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5461 slumbers in the sector house at Valley Heights on 8 October 2006, in company with electric locomotive 4601.

5461 remained an operational exhibit at the NSWRTM during the 1970's and was a stalwart of the operational fleet in the early 1980’s.(The webmaster has fond memories of this engine plodding from Sydney Central to Thirlmere on the “Thirlmere Flyer” trains of the period.)With the return to service of faster and more powerful steam locomotives 5910 and 3642, 5461 was withdrawn from NSWRTM operational duties in 1985 and placed on static display at Thirlmere.
 
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Kitson 5469
0-6-0ST steam locomotive 'No. 44', "Conway"
Built 1933, at Leeds
Weight Somewhere about 38 to 40 tons
Length over buffers 29' 1" (approx 8.9 m)
Driving wheels 3' 6" diameter (approx 106 cm)
Cylinders 2 (inside), 16" diameter (approx 405 mm)
Previously worked Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks, Corby, Northamptonshire
Entered collection Purchased from a private owner in 2006 with support from the PRISM fund
Current status Recently returned from NRM "Locomotion" at Shildon, following some restoration. On display while awaiting further cosmetic restoration.
 
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Kitson Works No 5470 45 Colwyn 0-6-0ST.
This locomotive was built by Kitson and Co in 1933 to a Manning Wardle design which Kitson acquired when Manning Wardle closed in 1926. The design dates from around 1917 when Manning Wardle built six locomotives for Stewarts and Lloyds to work at the quarry at Corby.

When Kitson and Co stopped building locomotives in 1937 the designs passed to Robert Stephenson Hawthorn which built a further 5 locomotives. The Manning Wardle designs are now owned by the Hunslet-Barclay. The intellectual property rights for historic locomotive designs are held by the Hunslet Engine Company. In June 1973 the locomotive was used in an episode of Dad’s Army. In the summer of 2020 the locomotive was reported to be on static display at the Northampton & Lamport Railway.
 
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The Best Pacific 5471 (4-6-2)
Pennsylvania Railroad's K4s Pacific was probably one of the most successful American locomotives of all time. 425 of them were built between 1914 and 1927. Dimensionally, they were not the largest. However, operationally, they were very efficient and were used to haul most all of PRR's passenger trains. An indication of the great respect the Pennsy had for this locomotive is the fact that one of her type was selected as the railroad's monument to its steam power at the famous Horseshoe Curve. That K-4s was later moved to the Railroader's Memorial Museum in Altoona, PA.
 
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The Robert Dollar Co. steam engine #3 and Southern Pacific SD-9 Diesel #5472 at the Sunol Station in Sunol, California. The Robert Dollar was built in 1927 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and remained in service with the Robert Dollar Lumber Co. until 1959. 5472 was built by GM EMD in La Grange, Il and delivered to SP in 1956.
 
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Kitson & Co 5474 'Carnarvon'. Kitson & Co 0-6-0ST 'Carnarvon', Works No. 5474 of 1934 was briefly resident on the SVR. It arrived in 1969 and was used on engineers' trains, but left in 1970 following a dispute between the SVR and the owning group.
 
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