In need of some extensive tender loving care is the derelict remains of this Manning Wardle 0-6-0ST standing on a bit of isolated track at Ruddington, Great Central Railway (North), 21st April 2014.

Locomotive History
This engine was built in 1921, works number 2015 for the Welsh Water Board and was number 5. It spent most of its working life at Abernant in South Wales and following withdrawal ended up in a childrens playground in Birmingham until rescued for “preservation” in 1989.

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Lambton Colliery Railway 0-6-2T 29 at Pickering, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, 30th May 2023.

Locomotive History
29 was built by Kitson and Co in 1904 and would serve on the colliery system for the next sixty five years until withdrawn in February 1969 only three months after an overhaul. Sold for preservation in January 1970 it moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway where has been based ever since.

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Manchester Ship Canal No. 32 waits to depart from Bury Bolton Street station with a short freight for Ramsbottom, 24th May 2009. MSC 32 is a Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T and was for a long time painted as Thomas the Tank Engine, however I am glad to say it is now in a more sensible livery.

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Austerity 0-6-0ST NCB 35 Norman stands in the yard at Embsay, 31st December 2017.

Locomotive History
During the Second World War, the War Department was persuaded by Hunslet that a simplified version of their modern 50550 design would be the solution to its needs for a 0-6-0 shunting engine. The first was completed by Hunslet at the start of 1943 and assisted by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co., W. G. Bagnall, Hudswell Clarke, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and the Vulcan Foundry three hundred and seventy seven had been built for the War Department by 1947. Production continued for industrial use until 1964 by which time four hundred and eighty five locomotives had been built. NCB 35 was built in 1943 by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns (work no. 7086) and numbered WD5050. Initially used at Long Marston it was renumbered 75050 in August 1944 and moved to France in December 1944. It returned to the United Kingdom in February 1946, sold to Doncaster Amalgamated Colliery Ltd and renumbered 35. In 1970 it moved to Askern Main Colliery and was sold in 1976 to the Titanic Steamship Company. Purchased by the Kent and East Sussex Railway in 1979 and renumbered 27 it is currently owned by the Southern Locomotive Group. On hire to the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway it has reverted to its colliery identity.

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Austerity 0-6-0ST NCB 49 takes water at Andrews House station, Tanfield Railway, 8st June 2025.

Locomotive History
During the Second World War, the War Department was persuaded by Hunslet that a simplified version of their modern 50550 design would be the solution to its needs for a 0-6-0 shunting engine. The first was completed by Hunslet at the start of 1943 and assisted by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co., W. G. Bagnall, Hudswell Clarke, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and the Vulcan Foundry three hundred and seventy seven had been built for the War Department by 1947. Production continued for industrial use until 1964 by which time four hundred and eighty five locomotives had been built. NCB 49 was built in 1943 by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns (work no. 7098) and numbered WD5062. It was later renumbered 75062 and based at the Melbourne Military Railway, Derbyshire. In May 1946 it was loaned to the Ministry of Fuel and Power and used initially in the East midlands at Swannington and later Bennerley. In April 1947 it moved to Backworth in Northumberland and was purchased by the National Coal Board in 1952. It basically remained in the Backworth area until purchased for preservation in March 1976 and arrived at the Tanfield Railway in June 1980. Overhauled it returned to traffic around 2001 until withdrawn for overhaul again in September 2011 which was completed in March 2018.

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