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T Minus and Counting 2016


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Hunslet 0-6-0ST Sapper

Sapper was built in 1944 for the War Department by the Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds. Works number 3153, the WD gave her the number 75103. She was renumbered 132 after the war. 

After her military service, she was purchased by the National Coal Board for colliery work alongside many of her sisters. She has the distinction of being the last steam locomotive in industrial service in the UK, being taken out of use from Bold Colliery in 1984. After initial preservation at Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum, she came to the SDR in 1994 where she worked for a couple of seasons before withdrawal.

Remarkably, over 80 of these versatile ex-WD locomotives have survived into preservation. 

Sapper was sold by the SDR to a private buyer in 2009. 

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After an active life of eighty-four years, #132 steamed for the last time in 1961, and 
public displays became less and less frequent. In 1977, the AT&SF made a commitment to donate #132 to the Kansas Historical Society for display 
at the Kansas Museum of History,

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3 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Look at this beast;

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Nice, Grumpy posted a bull nose one the other day which got me looking. Steam Turbine was the journey I took, I'd guess this is one of those :)

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1 hour ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Unfortunately I can't find any further details about it for your reading pleasure. Apologies :)

Here you go pop pickers; I posted the link as it's quite an article.

http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/sunday-streamline-67-algerian-garratts

Beauty :)

 

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17 minutes ago, oneeye said:

Here you go pop pickers; I posted the link as it's quite an article.

http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/sunday-streamline-67-algerian-garratts

Beauty :)

Liked the sound of the roundhouse, seen a few of those around. This looks like the Algiers one with modernisation all around it! Oh my what did you do Mr Oneye :)

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18 minutes ago, oneeye said:

Here you go pop pickers; I posted the link as it's quite an article.

http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/sunday-streamline-67-algerian-garratts

Beauty :)

 

Nice one oneeye. That was a good read, despite some of it sounding like it may as well be in Russian (the technical bits). What about that bloke hacking his own arm of with a pen knife. Doesn't bear thinking about.

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12 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Nice one oneeye. That was a good read, despite some of it sounding like it may as well be in Russian (the technical bits). What about that bloke hacking his own arm of with a pen knife. Doesn't bear thinking about.

Gutsy move that's for sure, limb removal is not good in any circumstances. I see that the bloke responsible was executed, maybe a tad extreme.

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15 minutes ago, whisty said:

Liked the sound of the roundhouse, seen a few of those around. This looks like the Algiers one with modernisation all around it! Oh my what did you do Mr Oneye :)

 

I've stirred the spotter demons that lie deep and hidden in all of us :)

 

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