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This page is dedicated to photographs which cannot yet be fully identified.

Please contact us if you have can resolve any of these mysteries.


 

Mystery Photograph 6
A van body in a field near Lydd in Kent 25th November 1989.  Can you identify it's origins?
 

 

Mystery Photograph 5
The is what remained of Hawthorn Leslie works number 3138 of 1915 when photographed in the scrapyard of Goodman Brothers at Wolverton in 1985. Do you know where she had worked?
 

 

Mystery Photograph 4
The remains of a narrow gauge railway in the California Country Park, near Wokingham, Berkshire, 23rd April 1989. 
Can you help with information about this line and it's locomotives?
 

 

Mystery Photograph 3
Unidentified industrial 0-4-0ST steam locomotive at Isefield.  It looks to be a standard product of Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock.  The smokebox number should help identify this loco's works number and where it operated.

 

Mystery Photograph 2
Unidentified industrial 0-6-0T steam locomotive at the North Downs Steam Railway 14th May 1989. It was rumoured to have been built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn and to have been used by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) at a power station in the Midlands (perhaps at Hams Hall or Meaford). 

 

Mystery Photograph 1
Narrow gauge battery-electric locomotives in the compound of a contractor at Royal Victoria Dock, London, 12th August 1989.  In the centre of the photograph are two locomotives, one is almost hidden behind the other.  These were said to have been manufactured in the USA.  The number of locomotive battery boxes on the right of the picture suggests there were further locos being used on this contract.

Feedback Regarding Photograph 1
Two of these locomotives are preserved and are located on the Steeple Grange Light Railway at Wirksworth in Derbyshire.  They are stated to have been built by Greensburg Machine Company (USA) to their "Scout" design.

 

     
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