Covertcoat

Covertcoat is a 0-4-0ST 'Quarry Hunslet' built in 1898 by the Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds as No. 679. Originally named 'The Second', as she was the second of a batch of two, she was later renamed after the racehorse which won the Grand National in 1913.

Covertcoat was built for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry in North Wales, and worked there until c.1959. Sold in 1964, she was initially preserved by enthusiast John Butler, who kept her for twenty years before she was sold to the LSR in 1984.

Her cab is a replica of the type fitted to some of the 'Quarry Hunslets' and was fitted in 1987, whilst her tender was constructed at the railway in 1991 to provide additional coal and water capacity.

Over the winter of 2006/7, a new boiler was manufactured for Covertcoat. For more information see here.