Harold
This modern 39hp Hunslet 4wDM (Builder's number 7195 of 1974) arrived on the railway on 20 March 1993. It had been delivered new to the Yorkshire Water Authority (formerly Bradford Corporation Sewage Department) at North Bierley and did little work there. On arrival at the railway, it was commissioned as Boston Lodge works shunter.
Harold was used briefly on WHR(C) Phase 1 construction in 1997, and spent part of 2003 at work on Phase 3. During this stay it hauled the first through (inspection) train from Waunfawr to Rhyd Ddu, on July 18th 2003.
The pantograph is from the Plasser And Theurer KMX95 CM Tamper and is non working!
Following a third visit to the WHR in early 2010, Harold was delivered to Minffordd facing Blaenau, having previously faced Caernarfon. Later in the year the engine was removed for overhaul.
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Industrial Railways & Locomotives of West Yorkshire - Andrew Smith & Roy Etherington
