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S3: NER '1310'
0-4-0T steam locomotive, NER class H
Built | 1891, at Gateshead |
Weight | 22 tons 14 cwt |
Length over buffers | 20' 7" (approx 6.3 m) |
Driving wheels | 3' 5" diameter (approx 100 cm) |
Cylinders | 2 (inside), 14" diameter (approx 355 mm) |
Previously worked | North Eastern Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, then Pelaw Main colliery and Watergate colliery |
Entered collection | Purchased from National Coal Board in 1965 by the Steam Power Trust 65 |
Current status | Operational |
More details of this locomotive are given in our stockbook.
Go on to steam locomotive S5: Hudswell-Clarke 1309.
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S1: Sentinel 8837
0-4-0VBGT steam locomotive, '68153'
Built | 1933, at Shrewsbury |
Weight | 19 tons 6 cwt |
Length over buffers | 19' 3" (approx 5.9 m) |
Driving wheels | 2' 6" diameter (approx 75 cm) |
Cylinders | 2 (vertical geared), 6.75" diameter (approx 168 mm) |
Previously worked | London and North Eastern Railway and then British Railways, in the Geneva permanent way yard, Darlington |
Entered collection | Purchased from British Railways in 1961 |
Current status | Operational |
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D13: Hunslet 6981
0-4-0 diesel mechanical locomotive 'Phillips 66'
Built | 1968, at Leeds |
Weight | 35 tons 0 cwt |
Length over buffers | 24' 9" (approx 7.5 m) |
Driving wheels | 3' 9" diameter (approx 114 cm) |
Engine | 6 cylinder Rolls-Royce, 252 hp |
Previously worked | Conoco-Phillips Humber Oil Refinery |
Entered collection | Purchased by an MRT member in 2011, and then by the MRT in 2017 |
Current status | Undergoing restoration to operational condition |
More details of this locomotive are given in our stockbook.
Go on to diesel locomotive D14: Hudswell Clarke D1373.
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D11: Fowler 4220033
0-4-0 diesel mechanical locomotive "Harry"
Built | 1965, at Leeds |
Weight | 30 tons 0 cwt |
Length over buffers | 21' 1" (approx 6.4 m) |
Driving wheels | 3' 6" diameter (approx 107 cm) |
Engine | 6 cylinder Leyland, 230 hp |
Previously worked | British Industrial Sugar, Wissington, Norfolk |
Entered collection | Purchased from Northamptonshire Ironstone Trust in 2007 |
Current status | Operational |
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