Image 2. No.53 & 2104, stabled, Pitsford yard
2. No.53 & 2104, stabled, Pitsford yard
2. No.53 & 2104, stabled, Pitsford yard Two of the Northampton and Lamport Railways assets sit idle in the yard just adjacent to the station undergoing attention. Firstly is №53 'Sir Alfred Wood', an 0-6-0 Ruston 165DS class diesel locomotive built in 1953. It initially saw work at various industrial location including for the British Sugar Corporation. It was sold into preservation in 1991 going to the Nene Valley Railway before then moving to the Northampton Ironstone Railway. Finally, it moved to the NLR where it has been undergoing a protracted restoration even since! In front of the shunter is the steam mainstay of the NLR in the form of Peckett R4 Class 0-4-0ST № 2104. This locomotive has been on the railway from the very beginnings before it even began running trains back in 1996! Keywords: No.53 & 2104 stabled Pitsford yard Sir Alfred Wood
2. No.53 & 2104, stabled, Pitsford yard Two of the Northampton and Lamport Railways assets sit idle in the yard just adjacent to the station undergoing attention. Firstly is №53 'Sir Alfred Wood', an 0-6-0 Ruston 165DS class diesel locomotive built in 1953. It initially saw work at various industrial location including for the British Sugar Corporation. It was sold into preservation in 1991 going to the Nene Valley Railway before then moving to the Northampton Ironstone Railway. Finally, it moved to the NLR where it has been undergoing a protracted restoration even since! In front of the shunter is the steam mainstay of the NLR in the form of Peckett R4 Class 0-4-0ST № 2104. This locomotive has been on the railway from the very beginnings before it even began running trains back in 1996! Keywords: No.53 & 2104 stabled Pitsford yard Sir Alfred Wood


Two of the Northampton and Lamport Railways assets sit idle

in the yard just adjacent to the station undergoing attention. Firstly is №53 'Sir Alfred Wood', an 0-6-0 Ruston 165DS class diesel locomotive built in 1953. It initially saw work at various industrial location including for the British Sugar Corporation. It was sold into preservation in 1991 going to the Nene Valley Railway before then moving to the Northampton Ironstone Railway. Finally, it moved to the NLR where it has been undergoing a protracted restoration even since! In front of the shunter is the steam mainstay of the NLR in the form of Peckett R4 Class 0-4-0ST № 2104. This locomotive has been on the railway from the very beginnings before it even began running trains back in 1996!