DHR 778

DHR 778, originally number 19, is a 0-4-0ST narrow-gauge steam locomotive of the DHR B Class, built in 1889 by Sharp Stewart and Company at the Atlas Works in Glasgow for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Sharp, Stewart designed the B class, of which 34 were built between 1889 and 1927 by Sharp, Stewart, by its successor the North British Locomotive Company, by Baldwin Locomotive Works and by the railway's own works at Tindharia. Number 778 is the only B class with a tender and the only DHR locomotive outside India, and it carries what is said to be the oldest locomotive boiler still in use anywhere in the world, due for replacement in early 2027. After years out of use at the Hesston Steam Museum it was bought by the enthusiast Adrian Shooter, restored to working order in the United Kingdom and based on the Beeches Light Railway, and it has also run on the Ffestiniog, Leighton Buzzard, Launceston and South Tynedale railways. After Shooter's death in 2022 the Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust bought it at auction in June 2023 and moved it to the Statfold Barn Railway.