List of preserved Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST locomotives

On the Chasewater Railway

This table details the steam locomotives of the Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST class that have been preserved on heritage railways. Of the 485 'Austerities' constructed, around 70 have survived into preservation.

Although the Hunslet Engine Company were responsible for the design, not all of these locomotives were built by the company. In order to meet wartime demand, Hunslet subcontracted some of the construction to Andrew Barclay Sons & Co., W. G. Bagnall, Hudswell Clarke, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and the Vulcan Foundry.

Several have been painted as LNER Class J94s to represent mainline rather than industrial use. Not all have survived intact; the boiler of RSH 7135 of 1944 was used on the replica Broad gauge locomotive "Iron Duke" built in 1985. At least one has been turned into a Thomas the Tank Engine lookalike, and another into one of Douglas, also from The Railway Series.

The Scottish Railway Preservation Society have formed an Austerity Locomotive Owners Association (A.L.O.A.)^[1] with the aim of being a central point for owners of Austerity locomotives to share information and assistance.

Year Built	Builder	Works Number	Original User	Current Number and Name	Current Location	Status	Livery	Notes
1943	Hudswell Clarke	1752	War Department 75091, National Coal Board	NCB Bold Colliery 7 Robert	Great Central Railway	Undergoing overhaul	NCB Lined Green	Named at Bold Colliery in 1978.[2]
1943	Barclay	2183	War Department 71529, WD 165 EG Steels of Hamilton	Wemyss Private Railway 15 Earl David	Avon Valley Railway	Operational	WPR Lined Brown	Named in 2009 at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.[3][4]
1943	Hunslet	2857	War Department 75008	75008 Swiftsure	East Lancashire Railway	Operational	WD Green	[5]
1943	Hunslet	2864	War Department 75015	48	Strathspey Railway	Stored		[5]
1943	RSH	5062	Ministry of Fuel & Power, Coalville, Leicestershire NCB (North East Area) - Backworth	49	Tanfield Railway	Stored	Lined Green
1943	Hunslet	2880	War Department 75031, WD 101	17	SRPS at Bo'ness	Dismantled		Bought by NCB in 1961 and used at Polkemmet Colliery, West Lothian.[6]
1943	Hunslet	2890	War Department 75041 WD 107	10 "Douglas"	Ribble Steam Railway	Undergoing overhaul	NWR Black	Converted to an 0-6-0 tender engine as No. 10 Douglas. Formerly based at Mid Hants Railway.
1943	RSH	7086	War Department 75050	69 Norman	Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway	Operational	N. C. B. Black	At The Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway
1943	RSH	7097	War Department 75061	9	Strathspey Railway	Stored		[5]
1943	Hudswell Clarke	1737	War Department 75080	NS 8811	Stoom Stichting Nederland, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Operational		Sold on to Nederlandse Spoorwegen (No. 8811) after the war. Sold to Julia colliery, Eygelshoven (NL) in 1953 as 'Julia IV', renumbered as LV 13 in 1962. Went out of service after colliery closed in 1974. Was still under steam in 1975 when cleaning up the remains of the colliery. Giving this locomotive the status of last operational steam enginge in The Netherlands. Stored in the former locomotive shed until discovery in 1981.
1944	W.G.Bagnall	2758	War Department 75170		Cefn Coed Colliery Museum, Crynant	Static display		NCB[7]
1944	Hudswell Clarke	1776	War Department 71499	Harry	Horwich, Lancashire	Under overhaul		Sold to NCB post war. Destined for use on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway[8]
1944	Hunslet	3155	War Department 75105	Walkden	Ribble Steam Railway	Operational		Sold on to Nederlandse Spoorwegen (No. 8815) after the war. Sold to Laura colliery, Eygelshoven (NL) in 1953 as Laura 16, renumbered as LV 16 in 1962. Boiler exam expired in 1970, received the boiler from LV 15 (Hudswell C. 1739/1943) Sold to SSTT in 1975. Sold to P.E. Waters Associates Railway Engineers in 1988.[9]
1944	Hunslet	3163	War Department 75113, WD 132	WD 132 Sapper	East Lancashire Railway	Operational	WD Green	Previously on the South Devon Railway. Sold in 2009 to unnamed private buyer.[10] Refurbished by the Flour Mill 2010-2011.
1944	Hunslet	3165	War Department 75115	NS 8826	Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij, Limburg, Netherlands	Under overhaul		Sold on to Nederlandse Spoorwegen (No. 8826) after the war. Sold to Julia colliery, Eygelshoven (NL) in 1953 as 'Julia V', renumbered as LV 14 in 1962. Went out of service after boiler exam expired in 1973
