Ruston & Hornsby

**Ruston & Hornsby**, later known as Ruston, was an industrial equipment manufacturer in Lincoln, England, the company's history going back to 1840. The company is best known as a manufacturer of narrow and standard gauge diesel locomotives and also of steam shovels.

Other products included cars, steam locomotives and a range of internal combustion engines, and later gas turbines. The company is now part of the Siemens group of Germany.

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## Diesel Locos

Ruston made many types of shunters all to a specific build. For example, Ruston designated the class names as their horsepower and their engine type. For example one of their classes was the 165DS, 165 hp and a diesel engine.

Home build classes include: 48DS, 88DS, 100DL, 165DE, 165DS, LSSE and LPSE.

Rustons are some of the most widespread shunters in the UK due to the diffrent types and gauges Ruston would build to. They built the Class 07, Class 97, Class 97/6 and D1/3 for British Railways.

*British Rail TOPS Numbers if given.*

* **AEI Lamp & Lighting at Harworth (Notts)** (W/No. 458959 of 1961 [48DS])
* **APCM Paddlesworth Quarry** (W/No. 189970 of 1939 [48DL, 3ft], W/No. 200511 of 1939 [48DL, 3ft], W/No. 221618 of 1943 [48DL, 3ft], W/No. 221619 of 1943 [48DL, 3ft])
* **Arlington Fleet Group Ltd** (W/No. 466617 of 1961, No. *01 508*)
* **Askern Colliery** (W/No. 384146 of 1956)
* **Bardon Hill Quarries** (W/No. 393304 of 1946 [48DS])
* **Barrow Haven Tile Works** (W/No. 235654 of 1946)
* **B.I.P. Chemicals, Langley Green** (W/No. 319290 of 1953 [165DM])
* **Blue Circle Industries Plc** (W/No. 425477 of 1959 [165DE])
* **British Acheson Electrodes** (W/No. 186309)
* **British Gypsum** (W/No. 338416 of 1953 [88DS], W/No. 398616  of 1956 [88DS], W/No. 418793 of 1958 [165DS])
* **British Railways Class 97** (W/No. 408493 of 1957, *97 020* [0-4-0])
* **British Railways Class 97/6** (97650–97654 [0-6-0])
* **British Railways, Horwich Works** (W/No. 416214 of 1957 [4 wheeled, 18in])
* **British Sugar Corporation (Bardeny)** (W/No. 327974 of 1954 [165DS])
* **British Sugar Corporation (Kidderminster)** (W/No. 281269 of 1956 [165DM])
* **British Sugar Corporation (King's Lynn)** (W/No. 327974 of 1954 [165DS])
* **British Thompson Houston** (W/No. 268881 of 1903/1907 [165DE])
* **Bowater's Northfleet mill** (W/No.416209 of 1957 [165DE])
* **Burt, Boulton & Haywood (Eling Wharf)** (W/No. 218044 of 1942 [48DS])
* **C.F. Booth Ltd.** (W/No. 466630 of 1963)
* **Chellow Heights and Thornton Moor** (W/No. 198287 of 1942 [2ft])
* **Chiltern Railways (Aylesbury Depot)** (W/No. 468043 of 1963, *01 509* [0-6-0DH], W/No. 459518 of 1961, *01 585* [0-6-0DH])
* **City of York Sewage Works** (W/No. 187081 of 1937 [4wDM, 2ft])
* **Clay Cross Foundry** (W/No. 327970 of 1954)
* **Cornforth Quarry** (W/No. 262996 of 1949 [88DS])
* **Corrall Ltd** (W/No. 242867 of 1949, [88DS])
* **Constain Concrete** (W/No. 326065 of 1952 [88DS])
* **Crossley Evans Ltd** (W/No. 284838, W/No. 42483, W/No. 459519 of 1961, *01 507* [0-6-0DH])
* **Dowlow Works** (W/No. 461959 of 1961)
* **Eastleigh Works** (W/No. 459517, *01 583* [0-6-0DH])
* **Ellesmere Port** (W/No. 466626 [88DS])
* **Elsham Lime Co.** (W/No. 235654 of 1946 [2ft])
* **Empire Paper mill (Greenhithe)** (W/No. 412718 of 1958 [200DE])
* **Gedling Colliery** (W/No. 375714 of 1955 [165DS])
* **Harpur Hill** (W/No. 198287 of 1942 [2ft])
* **Hilsea Gasworks** (W/No. 463153 of 1961 [88DS])
* **ICI chemical works** (W/No. 402803 of 1956 [165DE])
* **ISC Avonmouth** (W/No. 200743 [2ft])
* **Kilvington Gypsum Works** (W/No. 281290 of 1949 [3ft, 100DL])
* **Lec Refrigeration (Bangor Regis)** (W/No. 443642 of 1960 [48DS])
* **Longmoor Millitary Railway** (W/No. 459519 of 1961)
* **Maidenhead Brick & Tile Co.** (W/No. 195849 of 1939 [2ft])
* **Naburn Sewage Works** (W/No. 187105 of 1937 [2ft])
* **National Oil & Coke Cos. works** (W/No. 338416 of 1953 [88DS])
* **Nechells Power Station** (W/No. 275886 of 1949)
* **North Devon Clay Co. Ltd** (W/No. 443642 of 1960 [48DS], W/No. 446207 of 1961 [3ft], W/No. 435398 of 1959 [3ft])
* **Patent Shaft Steelworks, Wednesbury** (W/No. 418596 of 1957 [165DE])
* **Penlee Quarry Ltd** ( W/No. 175412, W/No. 177643, W/No. 200748, W/No. 213848, W/No. 229655, W/No. 229656, W/No. 246793, W/No. 287664, W/No. 375316 [All 2ft])
* **Penmaenmawr Quarry** (W/No. 202987 of 1941)
* **Pollock Browns & Co. Ltd** (W/No. 305310 of 1952 [48DS])
* **Pye Hill Colliery** (W/No. 395293 of 1956)
* **RAF Burtonwood** (W/No. 198287 of 1942 [2ft])
* **Rawdon Colliery** (W/No. 347747 of 1957 [0-6-0DM])
* **Ransome Hoffman Pollard** (W/No. 305302 of 1951 [48DS])
* **Redheugh Gas Works** (W/No. 476140 of 1963 [88DS] )
* **Rodmell Works (Lewes)** (W/No. 172892 [2ft], W/No. 177604 of 1936 [2ft])
* **Rowntree & Co.** (W/No. 423661 of 1958)
* **Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Bedenham** (W/No. 414300 of 1980)
* **Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Broughton Moor** (W/No. 221623 of 1943 [2ft 6in, re-gauged to 2ft])
* **Rufford Colliery** (W/No. 42579 of 1959 [165DE])
* **Sheffield Road glassworks** (W/No. 458959 of 1961 [48DS])
* **Shell Oil Refinery (Stanlow)** (W/No. 319284 of 1952 [165DS])
* **South Staffordshire Collieries** (W/No. 506491 of 1964 [2ft 6in, Re-Gauged to 2ft])
* **St. Kevern & Associated Quarries Ltd** (W/No. 177643 of 1948, W/No. 183426 of 1937, W/No. 171904 of 1935, W/No. 191642 of 1938, W/No. 191643 of 1938, W/No. 229656 of 1944 [All 2ft])
* **Sunderland Docks'** (W/No. 395294 of 1956 [165DE], W/No. 416210 of 1959 [165DE])
* **T. Ware Scrap Dealers (Carharrack)** (W/No. 439041 of 1953 [48DS])
* **Tioxide UK** (W/No. 414303 [165DS])
* **Tracked Hovercraft Ltd** (W/No.411322 of 1958 [48DS, 3ft])
* **Trackwork Ltd** (W/No. 417889 [48DS])
* **Vane Tempest Colliery** (W/No. 421438 of 1958)
* **WH Davis** (W/No. 321732)
* **Warner & Co.** (W/No. 417894 of 1959)
* **Whitwell Colliery** (W/No. 466620 of 1962 [0-4-0DH])
* **William Pike Ltd (Westbury)** (W/No. 193987 of 1939)

