Bauxite No. 2 : Conserved not restored

Saved by the Scrap Man

In 1947 Bauxite No.2 came to the end of its working life and should have been cut up for scrap. Luckily the scrap merchant decided to preserve this locomotive by donating it to the North Eastern Engineering and Historical Society. Bauzite No. 2 had worked in an aluminium smelting plant, pushing wagons of Bauxite rock into the smelters. Its large buffers allowed it to shunt wagons with different buffer heights over badly laid track. Since entering the National Collection, the locomotive has been cared for, but not repainted.

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John Kendrick

Created on

Saturday 9 November 2013

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Saturday 9 November 2013

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EXIF Metadata

Maker

PENTAX

Model

PENTAX K-01

EXIF

2.2

Lens

smc PENTAX-DA 14mm F2.8 ED[IF]

Date Time of Original

2013:11:09 13:46:28

Aperture Number

4

Exposure Time

1/40 s

Exposure compensation

0.0 EV

Flash

no, mode: supressed

ISO

2500

Focal Length

14 mm

Focal Length in 35mm Film

21 mm

White Balancing

auto

Exposure Mode

auto

Exposure Metering Mode

pattern

Exposure Program

aperture priority

Contrast

normal

Saturation

normal

Sharpness

hard