Sentinel Railcar at Hitchin

[smudger]

Saw this interesting photo here:

http://gngen.fotopic.net/p43342466.html

Anyone know it's name? Can't make it out from the photo. Was this only a trial or did these often work out from Hitchin? And which line would they have worked?

Cheers,

Alan

[Bullhead]

Only a rough guess based on the number of characters which seem to be visible in the photo and a comparison with http://www.lner.info/locos/Railcar/sentinel.shtml, I think it's possibly "Royal Charlotte" or "Royal Sovereign".

[R. pike]

Have just spoken to Mr Camfield and he says Trafalgar. I'm not totally convinced..

[Bill Bedford]

Saw this interesting photo here:

http://gngen.fotopic.net/p43342466.html

Anyone know it's name? Can't make it out from the photo. Was this only a trial or did these often work out from Hitchin? And which line would they have worked?

According to 10B Sentinels that were allocated to Hitchin were Waterloo, Rising Sun and Royal Forrester

[Bullhead]

To my imperfect eye, the photo definitely shows a name composed of two separate words - so Royal Forrester is perhaps the most likely candidate?

[Malcolm]

I have checked the details against a photo I have, counted the letters and characters, and enhancement with Adobe has convinced me it is Royal Forrester.

Malcolm

[hq1hitchin]

Think they worked the Hertford service, principally, with other little jobs to Biggleswade and Letchworth on a Saturday, that kind of thing. Only main line work they ever had was as a workmans train, literally, early on in WW2 when one of the last used to do a daily Hitchin - Connington service conveying p.way men building the new yard there. Great shame none of the Sentinels survived although I think there was an Egyptian one at Quainton Road recently, a 3 car, if I remember rightly. At Hitchin, they used always refer to 'Bang Up' when talking about steam railcars of any type although I think this was a Clayton?