Avonside Engine Co Works No 1919 Cranford 0-6-0ST

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This locomotive was built by Avonside Engine Company in 1924 for the Staveley Coal and Iron Company.

It spent the last few years of its working life at Cranford ironstone quarry in Northamptonshire.

In Preservation Cranford was based for a number of years on the Foxfield Railway but the restoration of the locomotive was completed in April 2016 by the Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society at Scunthorpe steelworks where it had moved in 2010.

It remains based at what is now the Tata Steelworks at Scunthorpe where the Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society are based.

As of the summer of 2020 the locomotive was operational.

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1919 at Appleby-Frodingham Works – January 2014
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1919 at Appleby-Frodingham Works – August 2014
1919 hauling North Staffordordshire Railway No 2 at Caverswall Road on the Foxfield Railway – July 2016
1919 on the Foxfield Railway – July 2016
1919 at the Appleby Frodingham Railway – September 2016
Avonside 1919 at Scunthorpe Steelworks - January 2017.jpg
1919 at Scunthorpe Steelworks – January 2017
1919 at the Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society – September 2018

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