"Cloister" in the Museum engine workshop, Norden

A 0-4-0 saddle tank, belonging to the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust, currently on loan to the Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum.

Built in 1891 by Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis in Wales, and worked there until 1962. Named retrospectively by the quarry-owner after the winner of the 1893 Grand National (which also happened to belong to the quarry owner).

If it appears unsophisticated for a late 19th century locomotive, its design was and remains both robust and practical.

Cloister was participating in Swanage Railway's Steam Gala last weekend, travelling the Museum's short stretch of narrow-gauge railway.