Chasewater Railway Museum –
A locomotive nameplate
‘Tony’
Hawthorne Leslie, 3460-1921
Built in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Works No. 3460, ex works 31-3-1921.
Delivered new to U.A.Ritson & Sons, Preston Colliery, South Shields, Northumberland.
Standard gauge (4’ 8½”) 0-6-0 saddle tank with 2 outside cylinders, 16” diameter x 24” stroke. 3’ 8” wheels.
Sold 1927, via dealers Geo. Cohen, to T.A.Hawkins & Sons, Old Coppice Colliery, where it was named ‘Tony’
Sometime circa 1955-58 transferred by NCB to Chasetown and left there for Walsall Wood Colliery in February, 1959.
Scrapped May 1965.
The locomotive at Hawkins Colliery.
Whoops! ‘Tony’ – de-railed at Hawkins in the 1940s.
Chasewater Railway Museum 