Steam Locomotives

All scheduled passenger trains on the railway are likely to be steam hauled, either by resident or visiting locomotives.
 

• "Axe"
• "Sid"

Diesel Locomotives

We also have a diesel locomotive on the railway, which can be used on passenger trains in the event of steam locomotive failure. It is also used for shunting and engineering work.
 

• "Heddon Hall"

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No Longer at the L&B

 

‘Holwell Castle’  Motor Rail 60S No. 11177 1961
Diesel Mechanical 60 HP.

Built July 1961 for Reed & Mallik (Plant) Ltd. The diesel’s last industrial use was by on their Fechlin Aqueduct contract, a hydro scheme near Whitebridge, south of Loch Ness. In 1975 the loco was sold to Alan Keef, Oxford, who then sold it on to the Llanberis Lake Railway in October 1975.

On the LLR it became number 14 in their fleet and was named Rhydychen, this being welsh for Oxford. The LLR sold the loco on to Brecon Mountain Railway in April 1981, from whom the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust purchased the loco in a dismantled state in the late 1990’s.

The dismantled loco spent some time stored at Shirwell, North Devon before being moved to the Talyllyn Railway Tywyn, Mid Wales where it was worked on by Talyllyn Railway members before returning to North Devon in 2004 for completion at the company’s workshops in Bratton Fleming.

This locomotive entered service in our second operating season in 2005. 

After developing a mechanical fault which was judged beyond economic repair it left the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway in April 2008 and is now resident on the Golden Valley Railway at Butterley where we are sure it will have a good life.

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According to the Moseley Railway Trust’s Simplex page here:

The  60S was intended as the replacement to the 32/42 H.P. type and was originally known as the 50 H.P. before the introduction of the new numbering scheme. The frame was of all-welded construction and the minimum weight available was 4-Tons although extra ballast weights could be bolted to the frame ends to give weights up to 7-Tons. The 60S retained the traditional transverse engine and Dixon-Abbott gearbox arrangement of previous locos but the box was a three-speed version which gave speeds from 2 to 12 M.P.H. This enabled loads of up to 152-Tons to be hauled on the level (rolling resistance 15 lbs/Ton) in first gear according to a 1950s MR brochure. The type was initially fitted with the Dorman 3LA engine which was later replaced by the 3LB of 60 B.H.P. and then the 3LD of 72 B.H.P., all of these engines being water-cooled.