The Steeple Grange Light Railway

18-inch Gauge
No.	Type	Origin	Status
101	4w 4 seat Manrider	Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire	O
102	4w 4 seat Manrider	Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire	O
103	4w 16 seat Manrider	Bevercotes Colliery, Nottinghamshire	O
104	4w 16 seat Manrider	Bevercotes Colliery, Nottinghamshire	R   os
105	4w Ambulance Manrider	Bevercotes Colliery, Nottinghamshire	A   os
001	4w LWB Rail Wagon	Tinsley Wire Works	O
002	4w SWB Sleeper Wagon	Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire	O
003	4w End-tipping Wagon	Ladywash Mine chassis / industrial skip	O
004	4w Drop-side Open Wagon	SGLR-built body on Ladywash Mine chassis	O
005	Dunn Systems Metrobug	National Coal Board	R
006	4w Mess Van	Converted from 4w 8 seat Ladywash manrider	O
007	4w Explosives Wagon	Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire	R
008	4w Side-tipping Wagon	Body rescued from local quarry	O
009	4w Flat Wagon	Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire	O
010	4w Flat Wagon	Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire	O
011	4w Flat Wagon	Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire	O
012	4w Flat Wagon	Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire	O
014	4w Flat Wagon	Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire	O
015	4w Wooden Tub	Hepworth Iron Company	A   os
019	4w Low Floor Wagon		A
025	4w Bogy	HSE, Buxton	A
O – Operational       R – Under restoration       A – Awaiting restoration os – Off site Other than 18-inch Gauge
No.	Type	Origin	Gauge
016	Sales Van		2'
017	Colliery Mine Tub	National Coal Board	2'
018	Quarry Spoil Wagon		1' 9"
020	4w Chassis	Holme Bank Chert Mine, Bakewell	2'
021	4w Chassis	Holme Bank Chert Mine, Bakewell	2'
022	4w Chassis	Holme Bank Chert Mine, Bakewell	2'
023	4w Chassis	Holme Bank Chert Mine, Bakewell	2'
024	4w Chassis	Holme Bank Chert Mine, Bakewell

Descriptions

4w 4 seat Ladywash Manrider
Used for demonstration trains, and transporting Society members on works trains. It is intended to fit this vehicle with a parking brake.
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4w 4 seat Ladywash Manrider
This vehicle has recently been restored.
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4w 16 seat Bevercotes Manrider
This vehicle has been fitted with air brakes and end windows, and was regauged from 2' 3" to 18". It is currently the only vehicle permitted for use on public passenger trains.
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4 wheeled 16 seat Bevercotes manrider hauled by ZM32

4w 16 seat Bevercotes Manrider
Identical to the Manrider above, this vehicle is currently being regauged and fitted with air brakes, and will be used on passenger trains.
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4w Bevercotes Ambulance Manrider
Awaiting restoration, this vehicle has space to convey a stretcher, and it is intended to return it to this condition.
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4w Long Wheelbase (LWB) Rail Wagon
Originally from Tinsley Wire Works, this vehicle has been modified since arrival at Steeple Grange to make it suitable for carrying long loads such as full-sized sleepers and rails.
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4 wheeled long wheelbase rail wagon and Greenbat

4w Short wheelbase (SWB) Sleeper Wagon
This wagon is useful for transporting cut sleepers when tracklaying.
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4w End Tipping Wagon ('Leonard')
This wagon was built at Steeple Grange from a 4-wheeled chassis, and a factory waste hopper. It is useful for tipping ballast when tracklaying.
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4 wheeled end tipping wagon and Lizzie

4w Dropside Open Wagon
A new body was constracted on a Ladywash Mine chassis, to make an attractive and useful open dropside wagon for general carriage work.
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4 wheeled dropside open wagon

Dunn Systems Metrobug
This vehicle was orginally a track-recording car for the NCB, but was in a derelict state when it came to Steeple Grange It is currently dismantled, and awaits a decision about its future.
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Dunn Systems Metrobug being transported by road

4w Mess Van
This vehicle has been converted from a 4 wheeled 8 seat Manrider from Ladywash Mine to a Mess Van, fitted with an enclosed body with seats and storage space. It has a brakeman's veranda, from which to operate the handbrake.
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Mess van constructed from 4 wheeled 8 seat Ladywash manrider

4w Ladywash Explosives Wagon
Originally used for carrying explosives for blasting rock at Ladywash Mine and currently undergoing restoration.
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4w Side Tipping Wagon
This U-shaped side-tipping skip wagon has been constructed from components salvaged from quarries and industrial sites, and is typical of wagons used in quarrying and mining throughout the world. It is in National Stone Centre livery.
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4w Ladywash Flat Wagons
These five identical wagons have been restored for maintenance train use at Steeple Grange, and fitted with handbrakes.
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4w Wooden Tub
This is on loan to the SGLR, but is currently off site awaiting restoration.
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4w Low-floor Flat Wagon
Originally this wagon was the chassis of the Sales Van. Since that was mounted on a 2-foot gauge chassis, this low-floor chassis has been awaiting development, possibly as a special vehicle for visitors with impaired mobility.
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4w Bogy
Awaiting restoration outside the engine house.
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Other than 18-inch Gauge

Sales Van
This vehicle is mounted on a 2-foot gauge chassis, and gives us the claim to fame that we regularly operate one of the few dual-gauge narrow-gauge railways in Britain, on mixed-gauge track. On operating days, the Sales Van is rolled out along a few yards of 2-foot gauge line, where it shares one rail with the 18 inch gauge running line.
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Colliery Mine Tub
Opposite the platform at Steeplehouse, this small 2-foot gauge metal-bodied 4-wheeled wagon represents the narrow-gauge colliery lines once so common in the Derbyshire/Noftinghamshire Coalfield.
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Quarry Spoil Wagon
This 1' 9" gauge wagon, on display at the junction at Dark Lane Quarry, is typical of wagons used for bringing spoil up quarry inclines. The body is higher at the back, so that the load would not spill out when the wagon was being drawn up the slope.
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4w Chassis
These chassis await restoration. Four are 2' gauge; the fifth has no wheels.
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