PUT up for sale earlier this year, Class 14 No. D9513 has found a new owner and left its former home at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. The ‘Teddy Bear’ has been bought by a director of the Wensleydale Railway and moved by road to the line on October 8.
No. D9513 presently carries its NCB blue livery and identity (No. 38) which it carried when based at Ashington Colliery. Like many of the Class 14 diesel hydraulics, it spent less than four years in BR service and joined the NCB fleet in 1968. Initially located at Crigglestone and then Allerton Bywater, it moved to the north east in 1974. After being declared surplus, it entered preservation at the Yorkshire Dales Railway (as the line at Embsay was then known) in 1987.
A stalwart performer on the line for many years, No. D9513 was stopped with a
