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	Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0DE class 200DE built 1960, number 424841 "Roman" aka "Tonka" Above: Ruston 0-6-0DE "Roman" under repaint in the museum building at Caverswall Road, 17 July 2004 A modern and very common design of Ruston, built in June 1960 with a Paxman V6 engine and electrical transmission driving a single traction motor on the rear wheels. Number 424841 was built in 1960 and has detail differences from number 423657 built two years earlier, notably the design of the bonnet grills. It weighs about 30 tons. The early history of this locomotive was at the firm of Pilkington Brothers of Kirk Sandall, Doncaster, until about 1970 when it was purchased by GEC Ruston Paxman Diesels Ltd of Newton-le-Willows. It was then moved by rail to GEC Turbine Generators Ltd at Stafford on 28 November 1974. Known there as "Tonka" due to its yellow toy-like livery, it was allocated plant number 11044 and was used to shunt around the factory. Out of use from 1995 after rail traffic dwindled, "Tonka" was the last locomotive on the site. Purchased for preservation in working order by a Foxfield member, "Tonka" moved to the railway on 13 June 1997, and was in operation shortly after arrival still carrying its GEC yellow livery. Renamed "Roman", it is being equipped with vacuum brakes to augment its airbarke system, and has been repainted into a mid-grey livery Above: Ruston 0-6-0DE 424841 as "Tonka", shortly after arrival at Caverswall Road station, in July 1997 A previous locomotive from GEC at Stafford, English Electric 4wBE number EE788, was part of the Foxfield collection for about 15 years but has since moved on to the Ribble Steam Railway, though its runner wagon EE flat wagon No1 remains at Foxfield. Another surviving Ruston 200DE is 424839, under restoration for use on Northumbria Rail and named "Northumbria", see http://www.northumbria-rail.co.uk/loco_specs.php?numba=NRG1. Below: Makers logo on the cabside of Ruston 0-6-0DE 424841 "Roman", 3 April 2005

Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0DE class 200DE built 1960, number 424841 "Roman" aka "Tonka"

Above: Ruston 0-6-0DE "Roman" under repaint in the museum building at Caverswall Road, 17 July 2004

A modern and very common design of Ruston, built in June 1960 with a Paxman V6 engine and electrical transmission driving a single traction motor on the rear wheels. Number 424841 was built in 1960 and has detail differences from number 423657 built two years earlier, notably the design of the bonnet grills. It weighs about 30 tons.

The early history of this locomotive was at the firm of Pilkington Brothers of Kirk Sandall, Doncaster, until about 1970 when it was purchased by GEC Ruston Paxman Diesels Ltd of Newton-le-Willows. It was then moved by rail to GEC Turbine Generators Ltd at Stafford on 28 November 1974. Known there as "Tonka" due to its yellow toy-like livery, it was allocated plant number 11044 and was used to shunt around the factory. Out of use from 1995 after rail traffic dwindled, "Tonka" was the last locomotive on the site. Purchased for preservation in working order by a Foxfield member, "Tonka" moved to the railway on 13 June 1997, and was in operation shortly after arrival still carrying its GEC yellow livery. Renamed "Roman", it is being equipped with vacuum brakes to augment its airbarke system, and has been repainted into a mid-grey livery

Above: Ruston 0-6-0DE 424841 as "Tonka", shortly after arrival at Caverswall Road station, in July 1997

A previous locomotive from GEC at Stafford, English Electric 4wBE number EE788, was part of the Foxfield collection for about 15 years but has since moved on to the Ribble Steam Railway, though its runner wagon EE flat wagon No1 remains at Foxfield.

Another surviving Ruston 200DE is 424839, under restoration for use on Northumbria Rail and named "Northumbria", see http://www.northumbria-rail.co.uk/loco_specs.php?numba=NRG1.

Below: Makers logo on the cabside of Ruston 0-6-0DE 424841 "Roman", 3 April 2005