Surviving Rail-Trucks

 
Code Meaning
P Petrol.
D Diesel.
(D) Diesel, originally petrol.
(PS) Preservation site
(IS) Industrial site.
OOU No longer working/capable of working, but basically complete.
DSM Partially or completely dismantled.

 
 
 
Serial No. Date Gauge Type Status Current Location

(last known)

873   60cm P   Decauville Spoorweg Museum, Harskamp, Netherlands
962 1928 2'0" P   L. Hodgkinson, Little Haywood, Staffordshire (PS)
1626 1928 2'0" P   Staffordshire Locomotives (PS) - built as a road-truck with bolt-on steel railway wheels.
3198 1930 2'0" (D)   Alford Valley Railway, Aberdeenshire (PS)
3742 1931 2'0" (D)   Midland Railway Centre, Butterley, Derbyshire (PS) - rebuilt by FMB Engineering 1993
3834 1931 2'0" P   John Stein, The Willow Tramway, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire (PS)
3916 1931 2'0" P   Twyford Waterworks (PS)
4088 1931 2'0" P   Abbey Pumping Museum, Leicestershire (PS)
4228 1931 2'0' P   Leighton Buzzard Railway, Bedfordshire (PS)
4404 1932 1'3" (D)   Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, Ravenglass, Cumbria (PS)
6299 1935 2'0" P   Devon Railway Centre, Tiverton, Devon (PS)
6502 1935 1'3" P   Windmill Animal Farm Miniature Railway, Burscough, Lancashire (PS)
7280 1936 1'3" -   Oakwood Adventure & Leisure Complex, Canaston Bridge, Pembrokeshire. - Frame only survives as the power unit main frame for a Severn-Lamb diesel locomotive built in 1973.
7954 1936 2'0" (D)   Ripon Light Railway , Ripon, North Yorkshire (PS)

8022

1936 2'0" (D)   Private Railway, Gloucester (PS)
8023 1936 2'0" (D)   Arigna Mines, Roscommon (PS)
9256 1937 2'0" (D)   Private Railway, Dorset (PS)
9993 1938 2'0" P   Foulbridge Canal Cruiser & Reception Centre & Museum, Lancashire (PS)
10180 1938 1'3" (D)   Paradise Railway, Hayle, Cornwall (PS)
10225 1938 2'0" P DSM Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, Skipton, North Yorkshire (PS)
10498 1938 1'3" (D)   Rhyl Miniature Railway Ltd, Denbighshire (PS)
10805 1939 2'0" P   West Lancashire Light Railway, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire (PS) - This is the only known Type RT to survive in original condition complete with JAP twin cylinder engine.
10994 1939 2'0" (D) DSM Private Railway, Derbyshire (PS)
11221 1939 2'0" (D)   Leighton Buzzard Railway, Bedfordshire (PS)
11410 1939 2'0" (D)   Private railway, Devon (PS)
14005 1940 2'0" (steam)   Tanat Valley Railway Oswestry (PS)
14006 1940 2'0" P   J. Woolmer, Woodford, Kettering, Northants (PS)
18557 1942 2'0" P   Private Railway, Dorset (PS)
20449 1942 2'0" (D)   Abbey Light Railway, Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire (PS) To Poppleton 2012 http://www.poppletonrailwaynursery.co.uk/railway.html
20886 1943 1'3" P   Windmill Animal Farm Miniature Railway, Burscough, Lancashire (PS)
26288 1944 2'0" P   Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, Wirksworth (PS)
26366 1944 1'3" (D)   Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Lincolnshire (PS)
28039 1945 2'0" (D)   Mickey Finn Railway, Poole Dorset (PS)
29890 1946 2'0" (D)   West Lancashire Light Railway, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire (PS)
30233 1946 2'0" (D)   I. Jolly, Flintshire (PS)
32801 1948 2'0" (D)   Yaxham Light Railway, near Dereham, Norfolk (PS)
33650 1949 2'0" P   Private Railway, Gloucester (PS)
33651 1949 2'0" (D)   Prison Service College, Newbold Revel, Warwickshire (PS)
33937 1949 2'0" P   Amberley Museum, Arundel, West Sussex (PS)
34025 1949 2'0" Re-gauged to 1ft 11 1/2" 1980 (D)   Devon Railway Centre, Tiverton, Devon (PS)
34521 1949 2'0" P   Amberley Museum, Arundel, West Sussex (PS)
34523 1949 2'0" (D)   North Gloucestershire Railway Co. Ltd. Toddington, Gloucestershire (PS)
34652 1949 2'6" P   B Lawson, Tring, Hertfordshire (PS)
34758 1949 2'0" (D)   Westonzoyland Pumping Sation, near Bridgwater, Somerset (PS)
35811 1950 1'3" P DSM