1944	Hunslet	3168	War Department 75118, WD 134	Wheldale	Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway	Under overhaul	Lined maroon	[11]
1944	Hunslet	3193	War Department 75142, WD 140	Norfolk Regiment	Norfolk Heritage Steam Railway Ltd.	Under overhaul	Black
1944	RSH	7136	War Department 75186 WD 150	68013 Royal Pioneer	Peak Rail	Under Overhaul
1944	RSH	7139	War Department 75189, WD 152, N.C.B. No. 8	WD 152 Rennes	Dean Forest Railway	Under overhaul	Prussian Blue - Longmoor Military Railway	Sold to NCB post war.[12]
1944	RSH	7169	War Department 71515	71515	Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway	Operational	Indian Red - Mech Navvies livery	Sold to NCB post war and used at Swalwell. Converted at East Somerset Railway to resemble J94.Then to Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway as 68005[13] Overhauled at the Flour Mill in the Forest of Dean and returned to service in private ownership at Blaenavon in 2010.[14][15]
1944	RSH	7170	War Department 71516	Welsh Guardsman	Gwili Railway	Under overhaul		[16]
1944	Hunslet	2868 (rebuilt as 3883 of 1963)	War Department 75019 WD 168	68012 Lord Phil	Peak Rail	Operational		[17][18]
1945	Hudswell Clarke	1782	War Department 71505, WD 118	LMR 118 Brussels	Keighley and Worth Valley Railway	Stored	Longmoor Military Railway	Originally preserved by the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway from the Longmoor Military Railway.
1945	W.G.Bagnall	2777	War Department 75254, WD 175	Alloa Area No. 7	SRPS at Bo'ness	Operational		Sold to NCB in 1963.[6]
1945	W.G.Bagnall	2779	War Department 75256	No 2779 Gamma	Tanfield Railway	Stored	Black Lined red	Spent time working at: Longmoor Military Railway (1945), Brandon C Colliery outside Durham (1946), Vane Tempest Colliery at Seaham (1967) and appeared repainted as 2502/7 in the Stockton and Darlington Railway 150th Anniversary at Shildon (1975).[19] Before being bought and operated as sister locomotive Bowes No20 at the Tanfield Railway whilst on loan to Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway until 1993 when she continued operating at Tanfield.
1945	Vulcan Foundry	5272	War Department 75282, WD 181 Insein	Haulwen	Gwili Railway	Operational	Lined Green	Rebuilt in 1961 by Hunslet (works number 3879).[20]
1945	Vulcan Foundry	5309	War Department 75319	68072	Mangapps Railway Museum, Essex			Sold to NCB after World War II, numbered 72, returned to service in April 2013 at Llangollen Railway,[21] from 2015 at Mangapps railway museum.
1945	RSH	7289	War Department 71480 From 1946 with National Coal Board (North Western) at Walkden and Leigh collieries	Fred	Tyseley Locomotive Works (at 2003)	Stored		Preserved at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway from 1969[22] Now part of the Somerset & Dorset Locomotive Collection and relocated to Tyseley[23] In 1963, this was one of the Austerities fitted with the Porta / Hunslet Gas Producer Combustion System and underfed stoker.[23] Although the stoker had fallen from use by the time of its preservation, the firebox and Kylpor ejector with its distinctive 'Sontaran' chimney are one of the few Austerities so-fitted to survive(also [24]) and the only example in relatively complete condition.[23]
1947	Barclay	2215	War Department 71466 LNER 8077 working at Immingham Docks, then NCB no.14 in 1962	68077	Spa Valley Railway	Under overhaul	Unknown	Originally preserved by the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in 1971 where it was tested and the withdrawn due for fitting of vacuum brakes and steam heat. Went on loan to the Spa Valley Railway for overhaul in 2005
1949	Hunslet	3686	National Coal Board	60	Strathspey Railway	Dismantled		[5]
1950	Hunslet	3694	National Coal Board	Whiston	Foxfield Railway	Operational	Lined green NCB	[25]
1950	Hunslet	3696	National Coal Board	Respite	Ribble Steam Railway	Stored		[26]
1950	Hunslet	3698	National Coal Board	Repulse	Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway	Operational		[27]
1952	Hunslet	3776	National Coal Board	8 Warspite	Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway			[28]
1952	Hunslet	3777	National Coal Board	68030 Josiah Wedgwood	Crewe Heritage Centre	Stored	BR Black	On hire from Churnet Valley Railway.[5]
