Etruria Gas & Canal Tileries

Etruria Gas & Canal Tileries

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 plus the collection of bricks. 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.

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

Author: Andrew Howard (AndrewH)

Etruria Gas & Canal Tileries
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