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The Great Bush Railway is a private 2' gauge railway running round the edge of Tinker's Park, Hadlow Down

Hadlow Down

Hadlow Down is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is located on the A272 road three miles north-east of Heathfield. The parish is within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...

, Sussex

Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...

. The railway is operated by the Claude Jessett Trust Company.

Locomotives

Number	Name	Builder	Type	Date	Works number	Notes
1	Animal	Motor Rail Motor Rail Motor Rail was a British locomotive-building company, based in Bedford. Formed in 1911 as The Motor Rail & Tramcar Co Ltd, they built petrol and diesel engined locomotives, mainly narrow gauge. During World War I over 900 locos were supplied for use on temporary military supply railways...	4wPM	1931		Purchased from the Ludlay Brick and Tile Company
2	Sezela No. 2	Avonside Avonside Engine Company The Avonside Engine Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Avon Street, St. Philip's, Bristol, England between 1864 and 1934. However the business originated with an earlier enterprise Henry Stothert and Company.-Origins:...	0-4-0T	1915	1720
3	Goat	Lister	4wDM	1936	8022	Purchased from the Crowborough Brickworks, sold to the Surrey Light Railway, 1977
4	Mild	Motor Rail Motor Rail Motor Rail was a British locomotive-building company, based in Bedford. Formed in 1911 as The Motor Rail & Tramcar Co Ltd, they built petrol and diesel engined locomotives, mainly narrow gauge. During World War I over 900 locos were supplied for use on temporary military supply railways...	4wDM	1941	8687	Purchased from the Crowborough Brickworks
5	Alpha	Ruston & Hornsby Ruston (engine builder) Ruston & Hornsby, later known as Ruston, was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840. The company is best known as a manufacturer of narrow and standard gauge diesel locomotives and also of steam shovels. Other products included cars, steam...	4wDM	1937	183744	Purchased from the APCM Rodmell Works
6	Sezela No. 6	Avonside Avonside Engine Company The Avonside Engine Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Avon Street, St. Philip's, Bristol, England between 1864 and 1934. However the business originated with an earlier enterprise Henry Stothert and Company.-Origins:...	0-4-0T	1928	1923
7	Fido	Motor Rail Motor Rail Motor Rail was a British locomotive-building company, based in Bedford. Formed in 1911 as The Motor Rail & Tramcar Co Ltd, they built petrol and diesel engined locomotives, mainly narrow gauge. During World War I over 900 locos were supplied for use on temporary military supply railways...	4wPM	1931	5297	Purchased from the Surrey Light Railway, 1976; sold to Ian Jolly, 1977
8	Tuesday	Hibberd Hibberd Hibberd may refer to:people:Dominic Hibberd, English biographerGeorge Hibberd , English cricketerJack Hibberd , Australian playwrightJames Hibberd , English cricketer*Julian Hibberd, British plant scientist...	4wDM	1941	2586	Purchased from the Surrey Light Railway, 1976; sold to the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, a gauge railway in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, is laid on the trackbed of the former Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch of the Caledonian Railway which led off the main line between and Glasgow at Elvanfoot.- Overview :... , 1988
9	Smifsagit	Hunslet Hudson Hunslet Engine Company The Hunslet Engine Company is a British locomotive-building company founded in 1864 at Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England by John Towlerton Leather, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell as his Works Manager.In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for...	4wDM	1944	3109	Purchased from the Surrey Light Railway, 1976; sold to Alan Keef Alan Keef Alan Keef Ltd is a British narrow gauge railway engineer which manufactures, overhauls and deals in narrow gauge locomotives, rolling stock and associated equipment.... , 1979
10	Cape	Orenstein & Koppel	4wDM	1935	5925	Purchased from Cape Universal Products, 1976; converted from gauge; sold to Amberley Chalk Pits Museum, 1978
14	Albany	Ruston & Hornsby Ruston (engine builder) Ruston & Hornsby, later known as Ruston, was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840. The company is best known as a manufacturer of narrow and standard gauge diesel locomotives and also of steam shovels. Other products included cars, steam...	4wDM	1941	213840	Purchased from the gauge Royal Arsenal Railway Royal Arsenal Railway The Royal Arsenal Railway was a private military railway. It ran inside the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, south east London.The earliest parts of this railway system proper were constructed to standard gauge from 1859 onwards as a to replace an ad hoc arrangement of individual plateways... , converted to gauge in 1973
22	Lama	BEV	4wBE	1953	5033	Purchased from the Crowborough Brickworks
24	Titch	BEV	0-4-0BE	1972	M7535	Purchased from the Crowborough Brickworks
3	SAO DOMINGOS	Orenstein & Koppel	0-6-0WT	1929	11784

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