Anna at Stonehenge works
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Built, by Alan Keef in 1999 ,to LBR specifications for passenger train and standby duties, “Beaudesert” used many parts from an earlier 900mm gauge Simplex locomotive, supplied to the National Coal Board in 1979, and later used as a shunter on the Channel Tunnel construction project. It is powered by a 112hp Dorman diesel engine. Named after a school in the old part of Leighton Buzzard, and the school which replaced it, near the Railway in the Planets Estate.
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No.4 Doll at Page's Park on the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
Doll was built by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. in 1919 and was one of three identical engines built for Hickmanas at Sydenham ironstone quarries, near Banbury in Oxfordshire. The quarries were closed in 1925 following the takeover by Stewarts & Lloyds Minerals in April 1925, and the three engines (named after Hickmans daughters) were transferred to Bilston steelworks, near Wolverhampton. Doll worked at Bilston until withdrawal from service in 1959.
In 1960 Doll was moved to the Burton Green & District Light Railway near Kenilworth in Warwickshire, where she was returned to steam in 1962. In 1966, Doll was sold to Alan Bloom of Bressingham, The locomotive was sold to Henry Williams who in turn sold her to the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in 1969!
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Ruston locomotive and tipplers at Stonehenge Works
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Stonehenge Works plaque
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