Ellesmere

Description

Industrial locomotive, with the name Ellesmere, built by Hawthorns and Co. of Leith in 1861 for a colliery at Leigh, Lancashire, where it worked until 1957

Museum reference

T.1971.23

Collection

Transport

Object name

Locomotive, industrial

Production information

Hawthorns and Co.
Leith, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

1861

Materials

Metal

Associations

Leigh, Lancashire, England, Northern Europe

References

Hayes, G. Industrial Steam Locomotives. Aylesbury: Shire Album 235. 1989

On display

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