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Engineering Services also undertake contract overhauls for boilers of locomotives not resident on the SVR. An incomplete list includes:
*Quarry Hunslet 780/1902 ‘Alice’. Bala Lake Railway based locomotive received modifications with 3 washout mud doors, 2 re-located and tapped washout plug holes and 6 blanked off existing washout plug holes.<ref name="WRUAug2011">Express Points web round up, August 2011</ref>
*Andrew Barclay 0-4-0WT (works number 1995 of 1931) (2011). Ex-Burnhope Reservoir railway, later at Dinorwic Quarry where it became No. 70 ''Caledonia''. Based at Hollycombe Steam Collection. See also 2021 entry below.<ref name="WRUAug2011"/>
*Furness Railway 150 'Cumbria' - Hunslet Austerity works no 3794, arrived at Bridgnorth Boilershop on 1 August 2011.
*Hawthorn Leslie 2859 (Tanfield Railway No. 2) delivered at Tanfield on 6 August 2012.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX9iKxmaCJ4&feature=player_embedded Delivery of repaired boiler for Hawthorn Leslie 2859 (Tanfield Railway No. 2), YouTube 6 August 2012] (Retrieved 21 February 2013)</ref>
*No. 441 - Thomas Green Works ‘Barber’ 2ft Gauge 0-6-2ST, completed in 2013. The firebox was made by South Devon Railway
*Welshpool & Llanfair No. 10 ''Sir Drefaldwyn'' 20 December 2013 to 21 May 2015.<ref>SVR Engineering Twitter</ref>*Isle of Man Railway IOMR locomotive No. 11 ''Maitland'' arrived in 2014, returning 15 January 2016.<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=3043 SVR Forum 15 January 2014]</ref>
*Coffee Pot No. 1's boiler was sent to Bridgnorth for re-tubing in 2016.<ref>[http://beamishtransportonline.co.uk/2016/09/ti-news-week-34-2016/ Beamish Transport Online, 22 September 2016] (Retrieved 2 August 2019)</ref>
*Ivatt 2MT 2-6-2T No. 41241, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Completed December 2017.<ref>[https://www.heritagerailway.co.uk/3174/ivatt-boilers-steam-tested-in-readiness-for-worth-valley-50/ Steam Railway Magazine, 3 December 2017] (Retrieved 13 April 2019)</ref>
*Isle of Man Railway IOMR locomotive No. 15 ''Caledonia'' in 2018 and No. 4 ''Loch'' started that year.<ref>[http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=38197&headline=Five%20new%20boilers%20for%20locos%20-%20but%20what%27s%20the%20price%3F§ionIs=news&searchyear=2018 Isle of Man Today, 24 January 2018] (Retrieved 13 April 2019)</ref>
*Penrhyn Slate Quarry No. 'Glyder' 0-4-0WT<ref>SVR News 208</ref>.
*Quarry Hunslet 779/1902 ‘Holy War’, ex-Dinorwic Slate Quarry, No. 3 from the Bala Lake Railway.<ref name="bldec20"/><ref name=SVR213/><ref>SVR News 213</ref>*Hollycombe Steam Museum Andrew Barclay 0-4-0WT No 1995 'Caledonia ' (2021)<ref name=SVR213/>*In 2022 present were Isle of Man Railway IOMR locomotive No. 12 ''Hutchinson'' for which its chassis entered the boilershop for had frame stretcher attention as well as fitting an NB3 boiler. The in the boilershop, and side tanks for this loco were also in the paintshop. The Boilersmiths were continuing work on constituent parts and NB3 boiler returned to the Isle of Man in October 2023. *The boiler of IOMR No. 16 ''Mannin''.
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