SIR CECIL A COCHRANE
Sir Cecil. A. Cochrane was built in 1948 for use at Redheugh Gas Works in Gateshead. At some stage, it received electric lighting at the gas works, and a livery change too. Aside from a very brief spell working at St Anthony’s tar works near Walker, Newcastle, it was employed at Redheugh Gas Works for all of it’s working life. In 1998, it became one of the first engines inUK preservation to receive a new boiler.
Status: Operational, Marley Hill engine shed
Year Built: 1948
Works Number: 7409
Builder: Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd, Newcastle
Wheel Arrangement: 0-4-0ST (Saddle Tank)
Weight in Working Order: 21 tons
Working Pressure: 170psi
Wheel Diameter: 3ft 1in
Cylinders: 12” x 20” (diameter x stroke)
NATIONAL COAL BOARD NO.49
No.49 was built as No.75062 in 1943 for the War Department. Later, it was employed at Swannington Opencast Disposal Point in Leicestershire and then moved north to work for the National Coal Board on its Backworth system and surrounding collieries in Northumberland. Here it was given the number 49 and would here the remainder of its career
Status: Operational, Marley Hill engine shed
Year Built: 1943
Works Number: 7098
Builder: Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd, Newcastle (boiler built by RSH Darlington)
Wheel Arrangement: 0-6-0ST (Saddle Tank)
Weight in Working Order: 48 tons
Working Pressure: 170psi
Wheel Diameter: 4ft 3in
Cylinders: 18” x 26” (diameter x stroke)
KEIGHLEY CORPORATION GAS DEPARTMENT NO.2
No.2 was built in 1911 for the Keighley Corporation Gas Department, West Yorkshire. In 1940, it was sent to Scotland to work at the Ministry of Supply’s Royal Ordnance Factory in Cargenbridge, Dumfries. It then moved to ICI’s factory at Girvan, Ayrshire and finally to another ICI works at Anna in Dumfriesshire. It was withdrawn from use here in the 1970s
Status: Operational, Marley Hill engine shed
Year Built: 1911
Works Number: 2859
Builder: R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne
Wheel Arrangement: 0-4-0ST (Saddle Tank)
Weight in Working Order: 20 tons
Working Pressure: 160psi
Wheel Diameter: 3ft 0.5in
Cylinders: 12” x 18” (diameter x stroke)
STANLEY (LATER N.C.B NO.1 & NO.32)
Stanley was built in 1920 for use at East Tanfield Colliery, located near the southern end of the Tanfield Branch. It later worked as both No.1 and No.32 on the Bowes Railway (in NCB days), out of Marley Hill shed and later at Springwell Bank Foot shed. Its final place of work was on a section of the former Pelaw Main Railway system in the Team Valley, Gateshead. Here it operated from Starrs shed and Ravensworth Shop Pit shed.
Status: Operational, Marley Hill engine shed
Year Built: 1920
Works Number: 1659
Builder: Andrew Barclay Sons & Co Ltd, Kilmarnock, Scotland
Wheel Arrangement: 0-4-0ST (Saddle Tank)
Weight in Working Order: 28 tons
Working Pressure: 160psi
Wheel Diameter: 3ft 5in
Cylinders: 14” x 22” (diameter x stroke)
HORDEN
Horden was built in 1904 for the large Horden Colliery in County Durham. It later worked at the nearby Shotton Colliery and ended its career here. By the end of its days at Shotton, it was in quite a rundown condition. In 1972, it was used to push fellow Shotton Colliery loco ‘Stagshaw’ onto its low loader when it was leaving the colliery for preservation at Marley Hill, the place where Horden itself would end up 8 years later.
Status: Operational, Marley Hill engine shed
Year Built: 1904
Works Number: 1015
Builder: Andrew Barclay Sons & Co Ltd, Kilmarnock, Scotland
Wheel Arrangement: 0-6-0ST (Saddle Tank)
Weight in Working Order: 33 tons
Working Pressure: 160psi
Wheel Diameter: 3ft 5in
Cylinders: 15” x 22” (diameter x stroke)
TWIZELL - BEAMISH RAILWAY NO.3
‘Twizell’ was built in 1891 for use on the Beamish Railway and carried the number 3. The railway was owned by James Joicey & Co Ltd, before passing into the ownership of the Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Ltd in 1924. Towards the end of its career, ‘Twizell’ worked at the nearby Handen Hold Colliery and lastly at Morrison Busty Colliery in Annfield Plain. It was withdrawn from use here in 1972.
Status: Operational, Marley Hill engine shed
Year Built: 1891
Works Number: 2730
Builder: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne
Wheel Arrangement: 0-6-0T
Weight in Working Order: 41 tons
Working Pressure: 160psi
Wheel Diameter: 4ft 0in
Cylinders: 17” x 24” (diameter x stroke)