It has taken me a long time to realise that although i enjoy building large locomotives the real need for the layout is for shunting locomotives. I also have an interest in Industrial locomotives and used to go and watch the NCB locos hauling loaded coal trains into the exchange sidings at Donnington a few miles from Trench. I have already mentioned the ex GW Pannier tanks but I have also built some other shunters, the first two being some converted 08 diesels from Bachmann. These are fitted with Ultrascale wheels and I have fitted Brassmasters fine scale coupling rods. One has been weathered and one I still need to do. The loco without the wasp stripes is modelled after I found a photo of it on Wellington shed circa 1964 still without stripes.

Because Trench sidings had lines down into a Canal basin and also a number of Iron works for my model I have assumed that these iron works continued and had their own shunters. The access to the works went over a weigbridge so that is why ex L&Y Pug and ex Caly Pugs were used in the 1930s and 1940s.
Both these Industrial are built from Impetus kits, the green Bagnal being built by me some 25 years ago! Unfortunately it is fitted with a high speed motor coupled to a 40-1 gearbox so it is not exactly a slow runner, but that was the only motor that would fit. The Hunslet is another matter though and runs very slowly. I just need to decide what number to put on it and what lettering style.

david