Today we have taken delivery of Hawthorn Leslie No.2918, 'Pony'.
'Pony' was previously stored at Peak Rail in Derbyshire and has been purchased by a member of the NTSRA for restoration and use on the NTSR.
The locomotive has local origins, being built in Newcastle in 1912 for Blyth Harbour Commission, where it was designated 'BCC No.2'. It entered preservation at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway (where it gained the name 'Pony') and last steamed at the Chatham Dockyard Railway in 2004.
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