PHOTOPAGE `NO. 2
The photographs this month picture two locomotives that worked on the 18 inch gauge system in Crewe works, London Midland and Scottish Railway.
The steam locomotive "PET" was built in 1965, having 1 ft. 4 inch drivers and 5 1/2 x 6 inch cylinders. It was apparently first tried out as a canal bank barge tug, much in the same manner as it still employed on the French Dunkerque to Basel canal, which uses overhead wire electric locomotives on both 600mm. and metre gauges (see "Modern Tramway" Vol. 32, No. 379, July 1969, p222 to 227). It ended its working life when the works tramway closed in 1934, being then stored in the Paint Shop. It can now be seen in the Narrow Gauge Museum at Tywyn (Towyn), Talyllyn Railway.
One of our members, Douglas Dawling, has kindly sent the Society some British Rail copy drawings, one of which is an outline drawing of "PET". So, please, if any of you have details or information about the locomotive, let us know as we hope to feature this locomotive as a drawing in the next issue of the "Mercury".
The other locomotive, Hudswell Clarke No. D563/1930, was a 20 h.p. diesel built specifically for the Crewe works tramway. Designed to run at 3s. 1d. per week, it was the smallest rod driven diesel ever built at the Railway Foundry, Leeds. With the end of the works tramway in 1934, it was transferred to the ex-ancashire and Yorkshire Railway works at Horwich for similar duties, where it ran until replaced by a more modern product, a Ruston & Hornsby class LAT
Stuart Baker, 1977
The steam locomotive "PET" was built in 1965, having 1 ft. 4 inch drivers and 5 1/2 x 6 inch cylinders. It was apparently first tried out as a canal bank barge tug, much in the same manner as it still employed on the French Dunkerque to Basel canal, which uses overhead wire electric locomotives on both 600mm. and metre gauges (see "Modern Tramway" Vol. 32, No. 379, July 1969, p222 to 227). It ended its working life when the works tramway closed in 1934, being then stored in the Paint Shop. It can now be seen in the Narrow Gauge Museum at Tywyn (Towyn), Talyllyn Railway.
One of our members, Douglas Dawling, has kindly sent the Society some British Rail copy drawings, one of which is an outline drawing of "PET". So, please, if any of you have details or information about the locomotive, let us know as we hope to feature this locomotive as a drawing in the next issue of the "Mercury".
The other locomotive, Hudswell Clarke No. D563/1930, was a 20 h.p. diesel built specifically for the Crewe works tramway. Designed to run at 3s. 1d. per week, it was the smallest rod driven diesel ever built at the Railway Foundry, Leeds. With the end of the works tramway in 1934, it was transferred to the ex-ancashire and Yorkshire Railway works at Horwich for similar duties, where it ran until replaced by a more modern product, a Ruston & Hornsby class LAT
Stuart Baker, 1977
