British Admiralty (1854-1923)

(The railway was, presumably, owned by some other department of the British Government from 1847 to 1854)

Channel Islands Granite Co Ltd (1923-1940)

This company took over the railway in 1923, together with locomotives No.1 and No.2. No.1 was returned to England and replaced by Manning Wardle 0-6-0ST Nitro.

German occupation (1940-1945)

No.2 and Nitro were commandeered by the Germans and are believed to have been shipped to Cherbourg in 1943 or 1944. The Germans lifted part of the standard gauge line and replaced it with a 600 mm gauge line,^[2] worked by two Feldbahn 0-4-0 diesel locomotives.

British Home Office (1945-50s)

The line was restored to standard gauge in 1947–1949 and the following stock was used:

• Sentinel 4wVBT Molly, in service from 1947, withdrawn 1958. May have been converted to a mobile sand-blaster, which was still extant in 1980.^[3]
• Cowans Sheldon steam crane
• Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 diesel Molly II
• Wickhams Type 27A trolleys

Alderney Railway Co Ltd (1980-present)

• Bagnall 0-4-0ST J.T. Daly, steam engine built in 1931, in service 1982 until 1996 when sold to the Pallot Heritage Steam Museum, Jersey^[4]
• London Underground 1938 Stock from Bakerloo and Northern lines, badly rusted and returned to UK in 2000 as spares.^[4]
• Former London Underground 1959 Stock cars nos. 1044 and 1045,^[5][6]
• A Vulcan Drewry 0-4-0 diesel locomotive no. D100 Elizabeth, bought in 1985.^[4]
• A Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 diesel Molly II
• Six Wickham rail cars.

Molly II is currently awaiting modification to her coupler system, so she can haul the London Underground stock. However, this cannot happen at the moment^[when?] because she is not yet owned by the Alderney Railway company.^{[citation needed]}

Sheds to house the engines and railway stock were built at Mannez quarry in 1997 and 2008^[4]

Notes

• arr. = date arrived on Alderney
• T = tank locomotive
• ST = saddle tank locomotive
• TG = geared tank locomotive
• VBT = vertical boiler tank locomotive