A BELGIAN-builtformerSpanishmine railway locomotive that became part of the mysterious‘Collection X’, owned by the late Peter Rampton, has been bought and returned to Brugelette in Belgium.
Société Métallurgique de Couillet 0-6-0T Works No. 1318 was built in 1900 as the third locomotive to work the Hullersas dewas built in Hainaut-Sambre, Belgium, to work the 6km line that ran between Olleros de Sabero and Las Quemadas Sotillos in north west Spain and serving the various coal mines along the route. Established on September 7, 1892, the railway was transporting an average of 1600 tonnes of coal per month by 1900.
