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Summary This short film shows the routine shed operations involving Adams ex-London & South Western Railway Class O2 0-4-4 tank engines on the Isle of Wight in 1960.
Description
This short film shows the routine shed operations involving Adams ex-London & South Western Railway Class O2 0-4-4 tank engines on the Isle of Wight in 1960.
No.W32 Bonchurch (built 1892) enters Ryde Station, reverses, moves over to other platform, and then reverses again. Its 'Macleod' coal bunker, specially applied to locomotives stationed on the Isle of Wight, is clearly apparent. It stops over an ash pit, and the fireman throws out the fire, opens the smokebox door, and...
This short film shows the routine shed operations involving Adams ex-London & South Western Railway Class O2 0-4-4 tank engines on the Isle of Wight in 1960.
No.W32 Bonchurch (built 1892) enters Ryde Station, reverses, moves over to other platform, and then reverses again. Its 'Macleod' coal bunker, specially applied to locomotives stationed on the Isle of Wight, is clearly apparent. It stops over an ash pit, and the fireman throws out the fire, opens the smokebox door, and shovels out the accumulated ash before closing it again. The driver oils the outside crank pins, and the side tanks are filled with water.
There is a close up of the cab of sister engine No.W21 (1891) as well as its side tank showing the BTC roundel and nameplate Sandown. The engine is coaled by hand from a concrete stage. Very clean No.W28 Ashey (1890) moves off shed and is then seen stationary in close up showing details of the roundel and nameplate, smokebox, Westinghouse pump, sidetanks, and safety valves. The film shows the smokebox and pump in further detail with the pump in action spurting steam. Beyond the chimney another 0-4-4T can be seen with a third just visible. There is a close up of buffer beam of No.28, then its bunker, concluding with a side view of the engine. The film ends with a view of the engine in reverse. END
Historical Notes:
When the film was made steam was still dominant on British Railways. The operations seen are a microcosm of what was happening every day over almost the entire UK. O2s continued to operate between Ryde and Shanklin until the end of 1966, i.e. less than two years before the end of steam on BR as a whole. The last survivors, which included one built in 1889, were the oldest steam locomotives still at work in the country.
