R & W Hawthorn   Works No 2009   No 3 Enterprise 0-4-0ST

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This locomotive was built by R & W Hawthorn in 1884 and delivered new to Tredegar Wharf Co in Newport. Here it was named Enterprise.

Around 1937 the locomotive was sold to the dealers A R Adams & Son of Newport. They rebuilt the locomotive and sold it to RY Pickering & Co Ltd who were a wagon builder based in Wishaw in Lanarkshire.

At Pickering the locomotive became No 3.

In 1953 the locomotive was registered with the Railway Executive so that it could operate over BR tracks in the exchange sidings.

The locomotive was moved to Marley Hill on the Tanfield Railway in July 1979.

It remains atIn June 2024 the sole surviving locomotive built by R&W Hawthorn(predecessor of Hawthorn Leslie & Co) was moved  to Brookside Engineering in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire for overhaul.

2009 at Wishaw – December 1975
2009 in front RSH 7944 at Marley on the Tanfield Railway – Circa 2000
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2009 at the Tanfield Railway – April 2012
R 7 H Hawthorn & co 2009 at the Tanfield railway - September 2014.jpg
2009 at the Tanfield railway – September 2014
2009 at the Tanfield Railway – August 2018
2009 at the Tanfield Railway – August 2018
009 at the Tanfield Railway – August 2022


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