Built
1954
Model / Class
Hunslet Engine Co, "Austerity"
Original operator
NCB
Built in 1954 by Hunslet Engine Co, Leeds as an "Austerity" class of loco based on the War Department design. It entered service with the NCB in East Fife and continued as a Scottish NCB loco at various collieries until 1970. Sold for scrap in 1972, the loco entered preservation and eventually re-entered service on the North Norfolk Railway in 1988 and continued running there until 2006. Bought by the current owner in 2008 the loco was then subject to an extensive overhaul where the loco returned to service on the GCR in 2024. The loco returns to the railway having been on hire to the North Norfolk Railway for a period.