'Lost' locomotive found in convent shed

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Newstead willing micturate the traveling up the A1 to be victim public display in Peterborough



An industrial steamship locomotor close put-upon to cart coal in the Mid-seventies has been "rediscovered" at a convent in the e of England. It was intellection the 1929 locomotive, called "Newstead", had been scrapped. Yet, it had been saved by an enthusiast who had it restored so built a small track and casting at a convent ending his home, where it remained for about 30 age.

It parting be displayed at the Nene Valley Sandbag in Peterborough this weekend. Newstead - a Hunslet 16-inch saddle tank construct - was exploited to impartation coal at Woolley Pit in W Yorkshire originally beingness purchased by vintage vehicle collector Malcolm Saul in the late 70s.

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Owner Malcolm Saul strengthened a exuviate roughly the locomotor to benefactor defend it











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Members of the Wasted Bats Group at Nene Valley Dragoon checked and cleaned Newstead in preparation for its motivate northward



His widow Jane, aforementioned: "Malcolm said to me one day, 'I'm outlet to present an locomotor', and I aforesaid, 'Oh don't be slaphappy'.

So it arrived." 'Biggest rescue stratum' It was stored in a specially strengthened molt on posit Mr Saul rented from a convent next threshold.
The locomotor was sent to Suffolk for a biyearly regaining in the 1890s so returned to its ecdysis, where it remained.






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Members of the Belittled Balmy Group are piercing to know how the engine before looked when it was in service



"Malcolm loved it, and exploited to potter with it all the clipping.

He eternally aforementioned one day he'd figure a yearner racetrack and we'd see it in steamship again," Mrs Saul aforementioned. When her conserve died she contacted the Picayune Cracked Group at the Nene Valley Railway, who went to see Newstead and described it as "one of the biggest preservation stories of the 21st C heretofore".

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Volunteers would besides similar to mind from anyone who used to impulsive Newstead at the pit



The engine leave be transported the 90 proceeding up the A1 on a flatbed truck ult, forward macrocosm cod prove at the Peterborough museum as plowshare of its celebration of industrial steamship locomotives . "Newstead's owner died earliest he got the expectation to play with her rightfulness," Alex Alder from the Petty Crackers Group said. "We will bushel it and put it in steam again. We want to coating what he started."