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Topic: Settle Speakman & Co. Ltd
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Sentinel S4
Re: Settle Speakman & Co. Ltd
I believe that a lot of the old LCDR crews called these Big 'B's' as they are almost direct copies of the B2. Just the cylinders were enlarged by about 1/2 inch...... Surtees was a great designer, Wainwright did a cool paint job though.
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« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2012, 22:43:29 »
Quote from: CDP on October 10, 2012, 12:34:43
DS239 sounds like a diesel number.
Definitely not!
It is still alive and well, and running on the Bluebell Railway. See: http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pics/c.html
Hello DS239 sounds like a diesel number.
Thanks for the pictures, a good addition to the thread, lovely shots.
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Surfing the old interweb,I came across these rather nice images of the internal railway system at Queenborough.
Here's an Andrew Barclay 060DH at the wharf at the end of the line..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/6608916583/in/set-72157626793773096.. an ex-BR Class 03 060DM loco trundling along the line out to the said wharf...http://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/6616219765/in/pool-1191229@N23.. with this one of a Hunslet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/6951109174/in/set-72157626793773096... an English Electric: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/6951109620/in/set-72157626793773096..a North British 040DH in the 'shed' area: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/6697002705/in/set-72157626793773096/ ...and,last but not least, this image of the works area: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12a_kingmoor_klickr/6608915161/in/set-72157626793773096/
Stroodle
I cycled over to Queenborough on Sunday for some lunch and came across this branchline, and was amazed at how much track still exists. The "loco shed" on the map above is still there and is home to a motley collection of 70's era deisel shunter locos, some wagons and a railway crane. Where the line crosses over Rushenden Road there is still a "beware of trains" road sign, implying that the line is still in use?
Looking at GE the line appears to still go all the way down to the docks, I'm tempted to go down there with a camera as judging by the development of the area I can't believe the line will be around for too much longer. There seems to be a footpath that follows the railway on the OS map.
Sylvaticus
While we have the map just above, I'd like to pinpoint the location of "The Hut", at least the one I knew as such. The Settle Speakman Office is clearly marked on the corner of Rushenden Road and Main Road, opposite the castle site. Immediately behind that was a long black wooden hut extending a short way down Rushenden Road. This was used for British Legion meetings and perhaps other organizations too. Can't remember how long it remained there after 1945. This is possibly "The Hut" referred to elsewhere on this forum in connection with Dr Penney's ARP duties in 1940.
Also visible on the map is a longish building at the bottom of Stanley Avenue, this was the rifle club (small bore). The Home Guard had it for the first years of WW2, my grandfather had a big wooden box with a machine gun in it. The club house was wrecked when a parachute mine exploded about 50 yards south of Stanley Avenue.
This is good stuff CDP. Please may we have some more? Interesting that the basic rail system still exists as one of the last major private works railways in the UK. Sentinel S4.
Settle Speakman & Co.Ltd.. Queenborough ,Kent.1907 to1957
Settle Speakman & Co. Ltd
1907 to 1957 A 50 Year Booklet