A return visit to the South Tynedale Railway.
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Barber arriving at Alston with the empty coaching stock. The signal box structure came from Ainderby Steeple, in Wensleydale.
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Barber, a former Harrogate Gas Works locomotive (T Green & Son 441/1908), has been through a height transformation since my previous visit in 2015.
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22 Newcastle, one of a pair of battery-electric locomotives, the other being Carlisle. Built by Clayton for Metronet Rail / Transport for London, and rebuilt at the Statfold Barn Railway.
All other locomotives, and most coaching stock, appeared to be sensibly stored in the extensive sheds.