The Hunslet Engine Company is a

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-building company, founded in 1864 in

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, England. It manufactured

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s for over 100 years and currently manufactures

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shunting locomotives. The company is part of Ed Murray & Sons.

History

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The early years 1864–1901

The company was founded in 1864 at Jack Lane in Hunslet by

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, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell (son of Alexander Campbell, a Leeds engineer) as his works manager. The first engine was completed in 1865. It was ''Linden'', a

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delivered to Brassey and Ballard, a railway civil engineering contractor as were several of the firm's early customers. Other customers included collieries. This basic standard gauge shunting and short haul "industrial" engine was to be the main-stay of Hunslet production for many years. In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for £25,000 (payable in five instalments over two years) and the firm remained in the Campbell family ownership for many years. Between 1865 and 1870, the company had averaged fewer than ten locomotives a year but, in 1871, seventeen were built, rising over the next 30 years to a maximum of 34. HunsletDolbadarn

In 1870, Hunslet constructed its first narrow gauge engine ''Dinorwic'', a diminutive gauge for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at

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. This engine, later renamed ''Charlie'', was the first of 20 similar engines built for this quarry and did much to establish Hunslet as a major builder of quarry engines. The quarry was linked to

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by a gauge line for which Hunslet built three engines ''Dinorwic'', ''Padarn'' and ''Velinheli''. Much larger than the normal quarry type, gauge engines ''Charles'', ''Blanche'' and ''Linda'' were built between 1882 and 1893 for use on the

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"main line" between Bethesda and

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.Two of these still operate on the

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and ''Charles'' is preserved in the

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Many short wheelbase locomotives were supplied to the

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Company in the 1880s. The first Hunslet engine built for export was its No. 10, an shipped via Hull and

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. By 1902, Hunslet had supplied engines to over thirty countries, often opening up new markets. In Ireland, Hunslet supplied engines to several of the newly opened narrow gauge lines and also in 1887 built the three unorthodox engines for the

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system used by the Listowel Ballybunion Railway. From 1873 onwards, many Hunslet locomotives were exported to Australia for use on both main line and lesser lines.

1901–1939

In 1901, James Campbell was still in charge as proprietor and his four sons were all working for the company, including the eldest son Alexander III who had taken over as works manager on the death of his Uncle George in 1890. In 1902, the company was reorganised as a private limited company with the name Hunslet Engine Company Ltd. but was still a family business. Following the death of James Campbell in 1905, the chairmanship passed to Alexander III and brother Robert became works manager, while brother Will retained the role of secretary and traveller with a seat on the board. At about this time, Hunslet was building a series of s for the

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, design elements of which were included in the construction of the famous '' Russell'' a gauge engine built for the

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. Following family disagreements, both Will and the youngest brother Gordon left the company and a serious injury left Robert disabled and unable to continue as works manager. The post of works manager was advertised and Edgar Alcock, then assistant works manager at the Gorton Foundry of

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, was appointed in 1912. Alcock came to Hunslet at a time of change when the industry was being asked for far larger and more powerful locomotives than had ever been required in the past. This was true at Hunslet, which found its overseas customers asking for very large engines. One example was an order for two 86 ton s from the Antofagasta, Chile & Bolivia Railway. During the

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, overseas orders dried up. The company, like many others, found itself employing women on the shop floor and engaged in the manufacture of munitions. It continued to produce limited numbers of locomotives, significant examples being lightweight narrow gauge designs for the

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. After the First World War, Hunslet was once more able to attract overseas orders and it also received a series of repeat orders from the

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for 90

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"Jinty" shunting engines. During the 1930s, Hunslet built its largest locomotives, two engines, built for a special train-ferry loading job in China – they were at that date the largest and most powerful tank engines ever built. A year or so later, the same design formed the basis for an 0-8-0 tender engine for India. Many other "large-engine" orders were received in these inter-war years. Other independent British manufacturers failed to survive the depression of the 1920s and 30s and Hunslet acquired the patterns, rights and designs of other builders including

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1930–2000

John Alcock, who, following in his father's footsteps, became managing director of Hunslet in 1958, recalled his father telling him circa 1920, when he was still a schoolboy, that his main endeavour for the company would be in the application of the

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to railway locomotion. Throughout the 1930s, Hunslet worked on the perfecting of the

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During the

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, the company again served the country well in the manufacture of munitions, but it also built engines, both steam and diesel for the war effort. Noteworthy is its role in the production of the "Austerity" shunting locomotive. It was an

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revision of the 50550 shunter design, itself a development of the Hunslet 48150 shunter design, of which 16 had been built pre-war. Hunslet produced 149 Austerities during the hostilities, and sub-contracted construction of almost 200 more. A total of 485 Austerities were built by Hunslet and other builders between 1943 and 1964, of which over 70 examples have been preserved. Locomotive construction resumed after the war. Important in post-war production was the Hunslet flame-proof diesel engine for use in the coal mines, as well as further batches of Austerity shunters for the

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(NCB) and the

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, and rebuilding some older Austerities, work which continued into the early 1960s. The last three Austeriies were sold in 1970, one directly to preservation, one for scrap and one to the NCB. The last industrial steam engine built in Britain was built at Hunslet in 1971 for export to Trangkil sugar mill in

