ʻ441ʼ
An 0-4-0 diesel-hydraulic locomotive (302hp, 8 cylinder Rolls Royce diesel engine, hydraulic transmission) built by Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co Ltdʼs Caledonia Works in Kilmarnock in 1959 and one of four such locos (no.440-443) supplied new to High Marnham Power Station in Nottinghamshire.
The other three locos were transferred to Meaford Power Station in Staffordshire by rail in 1969 and no.440 (b.1958) survives at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway in Yorkshire.
Apart from a short stint at Nechells Power Station in Birmingham in 1971-72 no.441 spent its entire pre-preservation life at High Marnham, being retained for maintenance work after the power stationʼs conversion to ʻmerry-go-roundʼ coal train operation in 1969.
The loco arrived at the Midland Railway-Butterley following the closure of the power station in 2003.
The image is mine, the words are by my son Andrew.
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