SBR No. 5
Submitted by pete on 27th September 2011
Taken on 17 August 2011
Built for use on the sugar cane plantation of Natal Estates in South Africa with a very distinctive spark arresting chimney, returned to the UK in 1978 to run on the Alford valley in Scotland then the Green Dragon Rly
in the Kielder Forest, then to Statfold and in 2010
it steamed again after complete restoration.
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Pete - Great photo, nice little 'moke' Is she an 0 - 4 - 2T ? Do you know her build heritage? There were hundreds of these little sugar cane or pineapple plantation railways around the World. It is great that people like SBT are restoring the locos from them. There are quite a few ex-sugar cane locos around in Australia, some even in peoples back gardens! Very few have been restored. Some time ago I posted a couple of photos of one in the Don River Railway yard near Devonport in Tasmania. Keep 'em coming, my regards to all. Phil H. Oz.
Phil, Yes she is an 0-4-2T ,2 foot gauge, and built in 1912
by John Fowler of Leeds as works number 13335 ,and that is all the Statfold guide says about her. Regards to you,
Pete, North Wales.