441934/1960 - Rowntree Macintosh No. 3 - Lined Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_BR Blue safety catches

safety catches

Fledgling preservation schemes were face with having to purchase either industrial or scrapyard condition locomotives so the opportunity to purchase a working mainline locomotive was not passed up

on the front

being used across the Eastern

441934/1960 - Rowntree Macintosh No. 3 - Lined Green - DCC Sound Fitted Livery_BR Blue safety catchesRuston 441934 was built new for Rowntree & Co. Ltd of York, being delivered on 14 April 1960 to join R&H 421419 1958 and 432479 1959 in the confectionery companys fleet of locomotives as No. 3. In 1979, the York factory bought a new 0 6 0 locomotive and No. 3 was transferred to Rowntrees Fawdon factory in Newcastle. Rail services at Fawdon came to a halt on 30 January 1987, with No. 3 being handed over to the North York Moors Railway for preservation