THE INDUSTRIAL RAILWAY RECORD

Nos. 3 & 4 - p45

© DECEMBER 1963

GREENHITHE

Drawing by DOUG CLAYTON
Story by KEN PLANT

    GREENHITHE was one of a batch of three "W6 Special" locomotives with drooped footplates supplied by Peckett & Sons Ltd. of Bristol to the British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd.. Johnson’s Branch, Greenhithe, Rent, as under:

Name

Works  No.

Tested  in  Steam

Despatch  Date

STONE 1740 26.10.27 18.11.27
DARENTH 1741 9.11.27 30.11.27
GREENHITHE 1742 23.11.27 29.12.27

   GREENHITHE’s boiler was built of Siemens-Martin mild steel rolled at Dalzell (Motherwell); as was usual Peckett practice at the time the longitudinal seams were butt jointed with double cover plates and quadruple riveted. It was tested by hydraulic pressure to 260 lbs. per square inch and by steam pressure to 165 lbs. for a working pressure of 160 lbs. A riveted copper firebox and brass tubes were fitted.

    The leading dimensions were as under:

Cylinders : 14" x 22" Wheelbase : 5’6"
Wheels (dia.) : 3’ 2½" Weight (empty) : 23 tons
Extreme height : 10’ 2" Weight (loaded) : 28½ tons
Extreme width : 8’ 2" Tank Capacity : 850 galls.
Length over buffers : 23’ 8" Tractive Effort : 16.240 lbs.

    GREENHITHE worked at Johnson’s Branch until early in 1959 when, on the arrival of new Sentinel diesels, it was put into store in the shed along with STONE. About October 1962 it was transferred to the Hessle Chalk Quarry. near Hull, of G. & I. Earle Ltd., where it is still in use.