Darjeeling 19B at Statfold 2023

Only one of the world-famous blue Darjeeling Himalayan Railway ‘B’ Class 2ft gauge tank engines has ever "escaped" India. Built by Sharp Stewart in Glasgow in 1889, 19B is from the original batch of four of these locomotives and survives in operating condition today, thanks to its owner, the late Adrian Shooter who rescued it from America and had it overhauled into operating condition at Tyseley, Birmingham, in 2003. Although the locomotive is now approaching its ten-year boiler overhaul it is currently operational and still has its original Lowmoor Iron boiler - the oldest working locomotive boiler in the world.
It is now based at the Statfold Barn Railway near Tamworth, which will help her preservation with skilled team based there.
She is beautiful to watch and listen too, and I filmed her at the recent Rail, Road & Ale event, September 2023.

[@oldskool7313]

This railway is excellent and the footage is brilliant
Top job

[@mrowl-the-dsm1304]

Thats very kind, and the railway is well worth a visit.