Coalbrookdale Ironworks. 0-4-0ST No. 5
Telford, Shropshire, UK 		Location: Enginuity Museum
Status: Display
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Posted: Oct 23, 2018 @ 15:10:48 by Robin R Beck
In 1865 the Coalbrookdale Company Ironworks built six 0-4-0ST standard gauge locomotives, keeping two to work their ironworks which they numbered 5 & 6. Their number 5 worked into the 1930s. When it was sold for scrap. The buyers hired it out as a working loco to the Netherseal Colliery in Derbyshire. Later it went to Bardon Hill Quarries, Leicestershire. Still in use in the mid 1940s, until abandoned in the open. In 1959 moved to Coalbrookdale for preservation. Now displayed inside the Enginuity building, one of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums
Posted: Jul 8, 2015 @ 11:07:41 by Huw Jones
Great display, though I had not realised that it was a local built engine - and possibly the only survivor or its class. Coalbrookdale No 5 is listed elsewhere as having been converted to Sentinel vertical boiler type in 1925. LOCOSUV Sheet1.pdf Works No 6155 Date New 1925 Type Loco 0-4-0 Cylinders 2 Vert HP 80 Gauge Std Original Owner Current Owner/Location Coalbrookdale Co Ltd (Converted Coalbrookdale Loco No 5) Ironbridge George Museum, Shropshire However I assume that the reference to Manning Wardle no 1472 being converted to Sentinel No 6185 in 1927 is correct. That leaves the question about the origin of the second Sentinel conversion that you have - and which is which! Sorry to nitpick, but I was surprised to see that the more complete "Sentinel" did not look quite like any other Sentinel, and then got intrigued by the idea of Sentinel converting engines ON this website a photo describes No 5s return to Coalbrookdale in 1959, though the photograph looks earlier. However, thanks (to all the Ironbridge museums) for providing a fascinating week of discovery!