Gas Works & Tileries Trip Drive

Gas Works & Tileries Trip Drive

Stoke mpd had about a dozen Class 3F 0-6-0T locomotives for shunting work at the yards in the vicinity, plus short trip workings. This session starts at Cockshute Sidings and covers an hour of a day's work of one of these shunters which has been detailed for a return trip to deliver coal to the nearby Etruria gas works. The trip also includes servicing the adjacent Canal Tileries with coal and sand. The siding servicing the Tileries is steep and has no run round facility. It is necessary to split the train of wagons at the level crossing to enable the engine to haul the heavy sand wagons to the top of the siding.
After unloading the coal you will leave three flat wagons at the despatch shed for loading with bricks.
This is a drive session and you must keep to the speed limits and obey signals. All junctions will be set for you by the signalmen at Cockshute Sidings, Cliffe Vale and Etruria Gas. However at Canal Tileries you will set your own and there will be Help Screens to allow you to do this.

There are three Simplex diesel shunters operating at Canal Tileries. They run around a self contained narrow gauge system servicing the clay pit, the mix and pressing sheds, the beehive kilns and the despatch shed.

Author: Andrew Howard (AndrewH)

Gas Works & Tileries Trip Drive
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