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| HE8819 at the Statfold Barn Railway |
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| Builder: | Hunslet Engine Company |
| Motor: | Diesel |
| Wheel arrangement: | 4wDH |
HE8819 is an example of one of these shunters. It was built in 1979 and used at Nantgarw Colliery in Wales, running on the 914mm gauge network there. Now it is preserved at the Statfold Barn Railway and has been re-gauged to 610mm.
Another preserved example is HE8812, built in 1978 it also worked in Wales at Cefn Coed Colliery it has now been restored to operational condition at the museum built on the Cefn Coed site [1]. Also preserved is HE8816 which worked at Killoch Colliery in Scotland and is now preserved by the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group [2].
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| Another view of HE8819 |
[1] Industrial Railway Society, Industrial Loocomotives (18th Edition) (Industrial Railway Society, 2019) p. 293
[2] Ibid. p. 259