 

Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Lincolnshire (PS)
36743 1951 2'0" (D)   J. Woolmer, Woodford, Kettering, Northants (PS)
37170 1951 2'0" (D)   Leighton Buzzard Railway, Bedfordshire (PS)
37366 1951 2'0" (D)   Steeple Grange Light Railway, Wirksworth, Derbyshire (PS)
37658 1952 1'3" (D)   Markeaton Park Light Railway, Derby (PS)
37911 1952 2'0" (D)   Private Railway, Arlesey, Bedfordshire (PS)
38296 1952 2'0" (D)   B. Clarke, Bath, Somerset (PS)
39005 1952 2'0" (D)   Tanat Valley Railway Oswestry (PS)
39419 1953 2'0" (D)   Mill Meece Pumping Station Trust, Eccleshall, Staffordshire (PS)
40009 1954 1'3" -   Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, Ravenglass, Cumbria (PS) - Frame only survives as a wagon.
40011 1954 2'0" (D)   Yaxham Light Railway, near Dereham, Norfolk (PS)
40407 1954 2'0" (D)   Richmond Light Railway (PS)

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41545 1955 2'0" (D)   Evesham Vale Light Railway (PS)

(Formerly FFestiniog 'Sludge')

41803 1955 2'0" (D)   Private Railway, Gloucester (PS)
42319 1956 2'0" (D)   Somerset & Dorset Railway Museum Trust, Washford, Somerset (PS)
42494 1956 2'0" (D)   Twyford Waterworks (PS)
44052 1958 2'0" (D)   Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford, Greater London (PS)
50191 1957 2'0" (D)   Ripon Light Railway , Ripon, North Yorkshire (PS)
50888 1959 2'0" D   Moseley Railway Trust, Apedale (PS)
51651 1960 2'0" D OOU Joseph Metcalf Ltd, Irlam, Manchester (IS)
51721 1960 1'3" D   Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, Ravenglass, Cumbria (PS)
51917 1960 2'0" D DSM Private Railway, Dorset (PS)
51989 1960 1'3" D   Bure Valley Railway, Aylsham, Norfolk (PS)
52031 1960 2'0" D   Moseley Railway Trust, Apedale (PS)
52528 1961 2'0" D DSM Moseley Railway Trust, Apedale (PS)
52579 1961 1'3" D   John Tennant & P. Smith, Brecon (PS)
52610 1961 2'0" D   Private owner Derby (PS)
52726 1961 2'0" D   Chasewater Railway (PS)
52885 1962 2'0" D   Moseley Railway Trust, Apedale (PS)
52886 1962 2'0" D   Herefordshire Waterworks Museum Trust, Broomy Hill, Hereford (PS) On loan to Twyfords waterworks museum 18/2/2012
53162 1962 2'0" D   Tanfield Railway Preservation Society, Tyne & Wear (PS)
53225 1962 2'0" D   Private Railway, Reading (IS)
53541 1963 2'0" D   Fraserburgh Miniature Railway, Aberdeenshire (PS)
53726 1963 2'0" D   Midland Railway Centre, Butterley, Derbyshire (PS)
53976 1964 2'6" D   B Lawson, Tring, Hertfordshire (PS)
53977 1964 2'6" D   B Lawson, Tring, Hertfordshire (PS)
54181 1964 2'0" D   Painter Bros Ltd, Hereford, Herefordshire (IS) Sold 2011 to private buyer.
54183 1964 2'0" D OOU Midland Irish Peat Moss Ltd, Rathowen, West Meath (IS)
54684 1965 2'0" D   Yaxham Light Railway, near Dereham, Norfolk (PS)
54781 1965 2'0" D   Tanfield Railway Preservation Society, Tyne & Wear (PS)
55070 1966 2'0" D   B Lawson, Tring, Hertfordshire (PS)
55413 1967 2'0" D OOU H.M. Detention Centre, Freiston, Lincolnshire (IS)
55730 1968 2'0" D   P Smith Newbury (PS)
55870 1968 2'6" D   J. Hay, The Howard Collection, Bordon, Hampshire (PS)
56371 1970 2'0" D   Private Railway, Gloucester (PS)
Unknown     D   Private Railway, Presteigne, Herefordshire (PS)
  1971 2'0" D   T.Hall, North Ings Farm Museum, Lincolnshire (PS) - This loco was constructed by Clay Cross Co. from parts supplied by Listers in 1971.
picture 1973 1'6"     Steeple Grange Light Railway, Wirksworth, Derbyshire (PS) - This loco was constructed by Clay Cross Co. from parts supplied by Listers in 1973.