9F Heavy Goods Loco Black Prince

Weighing nearly 140 tons this clanking, steaming, smoking 9F heavy goods loco, now named Black Prince, spent its short working life hauling 1500 ton iron ore trains on Merseyside. Now it easily pulls a few coaches (about 160 tons) from Sheringham to Holt and back on the North Norfolk Railway.

Photo of 9F heavy goods loco 92293 Black Prince at Sheringham station — 9F 2-10-0 92203 Black Prince at Sheringham station on the North Norfolk Railway. This heavy goods loco is preserved in BR black livery and is owned by David Shepherd.

Numbered 92203 this loco was bought for £3000 from British Railways by the artist David Shepherd who named her Black Prince. The preserved loco was used on several heritage railways and in 1982 pulled the heaviest ever steam hauled freight train in Britain (2178 tonnes). Not bad for an engine built in 1959 and retired in 1967.