HUNSLET-BUILT 0-4-0 diesel shunter works No. 2641, formerly resident at Eureka – The National Children’s Museum in Halifax. has been moved to Ribble Steam Railway (RSR) in Preston.
Supplied new to the War Department in 1941 (working at the Royal Naval Armament Depot at Crombie in Fife), it moved to Bargate Motor Spares at Linthwaite near Huddersfield in 1983, and arrived at Eureka nine years later, where it was placed alongside a Mk. 2 carriage.
Having previously approached RSR and other heritage railways with a view to finding them anew home, a pair of RSR volunteers undertook the task of removing them from the site. The close proximity of the railway line prevented the use of a crane and therefore the locomotive was jacked sideways onto the ramp of a low-loader for removal.