Covertcoat
From Festipedia, hosted by the FR Heritage Group
This Hunslet 0-4-0ST, based on the Launceston Steam Railway in Cornwall, visited the FR for the May 1998 Mini-Gala, operating shuttle trains with (substantial!) assistance from Palmerston at the other end of the train. Covertcoat was built to shunt slate wagons on the quayside at Port Dinorwic, and was later moved to the Dinorwic Quarries themselves. Since preservation, it has been fitted with a cab and tender. In more recent times it's boiler and tank were 'borrowed' and put on the rest of Dorothea, the resulting loco painted green and operatied on the LSR. Covertcoat has since been returned to normal, and there has been talk by her owner of extending the firebox by 2 inches to the rear to give a larger grate area by almost a whole foot.
.
Some of the information about the visiting Hunslets is from the book "Quarry Hunslets of North Wales" by Cliff Thomas.
A photograph of this locomotive standing at the buffer stop at New Mills station on the Launceston Steam Railway can be found here
.