Yellow Vanguard
Thomas Hill “Vanguard” 4wDH works number 213v is seen at APCM Shipton-on-Cherwell cement works, Oxfordshire in September 1981. It’s coat of yellow paint is covering the green livery it wore when originally delivered here new in 1969.
At the time of this visit, there was also a spare loco on site, an 0-4-0 DM John Fowler 4220037 which came here from APCM Sewell quarry near Dunstable.
When this facility closed, the Vanguard was moved to the Lafarge cement plant at Aberthaw, South Wales in 1985 where it worked for another decade or so. It is still there, dumped out of use and gradually deteriorating.
The Fowler moved to Rhoose cement works in South Wales to join another pair of Fowlers there, but has since been scrapped.
Yellow Vanguard
Thomas Hill “Vanguard” 4wDH works number 213v is seen at APCM Shipton-on-Cherwell cement works, Oxfordshire in September 1981. It’s coat of yellow paint is covering the green livery it wore when originally delivered here new in 1969.
At the time of this visit, there was also a spare loco on site, an 0-4-0 DM John Fowler 4220037 which came here from APCM Sewell quarry near Dunstable.
When this facility closed, the Vanguard was moved to the Lafarge cement plant at Aberthaw, South Wales in 1985 where it worked for another decade or so. It is still there, dumped out of use and gradually deteriorating.
The Fowler moved to Rhoose cement works in South Wales to join another pair of Fowlers there, but has since been scrapped.