Sapper on run around

Todays blip was taken at Heywood watching the tank engine move around the run around rails to be ready for the return to Rawtenstall.
As Ruby said it looks like Percy from Thomas Tank, we went from Rawtenstall to Heywood and back with a delay in Ramsbottom (yes the name brings a smile to my face as well) due to signal failures - can you believe it.

Me and the grand daughters called over at Rawtenstall station which is on one end of the East Lancashire (Lancs)s Railway, the trian due on service had a problem with 2 broken springs so they enlisted a small tank engine.
"Sapper" is one of the 70 Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST classs that have been preserved from the original 485 built.
0-6-0ST means its a train with 6 drive wheels and is a saddle tank, big water tanks running down each side ready for the steam boiler use.

Sapper was built in 1944 for the War Department by the Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds. Works number 3153, the WD gave her the number 75103. She was renumbered 132 after the war.

After her military service, she was purchased by the National Coal Board for colliery work alongside many of her sisters. She has the distinction of being the last steam locomotive in industrial service in the UK, being taken out of use from Bold Colliery (St Helens) in 1984

Previously on the South Devon Railway. Sold in 2009 to unnamed private buyer. Refurbished by the Flour Mill during 2010-2011.