Excelsior at Ramsbottom Whittaker Quarry on 24.04.60. From Geoff Brown collection.
Aveling and Porter No. 1607, named Excelsior, is a 3 foot gauge 2-2-0GWT (geared well tank) railway traction engine built in 1880 at Leiston Works in Leiston, Suffolk, England.
It was supplied new to James Whittaker & Sons and worked at the Scout Moor Tramway until 1910 where it was abandoned to the elements. The locomotive when through several restoration attempts, all of which never came to fruition.
Currently owned by the Hollicombe Steam Collection in Liphook, the locomotive is in such a poor state that it would be cheaper to build a replica of Excelsior and comestically restore the original, as restoring it to operating condition would essentially remove a majority of the original material.