Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway Locomotives

==Locomotives in service==
Including engines serviceable, under overhaul, awaiting overhaul, or reserved to shunting or engineering duties.
Loco No.	Loco Name 	Photograph	Livery 	Power type 	Wheel Arrangement	Manufacturer 	Build date 	Whistle 	In Traffic?
1 	Green Goddess 	 	LNER Apple Green 	Steam 	4-6-2 	Davey Paxman & Co. 	1925 	Small Chime 	Yes
2 	Northern Chief 	 	Brunswick Green 	Steam 	4-6-2 	Davey Paxman & Co. 	1925 	Bulleid 	Yes
3 	Southern Maid 	 	SE&CR Green 	Steam 	4-6-2 	Davey Paxman & Co. 	1926 	ex-Isle of Wight Hooter 	Yes
4 	The Bug 	 	Improved Engine Green 	Steam 	0-4-0T+T 	Krauss, Munich 	1926 	RH&DR 	No (Awaiting Overhaul)
5 	Hercules 	 	Midland Railway Maroon 	Steam 	4-8-2 	Davey Paxman & Co. 	1927 	GWR Hall 	No (Awaiting Overhaul)
6 	Samson 	 	Prussian Blue 	Steam 	4-8-2 	Davey Paxman & Co. 	1927 	US Crosby 	Yes
7 	Typhoon 	 	Southern Railway Malachite Green	Steam 	4-6-2 	Davey Paxman & Co. 	1927 	BR Crosby 	No (Awaiting Overhaul at the Vale of Rheidol Railway)
8 	Hurricane 	 	Caledonian Railway Blue 	Steam 	4-6-2 	Davey Paxman & Co. 	1927 	Chrome LNER A4 	No (Under Overhaul)
9 	Winston Churchill 	 	Maroon with yellow lining 	Steam 	4-6-2 	Yorkshire Engine Company 	1931 	Crosby 	yes
10 	Dr. Syn 	 	Black with Yellow lining 	Steam 	4-6-2 	Yorkshire Engine Company 	1931 	LNER A4 from 4491 'Commonwealth of Australia'	Yes
11 	Black Prince 	 	DB Black/Red 	Steam 	4-6-2 	Krupp, Essen 	1937 	Fowler 	Yes
12 	J.B. Snell (formerly John Southland)	 	Black/Yellow 	Diesel-Mechanical	Bo-Bo 	TMA Engineering 	1983 	2-Tone Horn (AirChime, Ltd) 	Yes
14 	Captain Howey 	 	Blue/Silver 	Diesel-Mechanical	Bo-Bo 	TMA Engineering 	1989 	2-Tone Horn (AirChime, Ltd) 	No (dismantled for spares)
PW1 	Simplex 	 	Green 	Diesel-Mechanical	4wdDM 	Motor Rail Ltd. (Simplex Wks)	1938 	None 	Shunting only
PW2 	Scooter 	 	WD Grey 	Petrol-Mechanical	0-4-0PM 	RH&DR 	1949 	Ex Fire Engine 	Shunting only
PW3 	Red Gauntlet 	 	Red 	Petrol-Mechanical	0-4-0PM 	Jacot / Keef 	1964 / 1975	Halfords 	Shunting only
===Gallery===
File:greengoddesshythe.png|No 1 Green Goddess passes Hythe signal box with an evening departure for New Romney
File:New Romney, RH^DR, Engine No. 1 Green Goddess - geograph.org.uk - 2748199.jpg|Cab controls/backhead of No 1 Green Goddess
File:Southern_Maid_at_Hythe_station_2.jpg|No 3 Southern Maid at Hythe station 
File:S3700391.jpg|No 7 Typhoon at St Mary's Bay station
File:RHDR_No_8_Hurricane_Hythe.jpg|No 8 Hurricane at Hythe
File:Captain Howey at Dungeness station 1.jpg|No 14 Captain Howey at Dungeness station 
===Locomotive names===
*Nameplates are usually in upper case.
*No 1 was named Green Goddess after the 1921 stage play by William Archer, which Captain Howey had enjoyed.
*Nos 2 & 3 were to be called Northern Chief and Southern Chief and these nameplates were fitted at the works; however No 3's name was changed to Southern Maid.
*No 4 was sold in 1934 after construction because the proposed shunting and freight trains for it to work did not materialise. It ran in Belle Vue, Manchester, then Belfast with the new name Jean. The engine regained its original name on return to the RH&DR and restoration in the 1970s. It bears the colloquial name Basil the Bug in its role as mascot of the railway's children's supporter group.
*Nos 5 & 6 were to be called Man of Kent and Maid of Kent, but due to their high tractive effort (having smaller coupled wheels than the Pacifics) the names Hercules and Samson, with their allusion of strength, were substituted during construction. A decade later, Henry Greenly, the designer, was involved in the construction of a locomotive on the nearby Saltwood Miniature Railway, and this engine took the Maid of Kent name.
*Nos 7 & 8 were constructed with an extra third cylinder for express passenger services and were given their names Typhoon and Hurricane for speed. The third cylinder was later removed from each due to unreliability. The locomotives were originally to carry the Samson and Hercules nameplates, but Howey gave the Mountain classes these names before the three-cylinder locomotives had arrived.