1952	Hunslet	3781	National Coal Board	1 "Thomas"	Mid Hants Railway	Operational	NWR Blue	Converted from a saddle-tank to side-tank design to create No. 1 "Thomas" in 1994
1953	Hunslet	3785	National Coal Board	69	Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway	Stored		[29]
1953	Hunslet	3788	National Coal Board	Monckton No.1	Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway	Stored		[30]
1953	Hunslet	3790	War Department 190	190	Colne Valley Railway	Operational	Army Olive Green	[31]
1953	Hunslet	3791	War Department 191 Black Knight	23 Holman F Stephens	Kent & East Sussex Railway	Operational	Lined Olive Green	Withdrawn in August 1968. Sold out of Army service, arrived on K&ESR in February 1972.[32]
1953	Hunslet	3792	War Department 192 Waggoner	WD 92 Waggoner	Isle of Wight Steam Railway	Operational	LMR Blue	Moved to the Isle of Wight on loan from the National Army Museum in 2005: ownership transferred to IOWSR in 2008.[33]
1953	Hunslet	3793	War Department 193	Shropshire	Ribble Steam Railway	Under overhaul		Named at the Severn Valley Railway in 1977.[34]
1953	Hunslet	3794	War Department 194	10 Cumbria	Ribble Steam Railway	Operational	Furness Railway Indian Red	Previously on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway between 1974 and 2009. Owned by the Furness Railway Trust.[35][36]
1953	Hunslet	3796	War Department 196 Errol Lonsdale	68011 Errol Lonsdale	Stoomcentrum Maldegem		Black, to be painted in WD green after restoration.	Initially preserved on the Kent & East Sussex Railway from the Longmoor Military Railway, where it was used in the filming of The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery in 1966. Moved to the Mid Hants Railway prior to 1977, and then to the South Devon Railway in 1992. Sold in 2009 to unnamed private buyer[10]
1953	Hunslet	3797	War Department 197 Sapper	25 Northiam	Kent & East Sussex Railway	Stored		Arrived on K&ESR in September 1977.[32]
1953	Hunslet	3798	War Department 198 Royal Engineer	WD 198 Royal Engineer	Isle of Wight Steam Railway	Under Repair	WD Green	Moved to the Isle of Wight on loan from the National Army Museum in 1991: ownership transferred to IOWSR in 2008. Currently out of service for a repair to the boiler.[37]
1953	Hunslet	3800	War Department 200	200	Colne Valley Railway	Under Overhaul		Arrived at the Colne Valley Railway in June 2014.[38]
1953	Hunslet	3806	National Coal Board	Wilbert	Dean Forest Railway	Operational		Named by the Rev W Awdry in 1987.[39]
1953	Hunslet	3809	National Coal Board		Great Central Railway	Under overhaul
1954	Hunslet	3810	National Coal Board	Glendower	South Devon Railway	Stored		[40]
1954	Hunslet	3818	National Coal Board	East Fife Area No. 19	SRPS at Bo'ness	Operational	Green	Previously carried spurious BR Livery and number 68019.[6]
1954	Hunslet	3823	National Coal Board	Warrior	Dean Forest Railway	Under overhaul		[41]
1955	Hunslet	3825	National Coal Board	"LNER 8009"	Kirby Stephen East	Under overhaul
1955	Hunslet	3829	National Coal Board		Gwili Railway	Stored
1955	Hunslet	3837	National Coal Board	5	SRPS at Bo'ness	Dismantled		Used at Michael and Comrie Collieries in Scotland.[6]
1956	Hunslet	3839	National Coal Board	Wimblebury	Foxfield Railway	Under overhaul	Lined blue	[25]
1956	Hunslet	3840	National Coal Board	Pamela	Garw Valley Railway	Stored		Originally worked out of Maesteg and St John's Washery, Llynvi Valley. Previously in the possession of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway (now defunct), before being loaned to the Lincolnshire Wold Railway. Ownership transferred to Garw Valley Railway in 2012.
1956	Hunslet	3844	National Coal Board	United Steel Company No.22	Appleby Frodingham Railway	Operational	Lined Maroon	On loan from the Appleby Frodingham Railway
1958	Hunslet	3850	Ironstone Quarry Railways	Juno	Isle of Wight Steam Railway	Stored	Green	Transferred to the Isle of Wight from the Ivatt Steam Trust in 2009.On loan to the National Railway Museum from October 2010 and on display at Shildon.[42]
1964	Hunslet	3889	National Coal Board	65	Dean Forest Railway	Under overhaul	Departmental Yellow	Formerly at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.[43] Moved to Rutland in 1989 and to Dean Forest 2015.[44]
1964	Hunslet	3890	National Coal Board	66	Buckinghamshire Railway Centre	Under overhaul	Green	[45]

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External links

• Preserved UK Railway Locomotives Database