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National Coal Board's "Austerity" 0-6-0ST No 9 (RSH 7097/1943) at Eccles Colliery, Backworth - 10/06/1974.

The tank locomotive was built in 1943, to a Hunslet Engine Company design, by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn for the Ministry of Defence and entered service as WD75061. After a long career during which it also served with the Ministry of Fuel and Power and the NCB it was finally withdrawn in 1976 and was sold into preservation at the Strathspey Railway

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© 2025 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparency; photographed by David Young.

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Preserved Tasmanian Government Railways steam loco M4 is stabled at the Don River Railway on 9-11-1996.
By 2014, the loco was photographed in a darker shade of green

Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 'Austerity' number 49 departs from Marley Hill with a freight bound for Sunniside.

Tanfield 'Run it' end of season gala. October 19th 2024.

Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-4-0ST 'Sir Cecil A Cochrane' (Works No 7409 / 1948) in the Shed Yard at Marley Hill on the Tanfield Railway on 7th September 2012

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The crew of Hawarden have a quick chat before it heads off for the first train of the day at the Tanfield 'Legends of Industry' gala.

The purposeful looking Bagnall was visiting from the Foxfield Railway for the event.

21st June 2024.

RSH 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Sir Cecil A Cochrane' stands at the head of a line up of industrials ready for the day ahead at Tanfield.

The little tank engine worked at Redheugh Gas Works in Gateshead before moving a few miles south to Tanfield on preservation.

21st June 2024.

This locomotive was built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn in 1951. Originally it was intended to work at Bolton power station but after a couple of years on loan to Chadderton power station it moved to Agecroft colliery in 1954 where it became 'Agecroft No 3'.
In 1957 the power station passed into the ownership of the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), who made their three locomotives redundant when a conveyor belt was constructed to bring the coal supplies in directly from Agecroft colliery. This locomotive's last day of operation at Agecroft was in September 1981. The three locomotives were all built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn, with Works Nos. 7416, 7493 and 7681, and all three have been preserved.
7681 was initially preserved at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester but was disposed of from there in 2000 when it moved to Long Marston in Warwickshire. It later moved to Swindon where it spent many years on static display at the Museum of the Great Western Railway. The locomotive was then purchased by the Whitwell & Reepham Railway to be restored.
By August 2020 the boiler had been tested at the North Norfolk Railway and the locomotive was return to steam at the Whitwell & Reepham Railway by the end of the year. 7681 returned to service at the Whitwell & Reepham Railway in February 2022.

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NCB (Mecahnical Navvies Ltd) Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-6-0ST WD 71515 (RSH 7169/1944) at NCB Swalwell Disposal Point, Gateshead, County Durham - 01/09/71.

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Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn (RS & H) 0-4-0ST No 7042 (1941) 'Ajax' (RN Dockyard No 361) heads a short mixed freight past the Admiral's Offices in the Royal Navy Historic Chatham Dockyard on 1st July 2006 (Copyright Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved)

RSH built number 49 first saw serrvice for the Ministry of Defence in 1943. Following that a roving career on loan to the Ministry of Fuel and Power at Swannington opencast disposal point in Leicestershire and later Bennerley in Nottinghamshire.

In 1947 it moved again to the Bluebell coal disposal point on the Backworth system eventually coming under the ownership of the NCB. Working through to 1976 it was purchased by the Stephenson and Hawthorn Locomotive Trust and moved to Tanfield in 1980. A regular performer on the line it is seen here hauling a set of wagons away from Marley HIll during the line's end of season 'Run It' event.

14th October 2023.

NCB Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-6-0ST Austerity No 49 (Works No 5062 - August 1943) near Causey Arch on the Tanfield Railway with vintage mineral wagons working from East Tanfield to Marley Hill on 12th April 1997
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Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-4-0ST Sir Cecil A. Cochrane, out side the shed at Marley Hill, before the Run It Gala on 14th October 2023.

Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-6-0ST NCB No. 49 at Causey Arch station during the Run It Gala at The Tanfield Railway on 14th October 2023.

RSH Number 49 storms the bank out of East Tanfield, passing the site of Causey West Bank winding engine, with a morning train. The railway was holding a 'run it' event with an impressive 7 locomotives in steam.

14th October 2023.

Built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd in 1954 0-4-0ST 21 (7796) worked at the Stella South Power Station in Blaydon from 1954 to 1970. It arrived at Marley Hill on the Tanfield Railway during 1973 and was pictured in the Carriage Shed there on July 2nd 2023.

ELR No.1 enters Burrs Cutting with the 14:00 from Bury to Ramsbottom on the 14th April 1991. When the ELR first opened, like a lot of fledgling heritage railways, it relied heavily on ex-Industrials.

I believe this to be one of two crane tanks at the Tanfield Railway. The two locomotives (Works Nos 7006 & 7007) had been supplied by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn to William Doxford and Sons, Sunderland, in 1940. They were to a Hawthorn Leslie design dating from 1918.
The crane tanks were used in the ship yards for moving plates of steel.
No. 7006 "Roker" is on loan to the Beamish Museum.
This locomotive must be no. 7007 "Hendon".

Dating from 1943 and built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns of Newcastle fomer NCB 0-6-0ST 49 is pictured at the end of the line at East Tanfield prior to running round its train during the Tanfield Railway's first running day of 2023 on February 19th 2023.

RSH built 'Austerity' tank number 49 storms through Causey with an afternoon 'North Pole' Express Santa special working on the Tanfield Railway.

The cold weather of the previous week had relented slightly by this point with the temperatures finally getting into positive figures today - T shirt and shorts weather...

17th December 2022.