Sentinel Waggon Works

**Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd** was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries, railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries and locomotives.
An incredible site was seen on the BR Main Line, nine 0-4-0DHs where seen around the Mirfield area on the 25th of July 1963.

## Mainline Classes

Sentinel made several 0-4-0 locomotives for various mainline (Pre-BR) companies over its' life time.

* GWR No. 12
* LMS No. 7164
* LMS Nos. 7160 - 7163
* LMS No. 7192
* LNER Y1 Class
* LNER Y3 Class
* LNER Y10 Class
* S&DJR Sentinels

## Other Uses

Sentinel Shunters where also used by Industrial companies as shunting locomotives in places such as:

* **APCM Holbrough Quarry** (W/No. 10033 of 1960)
* **ARC New Frome Quarry** (W/Nos. 133C of 1963 and 136C of 1964, W/No. 9374 of 1947)
* **ARC Whatley Quarry** (W/No. 9386 of 1948, W/No. 9387 of 1948)
* **Bardon Aggregates** (W/No. 10256 of 1966, *01 572*)
* **Betteshanger Colliery** (W/No. 9627 of 1957)
* **British Steel** (W/No.10265 of 1963 [6wDH], W/No. 10036 of 1960 [4wDH], No. P403D of 1960)
* **Bombardier (Wakefield)** (W/No. 10275 of 1969)
* **C.F. Booth Ltd.** (W/No. 10288)
* **Chatham Dockyard** (W/No. 6994 of 1927)
* **Croft Quarry** (W/No. 10256)
* **Crossley Even** (W/No. 10023 of 1960)
* **Croydon Gas Works** (W/No. 7019 of 1927)
* **ED Murray & Sons Ltd** (W/No. 10229 of 1965, *01 560*)
* **Esso (Hull)** (W/No 10199 of 1964)
* **Esso (Plymouth)** (W/No 10199 of 1964)
* **English China Clay** (No. P403D of 1960)
* **Falmouth Dock & Engineering Company** (W/No. 10129 of 1963)
* **Gas Board, Cambridge** (W/No. 8024 of 1929)
* **Hawton Plaster works** (W/No. 9373 of 1947)
* **Harry Neadle Railroad Company** (W/No. 10213 of 1964)
* **Newmarket Colliery** (W/No. 10182 of 1964)
* **Hope Cement Works** (W/No. 10153 [0-6-0DH], W/No. 10156 [0-6-0DH])
* **Imperial Smelting Co. Ltd** (W/No. 10023 of 1960, W/No. 10048 of 1960)
* **Manchester Ship Canal** (W/No. 10226 of 1965, 10282 of 1968, 10283 of 1968)
* **Manchester Trafford Park** (W/No. 10147 of 1963, *01 557*, W/No. 10226 of 1965, *01 558*, W/No. 10227 of 1965, *01 559*)
* **Merstham Lime Co.** (W/No. 6994 of 1927)
* **Ministry of Defence (MoD)** (W/No. 10143 of 1963, W/No. 10186 [0-6-0DH], W/No. 10279 [0-6-0DH])
* **Moor Green Colliery** (W/No. 10178 of 1964 [0-8-0])
* **Oxfordshire Ironstone Co.** (W/No. 10201 of 1965, W/No. 10204 of 1965, W/No. 10207 of 1965)
* **Procor** (W/No. 10275)
* **Raisby Tarmac Quarry** (W/No. 10077 of 1961)
* **RB Tennent Ltd - Whifflet Foundry (Coatbridge)** (W/No. 9627 of 1957)
* **Rugby Portland Cement Ltd**(W/No. 9627 of 1957)
* **Shap Granite Co.** (W/No. 10186 of 1964)
* **Silverhill Colliery** (W/No. 10195 of 1964 [4wDH])
* **Standard Brick & Sand Co. (Later British Industrial Sand Ltd)** (W/No. 6994 of 1927)
* **Stewarts and Lloyds Minerals Ltd** (W/No. 10275 of 1969)
* **Sutton Colliery** (W/No. 10073 of 1961)
* **Teeside Bridge Engineering Co.** (W/No. 9629 of 1957)
* **Tottenham Gas Works** (W/No. 9366 of 1945)
* **Wabtec** (W/No. 10119 of 1962 [0-4-0DH], W/No. 10137 of 1962 [0-4-0DH], W/No. 10251 of 1966 [0-4-0DH])

## References

1. ↑ The Railway Magazine, 101 Things you Didn't Know About Railways, July 2016
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 Industrial Locomotives and Railways of the South and West of England, Gordon Edgar, ISBN 978-1-4456-4920-7
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel\_Waggon\_Works
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British\_Rail\_Class\_01/5
5. ↑ http://picssr.com/photos/142340440@N04/interesting?nsid=142340440@N04
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 http://picssr.com/photos/142340440@N04/interesting/page3?nsid=142340440@N04
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.bodminrailway.co.uk/stock/moreinfo/83
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://www.e-v-r.com/stock/10275
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/28530-industrial-locomotives-in-the-late-80s-to-mid-90s/
10. ↑ https://www.sdjr.co.uk/locomotives-and-rolling-stock/locomotives?start=2
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 https://eastsomersetrailway.com/locomotives-stock/cattewater
12. ↑ http://www.ribblesteam.org.uk/exhibits/steam/49-sentinel-8024-1929-gasbag
13. ↑ http://www.ribblesteam.org.uk/9-exhibits/steam/50-sentinel-9373-1947-st-monans
14. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sentinel\_10213\_(5677073366).jpg
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Industrial Railway Locomotive Sheds, A Pictorial Selection, Adrian Booth, *ISBN 978-1-901556-81-0*
16. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sentinel\_10156\_at\_Hope\_Cement\_Works\_05-09-18\_29.jpeg
17. ↑ https://allanjenks.smugmug.com/Trains/Industrial-Shunters2/i-L7KRhJk/A
18. ↑ http://www.ribblesteam.org.uk/12-exhibits/diesel/46-sentinel-10165-1965-energy
19. ↑ http://www.ribblesteam.org.uk/exhibits/diesel/47-sentinel-10282-1968-enterprise
20. ↑ http://www.ribblesteam.org.uk/exhibits/diesel/48-sentinel-10283-1968-progress
21. ↑ http://www.avonvalleyrailway.org/about-us/locomotives-rolling-stock/sentinel-0-8-0dh-no-610-general-lord-robertson/
22. ↑ https://allanjenks.smugmug.com/Trains/Industrial-Shunters2/i-X7VXpjF/A
23. ↑ https://allanjenks.smugmug.com/Trains/Industrial-Shunters2/i-M7DD7ts/A
24. ↑ http://picssr.com/photos/142340440@N04/interesting/page2?nsid=142340440@N04
25. ↑ http://www.rocks-by-rail.org/exhibit/s-10201-betty/
26. ↑ http://www.rocks-by-rail.org/exhibit/s-10204-jean/
27. ↑ http://www.rocks-by-rail.org/exhibit/s-10207-graham/
28. ↑ http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/28530-industrial-locomotives-in-the-late-80s-to-mid-90s/
29. ↑ http://www.plymrail.co.uk/locomotives.html
30. ↑ http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/locomotivesandrollingstock/CollectionItem?objid=1981-7000&pageNo=19
31. ↑ http://www.brc-stockbook.co.uk/9366.htm
32. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sentinel\_10119\_(5669029551).jpg
33. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sentinel\_10137\_(5669601896).jpg
34. ↑ https://allanjenks.smugmug.com/Trains/Industrial-Shunters2/i-Q7qznHF/A
35. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sentinel\_10251\_(5669606440).jpg