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Drive a loco Membership Pictures Links Page Site Index History	Steam on the Railway Stock list Diesels on the Railway Stock list Rolling stock on the Railway Stations on the Railway Hayes Knoll shed	Andrew Barclay 0-6-0ST "Salmon" has been returned to steam, after passing its boiler inspection on Wednesday 5th Dec 07. Restoration of "Salmon" has been a seven-year job, ongoing since the locomotive arrived on the Railway in 2000. "Salmon", (Works No 2139) was delivered new in 1942 to Stanton Ironworks' Harlaxton Ironstone Quarries. After a move to Woolsthorpe in Leicestershire, it entered preservation on the North Yorks Moors Railway in 1980. Folling a move to Cottesmore in Rutland, it finnally moved to the Swindon & Cricklade.
		Slough Estates No 3  This Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST is the property of the Slough &: Windsor Railway Society, who have moved their standard-gauge preservation activities to the Swindon & Cricklade Railway. Much work on Slough Estates was done at Stoke Poges, and restoration was completed in the Hayes Knoll shed. Slough Estates was delivered new to the Slough Trading Co Ltd by Hudswell Clarke in October 1924. Picture shows Slough Estates on a passenger train.		br> Locomotives being actively restored. Three more industrial steam locomotives are being actively restored on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway. They include an 0-6-0ST from Andrew Barclay: Builder's Nos 2138, Swordfish, delivered new in 1942. The other two are Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T No 1857 of 1942 and Hunslet 0-6-0ST No 2413 Gunby of 1941. Depending on the nature of the work, these may seen in the Hayes Knoll shed or in various places around the Railway!
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