Sir Vincent
Aveling & Porter 4-wheel well tank 'Sir Vincent' (Works No.8800 built in 1918) and Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Swanscombe' at the loco shed and station area of the Fifield Central Railway on 31st May 2024. 'Sir Vincent' is essentially a traction engine on rail wheels with a geared drive and compound cylinders. Originally supplied to Vickers Ltd. at Erith in Kent, it was named after the company's Finance Director Sir Vincent Callard. In 1931 it was acquired by the British Oil & Cake Mills in Erith, and sold on into preservation in 1975 to Commander John Baldock at Holllycombe, near Liphook in Hampshire. It arrived at Fifield in 2008 from the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road.
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Sir Vincent
Aveling & Porter 4-wheel well tank 'Sir Vincent' (Works No.8800 built in 1918) and Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Swanscombe' at the loco shed and station area of the Fifield Central Railway on 31st May 2024. 'Sir Vincent' is essentially a traction engine on rail wheels with a geared drive and compound cylinders. Originally supplied to Vickers Ltd. at Erith in Kent, it was named after the company's Finance Director Sir Vincent Callard. In 1931 it was acquired by the British Oil & Cake Mills in Erith, and sold on into preservation in 1975 to Commander John Baldock at Holllycombe, near Liphook in Hampshire. It arrived at Fifield in 2008 from the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission