Stewarts & Lloyds 0-6-0ST No. 63 'Corby'
Ongar, Essex, UK
Location: Epping Ongar Railway
Status: Overhaul
Posted: Jan 22, 2025 @ 13:01:54 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on ex Stewarts & Lloyds Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns built 0-6-0ST (Works No. 7761) No. 63 "Corby", is now getting underway at the Epping Ongar Railway with work on removing the tubes from the boiler ready for work to be carried out.
Posted: Feb 2, 2021 @ 13:02:39 by Russell Newman
The ex Stewarts & Lloyds Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns built 0-6-0ST No. 63 "Corby" has left the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) as it has been sold and relocated to the Epping Ongar Railway in Essex where the locomotive will now be part of their running fleet there.
Posted: May 9, 2003 @ 10:05:24 by Steve Frost
One of a class of powerful 0-6-0STs built for Stewarts and LLoyds Corby steel plant and iron ore quarries. Officially class 56, they are universally known as 'Uglies' because, well, they are a bit ugly. The saddle tank was, unusually, not made to extend from smokebox to cab, being cut short and not covering the firebox. This gave them a peculiar 'hunched shoulders' look. But, as Ron Zeil said '..ugliness is a most desirable trait in a saddle tanker..'. So that's all right, then. The picture shows No 63 standing at Oxenhope when it was operating on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in the 1970's.