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WD Austerity

20th February 2018. In the afternoon sun BR WD Austerity 0-6-0ST No.72 [BR No.75319] takes the Rowsley South to Matlock service after leaving Darley Dale on the Peak Rail heritage railway.

 

Built at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows in 1945 with a works number of 5309. She was sold to the NCB after the Second World War. Restored in 2013 in her NCB livery with No.72 which the National Coal Board had given her.

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Uploaded on August 16, 2022
Taken on February 20, 2018