On delivery, a short spur was laid off from the loco shed to allow the hi-ab lorry to offload straight onto the track. At this time there was only a few yards of track to the front of the shed. Even after all the time in the open, there was still charge in the battery and the loco moved off under its own power.

After a couple of trips one weekend in August the loco is parked in the siding next to the shed. A basic farm jack tends to be carried on top of the battery box in case of the occasional derailment.

One of one the many trips from the stockpile of sleepers to the end of the line, which allowed further sessions of tracklaying.

No.12 seen on a short temporary track at Roger Craven's yard. Shortly after this date it was taken inside to to have the wheels dropped and exchanged with one of the 600mm locos.

After numerous attempts at getting the loco to turn over it finally fired up successfully in June 2008. The loco is seen here turning over for the first time outside the loco shed. After this, the loco was rewired and the engine cover replaced, and was in use a month later.

By August the loco had aquired a replacement Moës works plate. The lights still needed replacing and rewiring, which has now been completed, but the loco will remain in near original condition, while the second Moës is fully restored.

With the tarpaulin off, the loco is sitting on the gravel in the driveway where it had been since delivery.

Once the loco had been turned round and jacked up, it had the engine cover removed ready to be pushed into the garage.

Temporary tracks were built under the loco and it was moved the few feet into the garage, where restoration work was able to be completed.

The front of the loco has been finished with wasp warning strips of Craftmaster Truck Yellow and black, with a new cut-out for the grille.

No.10 Seen here outside the garage workshops.

The loco had been a reliable performer, with the Deutz engine always starting on the glow plugs. After several years of good service, this loco left the line on the 24th November 2017 for it's new home in Yorkshire.

On the first run up the line, a certain amount of clearance was needed to the over hanging trees to allow the loco to pass.

The loco had been built with a full height cab to allow driving the loco standing up. The total height of the loco is 8ft.

Standing next to the loco shed the rather rough and ready fixing of the exhaust can be seen. The brackets on the side of the cab were ground off, and the silencer repositioned more neatly infront of the cab. The loco left site on the 9th January 2011 for it's new home on the Leemspoor Narrow Gauge Museum in the Netherlands.

The loco arrived on a self drive trailer from Holland and was unloaded directly onto the railway with no problems. The Alan Keef loco left on the return trip and was more of a challenge to load.

In October 2011 the loco is seen outside just prior to moving into the workshop to sort out several issues, primarily a faulty fuel pump. The pump was eventually removed and returned to Leemspoor to correct the issue which was returned in due course.

The engine was reunited with the loco waiting for the pump. In theory it just required new drive chains and flexible gearbox connector to allow this loco to be put back into use.

The decision was finally made to take the loco apart and completely strip off the many layers of poorly applied old paint and fully repaint the loco. It then took until Feb 2014 to get to the stage above, including sorting the pump out, fabricating a flexible connector for the gearbox, new drive chains, refitting the brakes, and finally being able to turn it over.

On the 23rd of February it finally rolled out of the workshops, ready for work. Although only 1.5 tonnes, it is surprising how well it can cope with the gradients (with a little sand on the rails!).

The Faryman engine in the Spoorijzer is easy to start in the warm weather, just taking 1-2 turns with the starting handle to fire it up.

Since moving to a location near Cambridge in 2004, Jane had been resting in a barn mostly undercover for approx 8 years. The original plans of the owner for the loco never coming to fruition.

In 2012 agreement was finally reached to purchase the loco and in the September the loco was pulled out of the barn by a Loadall prior to loading up for transport back to the Springfield Agricultural Railway.

Jane was gently moved to the waiting transport by the loadall and then secured in place for the journey.

In places there seemed to be more rust than metal, and various items had to be obtained, such as fuel tank, drive chains, spring buffers, radiator parts, and more. Most of the pipework and parts of the bodywork needed fabricating from new because the original parts were beyond salvaging. By August 2014 the restoration had only reached the stage shown above.

Finally by June 2015 the loco was ready to be turned over for the first time, and was rolled out of the workshop for a few photographs. After being pushed up and down the track a few times, the Dorman engine finally fired up, and was driven for the first time since being used on the Ffestiniog Railway since approx 1984.

Once working, it highlighted another raft of snagging jobs to deal with, not least for the original oil filter, which with oil pressure, now resembled a leaky sieve rather than a filter. This was swapped out for a new filter and pipework. The copious clouds of white exhaust suggests that the pistons may need new rings, and the clutch still needed work. The loco was used occasionally, but on the 2nd December 2016 it left the site for a new home in Lincolnshire.

Where the Wickham had been stored, covered up in a barn in Cambridgeshire for many years.

Arriving at Springfield on the 4th September 2012.

It took very little coaxing to get the small lister engine started. However, it was very underpowered and the loco was unable to pull any wagons, so the decision was taken to sell it on. It left the site for it's new home on the 7th December 2012.

Arriving by Hiab lorry from Essex in Sept 2014 it was being prepared for unloading here.

These locos can still be seen in industrial service at a number of locations in Germany in 2015, so finally finding an example in relatively good condition, especially with the original single cylinder Diema engine, was very fortunate.

No cosmetic restoration or repainting is planned to leave it in as much original condition as possible. After various adjustments around the area of the fuel pump, a new core for the radiator, and patching up the fuel tank, the loco will now push start but will still not respond to the starting handle.