User blog:Joshua Monks/My Favorite Shunter

My Fravorat shunter is a Ruston & Hornsby 165DS shunter. It is number 327974, built in 1954 at a cost of £8,213 (£211,513.44 in 2017), for the British Sugar Corporation. She was used for shunting waggons and other freight rolling stock around there Bardney Works and later there King's Lynn works.

on the 7th February 1997 she was bought by Great Eastern Traction, Hardingham Station and was preserved. But on the 28th June 1997 she was moved to the Northampton Ironstone Railway Trust at Hunsbury Hill, Northampton. Finaly she was bought by thehelston Railway Diesel Group in 2007. She remains her to this day and is used for hauling a break van full of passingers over the 1 and 1/4 mile track.