Allied Ironfounders 0-4-0VBT No. None
Telford, Shropshire, UK 		Location: Coalbrookdale Mueum of Iron
Status: Stored
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Photo Copyright © Robin R Beck
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Posted: Oct 25, 2024 @ 10:10:00 by Russell Newman
One of Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron’s two secret Sentinel steam locomotives on display for many years, the former Allied Ironfounders 1925 Sentinel built 0-4-0VBT Works No. 6155 is to have cosmetic restoration be carried out on it as a part of a move by the Museum to improve there display.
Posted: Nov 12, 2023 @ 07:11:41 by Glyn Bowen
A grant has recently been obtained from The Association for Industrial Archaeology to carry out conservation work on this locomotive in the near future. Work will largely consist of a deep clean, treatment of rusted areas and painting with protective paint. Interpretation panels will be added.
Posted: Oct 24, 2018 @ 11:10:15 by Robin R Beck
Originally built by Manning Wardle works number 437 in 1873. Was a 0-4-0ST supplied to Gaskell, Decon & Co, Widnes becoming their number 2 loco. Gaskell, Decon & Co was a company pioneering new methods of producing hydrochloric acid with cheaper by-products of chlorine, soda & bleaching powder. May have worked there until the business closed in 1919.

In 1925 it was rebuilt by Sentinel Limited in Shrewsbury becoming a vertical boiler geared locomotive. Then it was used at the Coalbrookdale Ironworks until rail traffic ceased at the works in 1960. Has passed into preservation but nothing seems to have been done to the loco. Now stored under an arch of a viaduct next to the car park at Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron.

Posted: Jan 19, 2012 @ 13:01:01 by Steve Frost
As well as building locos on their own chassis, Sentinel also converted older conventional locos into vertical boilered locos with a Sentinel engine for power.

This one uses the chassis of Manning Wardle works number 437 of 1873, a real old timer by 1925. Notice that the coupling rods were retained, a common feature of these conversions.

Can someone spruce this rarety up a bit?