Statfold Barn Railway

The Statfold Barn Railway is a dual gauge railway of 2ft (610mm) and 2ft 6in (762mm) gauges, near Tamworth, Staffordshire [cite book |title=Annual Guide to Narrow Gauge and Miniature Railways in the British Isles and Ireland: 2008 |last=Little |first=Lawson |year=2008 |publisher=Narrow Gauge Railway Society] . It is privately owned by Mr Graham Lee, chairman of LH Group Services Ltd - which in 2005 bought what remained of the Hunslet Engine Company. The dual gauge line is approximately 1½ miles long with a "balloon loop" at one end. There is also a separate "loop line" consisting of 2ft gauge track only. Drivers of mixed-gauge trains must take care not to pass the point where this line diverges or derailment will occur.

The railway has an extensive workshop where locomotives are built and restored.

team locomotives

*1899 built 2ft gauge Krauss 0-4-2T. The railways present restoration project, currently undergoing restoration after a long period of undercover storage.
*Indonesian Orenstein & Koppel Mallet 0-4-4-0T No 5. Returned to traffic in March 2007 after rebuild and in service on passenger trains, Britain's only Mallet locomotive.
*1900 built Orenstein & Koppel 0-4-0WTT No 1. Returned to traffic in June 2006 and now used on passenger trains on open days.
*Hunslet 0-4-2ST Trangkil No 4. In regular service on the Statfold Barn Railway and has been loaned out to the Amerton Railway.
*Hunslet 0-4-0ST Statfold. A modern Hunslet Locomotive, built in 2005 to the original drawings for the 2-foot gauge Hunslet "Quarry" class locomotives as used in the North Wales slate quarries, many of which are now in preservation ["Statfold Barn Railway Guide & Stock List", Issue 2] . In regular service and is loaned out to other railways occasionally.
*1944 built Harrogate Gas Works Peckett 0-6-0ST No 2050. Purchased from the Bredgar and Wormshill Railway in Kent. In regular service on the railway.

References

External links

* [http://www.geoffspages.co.uk/raildiary/statfold/index.htm Report and photos of a visit to the railway]
* Videos of the railway on 2 June 2007 from YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKr39yx9vkQ part 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWCUqHcr0Us part 2]