Overseas Locomotives

Hello all,

I am trying to build a vague list of all the foreign locomotives in the UK, such as the Swedish and Norwegian locomotives. Can anyone help? Feel free to throw in known locomotives and their locations!

Many thanks

Chris

 

OK, for starters there are four ex-Southern Railway USA tanks - two at the KESR, one at the Bluebell and one at ?? There are also some ex-Yugoslav versions of the same that have no genuine UK mainline history, but would fit your criteria of foreign locos over here.

Tom

 

The fourth USA tank (30072) is at the Keithley and Worth Valley Railway, who also have a S160 2-8-0 (ex Poland) and a WD 2-10-0 that worked in Poland? but was built in the UK. KESR has a Norwegian mogul.
Daniel

 

Foreign built or foreign run?

 

Good question, I suppose locomotives that were built and operated overseas, but have been preserved in the UK. It's more for interest then any other reason.

I knew the K&ESR had the Norwegian mogul, wasn't sure if it was still there? Didn't the Nene Valley have one too?

 

I think that the Worth Valley's WD is a 2-8-0. It was British built, but I think worked in Sweden and possibly the Netherlands, rather than Poland. There are some repatriated British built WD 2-10-0s which worked in Greece - one on the North Norfolk, numbered 90775 (which was the next number in the series) and one on the NYMR, 3672 "Dame Vera Lynn".

The Severn Valley's 8f, No. 48773 worked abroad before repatriation. somewhere in the Middle East, where it sustained a dent as a result of a collision with a camel, which is still visible. The Glos-Warwicks have an ex- Turkish 8F, which was LMS 8274 and then TCDD 45160. Another two British-built ex-Turkish State Railways 8Fs were repatriated a year or two back, but one was subsequently re-exported to Israel.

If this thread is to include British-built engines which worked abroad on loan, there are also North British J36 65243 Maude, SECR "P" classes 27, 323 and 753 and GWR mogul 5322, all of which were sent overseas in World War I. I think some Dean Goods 0-6-0s were also sent abroad, but whether preserved 2516 was one of them I have no idea.

Apart from the USA tanks and possibly one or two of the S160s, I can't think of any foreign-built locos which ran in the UK and which have survived into preservation. Most engines not built at the companies' own works were usually built by a UK manufacturer. One of few exceptions were some of the SECR L Class, which were built by Borsig of Berlin, just prior to the start of World War 1. Regrettably, none of this class have survived..

 

Don"t forget the Nene Railway in Peterborough with it"s foreign contingent

 

I had it in my head that they were going to sell 3672, not sure why.

On that point, isn't 2253 (the S160) for sale? Poor condition though, if I'm correct?

 

Actually, what happened to 6046, I thought that was at the NYMR too?

 

Standard gauge (I have a list)only or narrow gauge too? If both you need to invest in the IRS book.

 

Standard for now, I imagine the narrow gauge list would be quite substantial!

 

Don't forget the Chinese loco in the NRM!
Tom

 

If Bressingham is mentioned you can't miss out the massive Peer Gynt plus a finnish (ok different gauge) 2-8-0 at the front. Plus Yvonne at Holycombe was built in Belgium. Then you have Polish 'Spartan' at Spa Valley.

 

Epping Ongar Railway still has a couple of Finnish 5' gauge locos which have been reported at risk of scrapping unless someone buys them and takes them away.

 

The KESR Norwegian 2-6-0 is NSB no.376, recently back in service after overhaul. Bressingham have no.377 of the same type. They arrived in the UK at around the same time but I don't believe they've ever been seen together in this country.

 

How regularly do the K&ESR use the Norwegian?

 

Norwegian is rostered Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week according to the KESR website.

 

Probably errors esp re Finland but of the larger gauges...


CHINA
607 NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM

DENMARK
385 MIDDLETON
656 NENE VALLEY
996 RAILWORLD,PETERBOROUGH

FINLAND
794 EPPING AND ONGAR
799 SELLINDGE
792 ENFIELD TIMBER COMPANY
1103 SPIRIT OF WEST AMERICAN THEME PARK
1134 SELLINDGE
1008 EPPING AND ONGAR
1016 LONG AND SOUTHVILLE,SOUTHBERRY,LONDON
1144 STEAM TRACTION,ACTON
1157 BINBROOK
1077 STEAM TRACTION,ACTON
1060 EPPING AND ONGAR


GERMANY
64305 NENE VALLEY

NORWAY
376 KENT AND EAST SUSSEX
377 BRESSINGHAM
5865 BRESSINGHAM

PAKISTAN
3157 MANCHESTER MUS SCI AND INDUSTRY

POLAND
TY2.7173 EXPORTED
TKH2871 CHURNET VALLEY
TKH2944 HOTSPUR CHURNET VALLEY
TKH3135 SPARTEN SPA VALLEY
TKH3138 HUTNIK APPLEBY FRODINGHAM
TKH4015 KAROL AVON VALEY
TKH5374 VANGUARD NORTHAMPTON AND LAMPORT
TKP5485 NENE VALLEY


S.AFRICA
2352 MANCHESTER MUS SCI AND INDUSTRY
4112 SUMMERLEE
3405 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RLY CENTRE
390 SHILDON

SWEDEN
1178 NENE VALLEY
1313 STEPHENSON RLY MUSEUM
1697 101 NENE VALLEY
1928 SPA VALLEY

TASMANIA
M2 TANFIELD

YUGOSLAVIA
62669 30075 BARROW HILL
62521 MID HANTS

USA
2253 NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS
3278 ISLE OF PURBECK
5197 CHURNET VALLEY
5820 KEIGHLEY AND WORTH VALLEY
6046 NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS
70284 CREAT CENTRAL,RUDDINGTON
70610 GREAT CENTRAL,RUDDINGTON
69621 GREAT CENTRAL,RUDDINGTON

 

There are quite a few narrow gauge as well.