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2015 the 150th anniversary of the Hunslet Engine Company

 Beatrice a 0-6-0ST Hunslet

Beatrice is a 0-6-0ST Hunslet which had come for the event from the Embsay and Bolton Abbey railway. The locomotive is running round ithe train , on the 19th July 2015 at the Middleton Park railway station  of the Middleton Railway at Hunslet in Leeds, on the Sunday during the Hunslet 150 event.

Beatrice a 0-6-0ST Hunslet on the Balm Road branch 

Beatrice a 0-6-0ST Hunslet on the Balm Road branch.

 NCB no. 66  a 0-6-0ST  on the 19th July 2015

NCB no. 66  a 0-6-0ST on the 19th July 2015 across the ungated Moor road from the Balm Road branch and into the Moor railway station  of the Middleton Railway at Hunslet in Leeds, on the Sunday afternoon during the Hunslet 150 event.

NCB no.66 0-6-0ST  

NCB no.66 0-6-0ST along the Balm Road branch. 0-6-0ST Beatrice is at the rear of this mixed  train.

NCB No. 66 light engine

NCB No. 66 light engine in Moor Road station

NCB No. 66 had come from the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre for this weekend .

This steam locomotive is the 484 Austerity (and the  last ) and was built in Febuary 1964 as works number no.3890 by the Hunslet the Engine Co. Ltd. This was the last standard steam locomotive to be built in the UK for the home use. The locomotive becoming NCB No. 66 in the South Yorkshire NCB fleet and went to Cadeby Main Colliery at Conisborough in March 1964

It was to be 2008 when the next standard gauge steam locomitve Tornado was built in the UK for use in the UK.

NCB 0-6-0ST no.19

NCB no. 19  a 0-6-0ST on the 19th July 2015  station  of the Middleton Railway at Middleton Park station in Leeds, on the Sunday during the Hunslet 150 event.

 

NCB no.66 0-6-0ST at Moor Road station after taking water.

This 0-6-0ST is NCB No19 and  is from the Bo'ness and Kinneil railway in Scotland. This is its the first  the trip back to Leeds in 60 years. 

 

The Middleton Railway is a standard gauge railway that is run by volunteers. The railway runs it trains between Moor Road station and Middleton Park, in Hunslet in the south of Leeds. The Middleton Railway is the world’s oldest working railway.

On the 18th &19th of July 2015  The Middleton Railway held a Hunslet 150 event. This event was to elebrate the 150th anniversary of the Hunslet Engine Company a famous producer of both steam and diesel locomotives and other engineering products in Leeds.

As well as trains between the Moor Road station and Middleton Park station, trains also operated over the Balm Road branch.

There were also two narrow gage Hunslet steam locomotives at what was the Hunslet works site on Jack Lane on temporary narrow gauge track laid just for the weekend in the car park at Schneider Electric. A vintage bus being laid on by the railway to ferry people between Moor Road and Jack Lane.

 

Middleton Railway 19th July 2015

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Beatrice no7 a 0-6-0ST Hunslet  +  NCB No. 66  0-6-0ST Hunslet + NCB No19 0-6-0ST Hunslet  This Page

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2 narrow gauge steam Hunslet quarry locomotves     

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Hunslet diesels 7051 Courage + a mine locomotive+ Four diesel locomotives

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Four steam locomotives

 
 
 
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