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5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur" - stock code 8160

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5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
5 inch gauge 2-8-4T "Dholpur"
A 5 inch narrow gauge Hunslet 2-8-4T "Dholpur" - about the largest Hunslet you're likely to come across. The prototype was built for export to India as late as the 1950s, although you need only look at "Russell", built for the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways some fifty years earlier, to see where the design came from.

This one came in last year as part exchange against an even bigger locomotive (think twice as long, twice as heavy and twice as many cylinders...). Whilst the boiler was bought early on for the project, built by the estimable Morewood Boilers, the engine itself wasn't finished until nearly thirty years later - it was first steamed in 2014.

Very much a gentle giant, the large boiler makes steam freely, the engine runs well - there's some video of it here.

Now, if they could bring one of these back to Porthmadog...

gauge 5 inch
length/inches 68
width/inches 15
height/inches 20
weight/kg 180
injector(s) 2
boiler number 7863251
year built 1987
boiler maker Morewood Boilers
CE mark n/a - pre-2002
working pressure/psi 90
boiler type locomotive
boiler material copper
boiler construction silver soldered
hydraulic test valid to 13-Sep-22
steam test valid to 21-May-20
superheater(s) 4
superheater type flue tube
safety valve(s) 2
safety valve type spring
whistle yes