Perhaps for the last time, Lady McAlpine hosted another event on behalf of the National Transport Trust at her Fawley Hill estate home. Lady Judy McAlpine is president of the Trust and works tirelessly to promote its aims of supporting the preservation and restoration of all forms of Britain’s rich transport heritage on road rail, wings and water. Lady McAlpine took on the role after the sad passing of her husband, the late Sir William McAlpine in 2018.
Fawley is the home of the Fawley Hill Light Railway which operates for about a mile around the grounds of the estate. Built to standard gauge to accommodate Sir William’s Hudswell Clarke tank engine, the railway. The former Linby Colliery Hunslet was on loan from Didcot Railway Centre for the weekend and was paired with resident class 03 D2120 for the ferocious climb through the grounds of the house. The Hunslet was sharing duties with Jack Dibnah’s Kerr Stuart 0-4-0 saddle tank which was visiting from its home at the Foxfield Railway and will be visiting here again later in the year and was a regular up the hill here.
