North Ings Farm Museum

Farm museum in Dorrington, England

53°03′36″N 0°21′49″W / 53.0599°N 0.3635°W / 53.0599; -0.3635Typefarm museumWebsitenorthingsfarmmuseum.co.uk

The North Ings Farm Museum is a working farm museum containing a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway, running on a circuit of 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km). It is located at Dorrington, between Lincoln and Sleaford, in Lincolnshire. The museum includes agricultural machinery and tractors, commercial vehicles, portable steam pumps and a fairground organ. The collection was opened to the public in 1990.^[1]

Locomotive Fleet

Steam Locomotives

1859401 Swift^[2]

Internal Combustion Locomotives

Clay Cross Lister Built from Lister spare parts by Clay Cross Co Ltd^[2]
Hunslet 6013^[2]
Hunslet 7120 Bullfinch^[2]
LOD / 758022 Motor Rail 8826 Penelope^[2]
Motor Rail 7493^[2]
R&H 183773^[2]
R&H 200744 Indian Runner^[2]
R&H 371937^[2]
R&H 375701^[2]
R&H 421433^[2]
O&K Works number not known^[2]

Gallery

Entrance to North Ings Farm Narrow Gauge Railway and Vintage Tractor Museum
Indian Runner on display in the loco shed.

References

^ "History – North Ings Farm Museum". northingsfarmmuseum.co.uk. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Industrial Locomotives: including preserved and minor railway locomotives. Vol. 17EL. Melton Mowbray: Industrial Railway Society. 2015. ISBN 978 1 901556 88 9.

External links

The Museum website
Media related to North Ings Farm Museum at Wikimedia Commons
T.W.F. Hall: The North Ings Farm Railway. Pages 15–19.

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