Croydon Gas Works 4wVBGT No. 'Joyce'
Chinnor, Oxfordshire, UK 		Location: Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway
Status: Operational
Posted: May 24, 2025 @ 15:05:16 by Russell Newman
The LMS (ex Croydon Gas Works) Sentinel built 4wVBGT No. 7109 "Joyce", has been sold to new owners and is now leaving the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust at Midsomer Norton and relocating to its new home at the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway at Chinnor in Oxfordshire.
Posted: Jun 3, 2022 @ 06:06:02 by Russell Newman
The now numbered LMS/British Railways (Croydon Gas Works) Sentinel built 4wVBGT No. 47109 "Joyce" has been offered to the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust by her current owner and the railway has launched a £55,000 appeal to help raise the funds to buy the locomotive. Even though "Joyce" never worked on the legendry Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway her design was the inspiration for the two Sentinel locomotives of the same design that were used at Radstock in the days of the Somerset and Dorset and LMS and British Railways.
Posted: May 21, 2022 @ 09:05:10 by Russell Newman
The LMS (Croydon Gas Works) Sentinel built 4wVBGT No. 7109 "Joyce" has been turned out in British Railways guise and now carries the BR Number No. 47109.
Posted: Mar 14, 2022 @ 06:03:28 by Russell Newman
The ex Croydon Gas Works Sentinel built 4wVBGT "Joyce" currently running as LMS No. 7109 will be visiting the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway for their Cotswold Festival of Steam weekend on the 3rd to 5th of June 2022. Which will have a strong Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway theme to the Gala marking 60 years of the last Pines Express train that ran over the legendry route.
Posted: Mar 17, 2020 @ 11:03:04 by Russell Newman
The visit of No. 7109 "Joyce" to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway for their Cotswold Festival of Steam has also had to be put on hold due to event being postponed.
Posted: Feb 25, 2020 @ 14:02:30 by Russell Newman
The former Croydon Gas Works Sentinel built 4wVBGT "Joyce" running as LMS No. 7109 is to make her first visit away from her Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust home to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway to be part of the line up of visiting locomotives for their Cotswold Festival of Steam weekend from the 23rd to the 25th of May 2020.