Robert Stephenson and Hawthorne No 7063 Eustace Forth Steam Locomotive

by Gordon James

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Robert Stephenson and Hawthorne No 7063 Eustace Forth Steam Locomotive

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Gordon James

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Roberts, Stephenson and Hawthorne Ltd No. 7063 ‘Eustace Forth’ 0-4-0ST

On Thursday 23rd May operational 0-4-0 saddle tank ‘Eustace Forth’ arrived at the Northampton & Lamport Railway (NLR).

She is on loan from the 7063 Locomotive Group and will be staying until the end of 2019.

7063 was built in 1942 by Roberts, Stephenson and Hawthorne Ltd at their Forth Bank Works in Newcastle. She was built for working at Dunston Power Station in Gateshead.

She worked at Gateshead shunting coal waggons until saved for preservation by the Hexham Rolling Stock Group before being taken into the National Collection in 1978.

In early preservation she ran in CEGB green livery and acted as Percy in National Railway Museum Thomas the Tank Engine events.

‘Eustace’ was gifted to the 7063 Loco Group in 2014.

More recently (since the end of 2018, up until she came to the NLR) she has been used for steam heating duties at Pickering on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

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December 17th, 2019

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