STATFOLD Narrow Gauge Museum Trust’s (SNGMT) 3ft gauge Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0ST 573/1900 Handyman was moved to ‘Workshop X’ in north Derbyshire on April 12.
The boiler, lifted at Statfold in advance of the move, was delivered with the frames, motion and valve gear, while the cab and saddle tank have been sent to a separate location for grit blasting.
Handyman was originally built for the Burton Ironstone Company in Northamptonshire and its working life ended in 1963 at Scaldwell Quarry. It entered preservation under private ownership but was never fully restored.
Acquired by the National Railway Museum in 2008 but still not having been restored, custodianship was offered to interested organisations in 2020. It was permanently transferred to SNGMT the following year (RM, July 2021) and displayed, in semi-dismantled condition, in the Grain store museum since the end of May 2021.