DEALS have been announced for two repatriated British-built narrow-gauge locomotives – including one recovered from a swamp – to be overhauled and returned to steam for the first time in the heritage era.
Quarry Hunslet 0-4-0ST No. 704 of 1899 Nesta is to be overhauled following its acquisition by the privately-owned 2ft gauge Richmond Light Railway at Headcorn in Kent.
, one of Hunslet’s four Penrhyn Small Quarry class locomotives, was withdrawn from service at the Penrhyn Quarry in NorthWales in the 1960s. However, a 1965 for export. ended up at a railway/ mining museum in Puerto Rico, where the weather was allowed to take its toll.
