the Mid Hants Railway for a few years and today is now based at Shillingstone in Dorset and is a very popular visiting other heritage railways for spot hire and Gala weekends.
Posted: Oct 18, 2016 @ 14:10:03 by Russell Newman
The location needs to be changed as 30075 is at Shillingstone in Dorset.
Posted: Jul 31, 2016 @ 10:07:56 by Russell Newman
Overhaul work to get 30075 to working order has started at Shillingstone in Dorset.
Posted: Jan 22, 2016 @ 07:01:06 by Russell Newman
Both 30075 and 30076 have now moved to there new home at the North Dorset Railway Trust at Shillingstone in Dorset. Where 30075 is to be overhauled.
Posted: Dec 7, 2015 @ 13:12:36 by Steve Frost
It should be pointed out for the sake of accuracy that no Yugoslavian built locos ever ran in the UK in normal operation. US built locos were bought from the US Army Transportation Corps by the Southern Railway as dock shunters at Southampton after World War 2.

These were numbered in the 30061 to 30074 range by British Railways after 1948. Some of the genuine ex BR locos are preserved. This one takes the next number in the sequence as 30075 which is a number that it could never have carried in the normal way of things, but sits well with its British Railways paint job.

Posted: Dec 4, 2015 @ 14:12:28 by Russell Newman
The Yugoslavia built USA Tank No. 30075 formerly JZ 62.669 along with sister Yugo USA Tank 30076 are being relocated to the Somerset and Dorset restoration project at Shillingstone in Dorset, where 30075 is to be overhauled and based there.
Posted: Feb 11, 2005 @ 10:02:56 by Richard White
A full technical specification can be found for 30075 at the Project 62 web site www.project62.supanet.com