This locomotive was built in 1916 by Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co, a well known locomotive manufacturers based in Kilmarnock.
It was used at a munitions factory near Paisley in the First World War to move people and goods around the huge site.
After the War, it was purchased by the Lothian Coal Company and brought to the Lady Victoria Colliery, where its main job was to transport coal from Lingerwood and Easthouses pits to the Lady Victoria Colliery for processing. These pits were known as the Newbattle Collieries and for this reason, the locomotive had ‘Newbattle’ painted on its side.
The locomotive continued to work at Newbattle for the rest of its life and was taken out of service in 1970 after 54 years of hard work.
It then got donated to the Scottish Railway Preservation Society and it was only at this stage that it was given its current name. Originally named as ‘Number 1458’ and then ‘N.C.B. No 3’ in 1947, it was finally named ‘Lady Victoria’, in honour of where it had worked for so many years.
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