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, Indonesia. The "Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds" works was closed in 1995, the last order being a batch of narrow gauge diesel locomotives for tunnelling on the

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of the

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2000–present

The Hunslet Engine Co - Jack Lane - geograph

In 2004, the Hunslet Engine Company was acquired by the LH Group. Production was moved to

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while other operations remained in Leeds. In 2006, the company manufactured remote-controlled

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shunters for John M. Henderson & Co to be supplied to

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's coking plant in

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. In the same year, several orders for underground and mining diesel locomotives were completed. In 2007, Hunslet began developing a new family of locomotives ranging from shunters to vehicles weighing up to 100 tons. The first locomotive of the new class, the DH60C, a three-axle C diesel hydraulic shunting locomotive, was unveiled in July 2010. The company also operated a locomotive hire business (including a British Rail Class 08 shunter acquired in 2006), mainly of industrial shunting locomotives. In 2012, LH Group was sold to

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for US$48 million. The company owns the rights to the names and designs of a number of former British locomotive manufacturers including Andrew Barclay,

, North British Locomotive Company,

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and

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. It also maintains and supplies spare parts for those brands. In 2021, the business was purchased by Ed Murray & Sons.

The Hunslet Steam Co.

The Hunslet Steam Co. is part of the LH Group. The company is involved in new-build steam locomotives (including two Quarry Hunslet locomotives), boiler making and locomotive maintenance.

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Preserved locomotives

Preserved examples

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*No. 1 Brookes *No. 11 – Preserved and currently undergoing cosmetic restoration at the

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*No. 243 – Preserved and currently undergoing cosmetic restoration at the Fundación Camilo José Cela assignment Madrid Railway Museum (''Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles''),

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*No. 686 Lady Armaghdale – Preserved and on static display at

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*No. 1444 Preserved and running at

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, New Zealand *No. 1800 – Preserved and running on the

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*No. 1821 *No. 1873 Jessie – Preserved and running on the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway *No. 1982 Ring Haw – Preserved and running on the

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*No. 2705 Beatrice – Preserved and running on the

*No. 2868 B&W Engineering – *No. 3694 Whiston – preserved an in operational condition at the Foxfield Railway though on loan at end of March 2019 at the

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*No. 3715 Primrose No. 2 – Preserved and currently undergoing an overhaul at

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*Holly Bank No. 3 – Preserved and running on the

*Jack's Green – Preserved and currently stored at the

*No. 1589 Newstead – Preserved and undergoing overhaul at the

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*Robert Nelson No. 4 *No. 79 "Plum" – 16 inch , preserved on static display at the

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, Australia * No. 2705 – loco, preserved and currently running at the NSW Rail Museum, Thirlmere, Australia *No. 1168 – built in 1914; preserved and on static display at Fort San Andres Museum, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad' under the unofficial number "42"

United Kingdom

''Hunslet Engine Co'' locomotives (both steam and diesel) can be seen operating on

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across Britain including: *

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, West Sussex *

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, Staffordshire *

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, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire (

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diesels can be seen from the train.) * Avon Valley Railway, Bitton, Gloucestershire *

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, Gwynedd, North Wales *

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, Scotland * Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Quainton Road, Buckinghamshire *

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, Gwynedd, Mid-Wales *

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, Lydney, Gloucestershire *

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, North Yorkshire *

, Gwynedd, North Wales *

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, Hampshire *

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, Kent and East Sussex *

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, Cornwall *

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, Scotland *

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, Gwynedd, North Wales *

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, Denbighshire, North Wales *

, Hunslet (near Leeds), West Yorkshire *

, Wansford, Cambridgeshire *

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, Tilford, Surrey *

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, Darley Dale, Derbyshire *

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, Lancashire *

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, Cottesmore, Rutland *

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, Leicestershire – now closed *

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, Gwynedd, North Wales *

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, Alston, Cumbria and Northumberland * Strathspey Railway, Aviemore, Scotland *

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, Gwynedd, North Wales * Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, Mid-Wales *

West Lancashire Light Railway The West Lancashire Light Railway (WLLR) is a narrow gauge railway that operates at Hesketh Bank, situated between Preston and Southport in North West England. The distance between the stations on the railway is , though track extends eastward ...

, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire *

Woodhorn Narrow Gauge Railway Woodhorn Railway is a long railway on narrow-gauge track. The line runs from Woodhorn, Northumberland, England, to a restaurant in the car park of the QE2 lake. History of the railway In 1991, the Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archi ...

, Northumberland

Sri Lanka

* Sri Lanka Railways uses Hunslet diesel shunting locomotives in most railway yards.

New Zealand

*NZR/PWD Y class number 542 (Hunslet No. 1444) is preserved at the

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External links

Hunslet Engine Company website

The Quarry Hunslet web site

The Leeds Engine web site
{{Authority control Defunct companies based in Leeds Engineering companies of the United Kingdom Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom Manufacturing companies based in Leeds Manufacturing companies established in 1864 1864 establishments in England

History

The early years 1864–1901

1901–1939

1930–2000

2000–present

The Hunslet Steam Co.

Related companies

Hunslet-Barclay Ltd

Preserved locomotives

Preserved examples

United Kingdom

Sri Lanka

New Zealand

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