## Preservation

Many Ruston's have been preserved due to their great working ability and cheep prices. Railways include:

* Abbey Pumping Station (1 example, 2ft)
* Amberley Museum (2 examples, 2ft)
* Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway (5 examples)
* Bowes Railway (3 examples)
* Caledonian Railway (2 examples)
* Cambrian Heritage Railway (2 examples)
* Colne Valley Railway (1 example)
* Corris Railway (1 example, 2ft 3in)
* Ecclesbourne Valley Railway (2 examples)
* Epping Ongar Railway (1 example)
* Fife Heritage Railway (4 examples)
* Foxfield Railway (3 examples)
* Helston Railway (2 examples)
* Lavender Line (1 example)
* Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway (2 examples, 2ft)
* Leighton Buzzard Light Railway (3 examples, 2ft)
* Lincolnshire Wolds Railway (3 examples)
* Mid-Norfolk Railway (1 example)
* Northampton & Lamport Railway (3 examples)
* Old Kiln Light Railway (3 examples, 2ft)
* Rutland Railway Museum (4 examples)
* Severn Valley Railway (3 examples)
* Steeple Grange Light Railway (1 example, 18in)
* Talyllyn Railway (1 example, 2ft 6in)
* Welsh Highland Railway (2 examples, 1 ft 11 and 1/2 in)
* Yaxham Light Railway (2 examples, 2ft)

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