8 wheels on my Sentinel
The successful Rolls Royce / Sentinel design of industrial locomotives from the early 1960s were most commonly built as 4 wheel chain drive, or rod driven 0-4-0 and 0-6-0 variants. However a small number of 0-8-0 locos were produced for the heaviest duties; customers included the NCB in Nottinghamshire and for steelworks on Humberside and South Wales, as well as one for the Ministry of Defence which has survived into preservation. These heavy machines (65 tons) had a Rolls Royce engine under each bonnet totalling 650hp.
Two were supplied to Normanby Park steelworks in Scunthorpe in 1963, the first being RR 10171 and named “Sir Douglas”. They were both transferred to the Appleby-Frodingham complex around 1980 but the long fixed wheelbase didn’t like curved track and later the centre coupling rods were removed to give some added movement, which didn’t prevent their operation as each of the inner axles was connected to an engine and full power could still be transmitted.
Here we see the former “Sir Douglas” dumped at Appleby-Frodingham in 1982 with nameplates removed from the nose end.
8 wheels on my Sentinel
The successful Rolls Royce / Sentinel design of industrial locomotives from the early 1960s were most commonly built as 4 wheel chain drive, or rod driven 0-4-0 and 0-6-0 variants. However a small number of 0-8-0 locos were produced for the heaviest duties; customers included the NCB in Nottinghamshire and for steelworks on Humberside and South Wales, as well as one for the Ministry of Defence which has survived into preservation. These heavy machines (65 tons) had a Rolls Royce engine under each bonnet totalling 650hp.
Two were supplied to Normanby Park steelworks in Scunthorpe in 1963, the first being RR 10171 and named “Sir Douglas”. They were both transferred to the Appleby-Frodingham complex around 1980 but the long fixed wheelbase didn’t like curved track and later the centre coupling rods were removed to give some added movement, which didn’t prevent their operation as each of the inner axles was connected to an engine and full power could still be transmitted.
Here we see the former “Sir Douglas” dumped at Appleby-Frodingham in 1982 with nameplates removed from the nose end.