Sentinel Y1/3 class

[Rlangham]

Just come across this locomotive at a railway museum in India, very similar to the LNER's Y1/3 class. There was also one identical to the Y1/3 preserved at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre which has now moved, and apparently there are two identical ones under an arch at the Museum of Iron at Ironbridge. Be interested to know in anymore details of these, and also of any more if there's any out there


http://www.railmuseum.org/new_nrm/newou ... .asp?id=81

[richard]

Yes it does look very similar.

The Buckinghamshire one is listed on my page (I think it has travelled to the Isle of Wight in the past decade, if memory serves?) is an ex-GWR example. All of the Big Four trialled them, but the LNER was the only one to purchase them in any numbers.

I think there might be something Sentinel at Tenterden as well, because the Middleton had shipped their boiler down to them, when I visited last August.


Richard

[Colombo]

Richard,

Sentinel also supplied some interesting railcars to Egypt. These had oil fired Sentinel boilers and the usual geared transmission. They appear to have run very well for years, and after withdrawal one set languished in a yard before being repatriated to the UK. I last heard of the set being stored at Quainton Road, The Buckingham Preservation Society site.

See http://rpm-railpics.fotopic.net/p7765935.html

They also had some Sentinel steam locomotives which is described at http://home.freeuk.com/btnobbins/MUSEUM ... /egypt.htm

Colombo

[richard]

There is or was a website somewhere that listed all the preserved Sentinel rail vehicles - about 30-40 around the world. Railcars do feature a lot on the list.

I think there's also one of the shunters on a plinth in Iraq - near that 8F that's out in the desert!


Richard