Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway

48hp 'Baby Ruston'

This locomotive has recently been sold to an enthusiast in Scotland - Tain in Ross-shire. Here its new owner has established a small relics and railwayana museum, and is restoring a GNoSR coach. Its former owner sold it owing to the limited use it would be to the railway, and the nature of the repairs required for it to be used on the line. We wish it all the best!

The ruston nearing completion on the shed road at Embsay. (C) Robert Milner The completed Ruston shunting in Embsay Station. (C) Robert Milner
This small 48hp Ruston Hornsby (No. 294268) was built in 1950, and really is just a smaller version of sister locomotive 887, also a 4wDM loco. It came to the railway from the Tyne Improvement Commission, South Shields, and was recently overhauled and returned to service. Although it is a tiny diesel, it is used for shunting, and has even managed to get to Bolton Abbey Station on one occasion!
(c) Robert Milner (both)

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