RSH 8368 "Horsa"
BAGNALL No 2 (works No WB3213 RSH 8368 of 1962) This was built to a Bagnall design but at the Darlington works of Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd, after both firms were taken over by English Electric. It went new to the CEGB power station at Richborough in Kent and was named Horsa. It later went to Bedford power station before being purchased for the Nene Valley Railway at Peterborough. At the Nene Valley it starred in the James Bond film “Octopussey”. Purchased by GET in the early 1990s it went to County School station to haul the first passenger trains. It has a Dorman 6QA 262bhp engine and Twin Disc Hydraulic transmission. It is currently having a transmission overhaul.
