Hastings project moves to Statfold for completion
Jun 01, 2020
3 minutes
COMPILED BY GARY BOYD-HOPE
JOHN HUNT
HENRY NOON
Your reports and pictures are most welcome. Highly competitive rates are paid, especially if exclusive to The RM. MIKE Hart has transferred his former Sproxton ironstone quarry Hunslet 0-6-0ST Hastings (469/1888) from the Elsecar Heritage Railway to Statfold Engineering Ltd in order to get the locomotive's restoration back on track.
The part-restored Hastings first arrived at Elsecar in March 2018 shortly after the loco's acquisition by Mr Hart, and considerable progress has been made on reassembling the bottom end.
The chassis actually moved to Statfold in
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