Help to keep this historic loco in the UK. The unique DHR No.19 is coming up for sale. The Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust seeks to acquire it to take it through its expensive 10 year overhaul, to look after it and to operate it for the public enjoyment at 2ft gauge railways around Britain, so that everyone in its country of origin can see it, ride behind it and enjoy it. Built by Sharp Stewart in Glasgow in 1889, 19B is from the original batch of four of these locomotives and survives in operating condition today ...
(Permalink) Adrian Shooter Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust Sharp. Stewart and Company

(22 November 1948 - 13 December 2022) Adrian Shooter, a well-known rail industry leader, died on 13 December at the age of 74. He was ill with motor neurone disease that had increasingly affected his mobility and speech. Adrian was a keen photographer at Epsom College in the 1960s, where I first met him, and ...
(Permalink) Adrian Shooter Obituary

Shooter and his family joined colleagues for the unveiling at Marylebone station of a crowdfunded 9ft statue of him by Luke Perry. [Full article requires subscription. -RS]
(Permalink) Adrian Shooter Obituary