*Following a mishap when Howey was at the controls, No 8 was renamed Bluebottle between 1938 and 1946, apparently as a punishment.
*No 9 was originally Black Prince, but exchanged its name with No 10 in 1931. Its name became Winston Churchill in 1948 for a tour of Canada, and remained so afterwards. At the same time the name Doctor Syn was transferred to No 10 and the name Black Prince fell into disuse.
*A brass name plate survives suggesting one of the Canadian outline locos was originally to have been called Black Devil. In the event this name was never used. George Barlow, the railway's operating manager, received a brass rubbing of this from an enquirer. When offered up to the cab side of Doctor Syn the bolt holes on the rubbing matched those in the loco's cab side perfectly.
*Some confusion exists over which locomotive actually carried the name Doctor Syn at any particular time. If the real Doctor Syn was out of service for any reason Howey often had its nameplates switched onto the other Canadian outline locomotive.
*No 11 took over the redundant Black Prince name upon transfer to the RH&DR in 1976, in place of its German name Fleißiges Lieschen (Busy Lizzie). The name was chosen after a competition run by a local newspaper in which Spitfire scored heavily, but was considered rather undiplomatic given the loco's origins.
*No 12, originally named John Southland after the founder of the local secondary school in New Romney, has since been renamed after the railway's long serving managing director John Bernard Snell.
*No 13 was never assigned, probably due to superstition. Another engine of the same class as Nos 12 and 14 was built in the years between them and exported to the Shuzenji Romney Railway in Japan where it is No 3 in their fleet and carries the name John Southland II.
*No 14 ran nameless for 12 years until it was named after the line's founder, Captain Howey.
*PW1 carried the fleet number 4 for about ten years from 1961 as a replacement for the Rolls-Royce engine, which in turn had inherited the number from The Bug which had been sold. The engine was renumbered PW1 shortly before the return of The Bug, leaving fleet number 4 available again for its original holder.
*PW2 was constructed in 1949, mainly by the rebuilding and re-use of a former War Department locomotive which had been in service since 1929. Popularly known as The Scooter it has recently acquired nameplates showing this name.
*PW3 Redgauntlet was built c1964 by Michel Jacot and using a modified Austin 7 engine originally ran on paraffin. It ran trials at both the Ravenglass & Eskdale and Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch in the late 1960s and was acquired by the RHDR in the early 1970s.
==Locomotives out of service==
This list includes engines sold, scrapped, failed in trials, or otherwise withdrawn. All engines were internal combustion locomotives.
Name or designation 	Wheel Arrangement	Manufacturer 	Build Date 	Withdrawal date	Notes
Theakston Fordson 	Bo′2' 	Theakston 	1928 	c. 1935 	Very early experiment with internal combustion. Large passenger locomotive with fully enclosed 2-seater cab. Operated on winter passenger services. Judged too slow, and ugly in appearance.
Super-Scooter (JAP Scooter)	Ultra-light
4-wheel scooter	RH&DR 	circa 1929 	c. 1945 	Light, open-cabbed, track inspection scooter, powered by 6 hp JAP motorcycle engine. Captain Howey recorded New Romney to Hythe in 8 minutes, light engine.
War Department Locomotive 	4-wheel scooter 	War Department 	1929 	1949 	The only privately owned locomotive to have seen long-term service on the RH&DR. Stabled at Hythe engine shed, worked the War Department branch line. Remained in RH&DR service briefly after the branch line closed. Used extensively as the basis for construction of locomotive PW2.
Rolls Royce Locomotive 	Bo′2' 	RH&DR 	circa 1932 	1961 	Built out of Captain Howey's Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost motor car. Large, fully enclosed cab, 2-seater, express passenger engine. Fully rebuilt in 1946 with sleek body-work. Re-engined (with Ford engine) in 1947. Tested at 60 mph with (possibly) empty coaches. This engine was numbered 4 in the locomotive fleet (three engines have used that number at different times) and briefly carried the name Bluebottle from 1947.
Firefly 	0-6-0 	HCS Bullock (rebuilt RH&DR)	1936 (rebuilt 1945)	1947 	Although a 10.25in gauge engine, Firefly was liveried and lettered as a RH&DR locomotive, and operated the post-war shuttle service when part of the line from New Romney to Warren Halt was temporarily re-gauged to 10.25in gauge. From 1947 the engine formed part of Howey's alternative project which became the Hastings Miniature Railway.
Motor Cycle Scooter 	Ultra-light
4-wheel scooter	RH&DR 	circa 1949 	c. 1952 	Light, open-cabbed, track inspection scooter, powered by motorcycle engine. The only RH&DR locomotive ever built of which no known photograph exists. Its existence is attested by former railway staff.
Royal Anchor 	B-B 	Charles Lane of Liphook 	1956 	1956 	Diesel Hydraulic double-ended (two cabs) locomotive, built for RH&DR service (as the Rolls Royce locomotive was near withdrawal). Royal Anchor failed trials due to lack of power. The project was abandoned and the locomotive returned to Liphook. It operated on the R&ER 1960–1977, and then at Carnforth 1977–2000. It is now operating privately in the USA.
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