page_title: Hunslet Engine Company
section_title: 2000– present
hierarchical_section_title: Hunslet Engine Company / History / 2000– present
caption_attribution_description: English: The Hunslet Engine Co - Jack Lane In business 1864-1995 building locomotives and other engines.
context_page_description: The Hunslet Engine Company was founded in 1864 in Hunslet, Leeds, England. The company manufactured steam-powered shunting locomotives for over 100 years, and currently manufactures diesel-engined shunting locomotives.
  As of 2012 the company is part of the LH Group; a subsidiary The Hunslet Steam Company maintains and manufactures steam locomotives.
context_section_description: In 2004 the Hunslet Engine Company was acquired by the LH Group – production was moved to Barton under Needwood; whilst other operations remained in Leeds.
  In 2006 the company manufactured remote-controlled diesel electric shunters for John M. Henderson & Co. Ltd. to be supplied to POSCO's coking plant in South Korea. The same year saw the completion of several orders for underground and mining diesel locomotives.
  In 2007 Hunslet began developing a new family of locomotives ranging from shunters to vehicles weighing up to 100 tons. The first locomotive of the new class, the DH60C, a 3 axle C diesel hydraulic shunting locomotive, was unveiled in July 2010.
  The company also operated a locomotive hire business (including a British Rail Class 08 shunter acquired in 2006), mainly of industrial shunting locomotives.
  In 2012 LH Group was sold to the Wabtec Corporation for US$48 million. The company owns the right to the names and designs of a number of former British locomotive manufacturers including Andrew Barclay, Avonside Engine Company, North British Locomotive Company, Greenwood and Batley, Hudswell Clarke, John Fowler & Co., Kerr Stuart, Kitson & Co., and Manning Wardle – it also maintains, and supplies spare parts for those brands.
  The Hunslet Steam Co.
  The Hunslet Steam Co. is part of the LH Group. The company is involved in new-build steam locomotives (including two Quarry Hunslet 0-4-0ST locomotives), boiler making and locomotive maintenance.
caption: The former Hunslet works in 2009.
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