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The Kettering Ironstone Railway was an industrial

Industrial railway

An industrial railway is a type of railway that is not available for public transportation and is used exclusively to serve a particular industrial, logistics or military site...

narrow gauge railway that served the ironstone quarries around Kettering

Kettering

Kettering is a market town in the Borough of Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. It is situated about from London. Kettering is mainly situated on the west side of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene which meets at Wellingborough...

Locomotives

Name	Builder	Type	Date	Works number	Notes
Kettering Furnaces No. 2	Black, Hawthorne Black, Hawthorn & Co Black, Hawthorn and Company was a steam locomotive manufacturer with a works situated in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK.-John Coulthard and Son:...	0-4-0ST	1879	501
Kettering Furnaces No. 3	Black, Hawthorne	0-4-0ST	1885		Preserved at the Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum The Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum is a museum of industrial railway equipment, located at Penrhyn Castle near Bangor in Wales.In the nineteenth century, Penrhyn Castle was the home of the Pennant family , owners of the Penrhyn slate quarry at Bethesda...
Kettering Furnaces No. 4	Black, Hawthorne	0-4-0ST	1887		Scrapped 1935
Kettering Furnaces No. 6	Manning Wardle Manning Wardle Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.- Precursor companies :The city of Leeds was one of the earliest centres of locomotive building; Matthew Murray built the first commercially successful steam locomotive, Salamanca, in Holbeck, Leeds,...	0-6-0ST	1889	1123	Rebuilt by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd was a locomotive builder with works in North East England.-History:The company was formed in September 1937 when Robert Stephenson and Company, which was based in Darlington took over the locomotive building department of Hawthorn Leslie and Company, based in... in 1949
Kettering Furnaces No. 7	Manning Wardle Manning Wardle Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.- Precursor companies :The city of Leeds was one of the earliest centres of locomotive building; Matthew Murray built the first commercially successful steam locomotive, Salamanca, in Holbeck, Leeds,...	0-6-0ST	1897	1370	Rebuilt by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns in 1950
Kettering Furnaces No. 8	Manning Wardle Manning Wardle Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.- Precursor companies :The city of Leeds was one of the earliest centres of locomotive building; Matthew Murray built the first commercially successful steam locomotive, Salamanca, in Holbeck, Leeds,...	0-6-0ST	1906	1675	Preserved by the Welland Valley Vintage Traction Club
	Sentinel Sentinel Waggon Works Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries, railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries and locomotives.-Alley & MacLellan, Sentinel Works, Jessie Street Glasgow:...	4wG+4wG	1926	6412	A unique articulated geared steam locomotive, heavily used in the 1930s, but scrapped in 1960

Locomotives

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