2015 the 150th anniversary of the Hunslet Engine Company

This page has just four of the many steam locomotive at the Middleton railway.

North Eastern Railway no.1310 0-4-0 a steam locomotive built in 1891, on Sunday 19th July 2015, not in steam in the shed yard, not being used for the Hunslet 150 event.

Manchester Ship Canal No. 67 an Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T that built in 1919 on display inside. 

Henry De Lacy II an Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0ST that was built in 1917 and on display inside.

Peckett 0-4-0ST no.2103 built in 1948 on display inside.

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.