4wDH (TH 176V/1966) at Silvertown, East London.
Former NCB Nottinghamshire Area 4wDH shunter named 'Susan' built by Thomas Hill Ltd (wks no. TH 176V/1966) is seen shunting wagons of scrap on the Silvertown Tramway in East London.
This shunter had been obtained by Ward Ferrous Metals Ltd from another breakers in Yorkshire, namely C.F. Booth's Ltd of Rotherham. It had last worked for the NCB (later British Coal) at Gedling Colliery before being sold for scrap to Booth's albeit in working order.
The problem of working at a scrapyard often meant serious mechanical failure resulted in being added to the pile of scrap being processed at the site, but this shunter was the lucky one. It out lasted the sites use as a scrapyard and survived to be sold to a private buyer in Shropshire after the location closed to rail traffic in September 1991. It languished on site out of use before being removed by its new owner in 1992.
The Silvertown Tramway linking Silvertown on the North Woolwich branch with the industrial area alongside the River Thames. It closed in late 1991 when this scrapyard shut as it was the last generator of freight traffic on the once busy line. The previous other traffic to Crosfield's having been lost some years earlier. In its heyday a maze of lines radiated off this route which formed a freight artery through the Port of London's Royal Victoria Dock and Thames Wharf area. It formerly linked back onto the North Woolwich branch just south of Canning Town station at Thames Wharf Junction.
4wDH (TH 176V/1966) at Silvertown, East London.
Former NCB Nottinghamshire Area 4wDH shunter named 'Susan' built by Thomas Hill Ltd (wks no. TH 176V/1966) is seen shunting wagons of scrap on the Silvertown Tramway in East London.
This shunter had been obtained by Ward Ferrous Metals Ltd from another breakers in Yorkshire, namely C.F. Booth's Ltd of Rotherham. It had last worked for the NCB (later British Coal) at Gedling Colliery before being sold for scrap to Booth's albeit in working order.
The problem of working at a scrapyard often meant serious mechanical failure resulted in being added to the pile of scrap being processed at the site, but this shunter was the lucky one. It out lasted the sites use as a scrapyard and survived to be sold to a private buyer in Shropshire after the location closed to rail traffic in September 1991. It languished on site out of use before being removed by its new owner in 1992.
The Silvertown Tramway linking Silvertown on the North Woolwich branch with the industrial area alongside the River Thames. It closed in late 1991 when this scrapyard shut as it was the last generator of freight traffic on the once busy line. The previous other traffic to Crosfield's having been lost some years earlier. In its heyday a maze of lines radiated off this route which formed a freight artery through the Port of London's Royal Victoria Dock and Thames Wharf area. It formerly linked back onto the North Woolwich branch just south of Canning Town station at Thames Wharf Junction.