1310 is a North Eastern Railway Class H 0-4-0T which was built in 1891 at the NER's Gateshead works. 24 locomotives of this design were built between 1888 and 1923, mainly for dock shunting and departmental duties, though one of them aspired to the dizzy heights of passenger work on the erstwhile North Sunderland Railway!

1310, which is owned by the Steam Power Trust, came to the Middleton Railway in 1965.  After seeing regular use on the line, it was taken out of traffic in December 2001 when its boiler certificate expired.