Английская Википедия:DHR B Class 778

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Adrian Shooter (driver, right) with Jeremy Davey (fireman, left) onboard locomotive No.19 at Beeches Light Railway in 2019.
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DHR19 in the station at Leighton Buzzard.

DHR 778 (originally number 19) is a narrow-gauge steam locomotive, that was built in 1889 for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. It is preserved in the United Kingdom, and is the only DHR locomotive outside of India. The locomotive is notable for having the oldest locomotive boiler still in use anywhere in the world.[1]

History

DHR 778 is a Шаблон:Whyte DHR B Class, a design built between 1889 and 1927. A total of 34 were built. By 2005 only 12 remained on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and in use (or under repair). The Шаблон:Nowrap locomotives were designed by Sharp Stewart & Co. of Glasgow and built by them, their successors North British Locomotive Company (NBL, Glasgow), and three each by Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW, Philadelphia, USA), and the DHR works at Tindharia.

Number 778 (originally No.19) was built in 1889 by Sharp Stewart & Co at the Atlas Works in Glasgow. It is the only DHR locomotive that has been taken out of India. After many years out of use at the Hesston Steam Museum, it was sold to enthusiast Adrian Shooter in the United Kingdom and restored to working order. It was based on Beeches Light Railway, a private railway in Oxfordshire, and has also run on the Ffestiniog Railway, the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, the Launceston Steam Railway and the South Tynedale Railway.[2] 778 is the only B class with a tender.Шаблон:Citation needed.

Locomotive Шаблон:Nowrap remained based at the Beeches Light Railway until the death of Adrian Shooter in December 2022. On 21 June 2023 the locomotive was purchased at auction for £250,000 by The Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust (DTLT), with supporters raising the required money three months beforehand. Following the sale, the locomotive and its two matching carriages were relocated by the Trust to the Statfold Barn Railway near Tamworth, Staffordshire.

Special events

In mid-2011, for the 40th anniversary of preservation of the Froissy Dompierre Light Railway in France, three Britain-based locomotives visited, including locomotive 778.[3]

In 2013, locomotive 778 ran as a part of Indian Extravaganza Fest in Bedfordshire in East England, [4] and in 2014 it was the main attraction at the South Tynedale Railway's Indian Summer Event[5]

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