RNAD Dean Hill Shunter Identification

[Andy M]

Can anyone please help in identifying the narrow gauge 0-4-0 DM Shunter featured in the images, seen shunting at the Dean Hill Royal Navy Armament Depot during WW2?

 

 

It appears to have worked there from the opening of the site in 1943 and I thought it looks like a Fowler. The Industrial Railways Society however only list a standard gauge Fowler allocated there, with most of the narrow gauge fleet being Hunslet's.

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

Regards,

Andy.

Edited August 25, 2019 by Andy M

[petethemole]

It's a Hunslet 'flameproof' rod-drive 0-4-0 DM designed for the mining industry. One survives (not the same one) at the Almond Valley Light Railway

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=2ahUKEwjxw5fN853kAhUhsaQKHfnmC1A4ChAWMAB6BAgEEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.almondvalley.co.uk%2FDocuments%2F2016RailwayStock.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0STfsRvybVJxMHu_dWru0J

[Andy M]

That is brilliant, thank you Pete.

Regards,

Andy.

[Ramblin Rich]

I assume it's also the same as the Welshpool & Llanfair railway no. 11 'Ferret'

https://www.wllr.org.uk/locomotive

[AMJ]

Number
and
NameClassWheels 
GaugeBuilder
Works No/Year builtNotes/Location

Yard No. P9260  0-4-0
Diesel Mechanical 
2'6"Hunslet Engine Co 
2248/1940

Threlkeld Musuem, ex RNAD Dean Hill 

84  0-4-0
Diesel Mechanical 
2'6"Hunslet Engine Co 
2249/1940

RNAD Dean Hill 

L3  "Henry Abraham" 0-4-0
Diesel Mechanical 
2'6"Hunslet Engine Co 
2250/1940

Sunshine Peat, Armagh ex RNAD Dean Hill 

11  "Ferret" 0-4-0
Diesel Mechanical 
2'6"Hunslet Engine Co 
2251/1940

Welshpool Lt Rly, ex RNAD Dean Hill  
External link

L4  "Victoria" 0-4-0
Diesel Mechanical 
2'6"Hunslet Engine Co 
2252/1940

Sunshine Peat, Armagh ex RNAD Dean Hill 

88  0-4-0
Diesel Mechanical 
2'6"Hunslet Engine Co 
2253/1940

RNAD Dean Hill 

Yard No. P9261  0-4-0
Diesel Mechanical 
2'6"Hunslet Engine Co 
2254/1940

Threlkeld Mus, Cumbria ex RNAD Dean Hill 

[D Dalton]

Those pics of the old Baguleys were taken during the war as you can see the camouflage netting over the magazine entrance! 
the driver is my friends Dad Percy Dawkins. My friend would love a copy of the picture 

i worked in Dean Hill in the 90s and drove the Hunslets and Baguleys 

[decauville1126]

1 hour ago, D Dalton said:

 

i worked in Dean Hill in the 90s and drove the Hunslets and Baguleys 

 

Wonder if you drove this one when you were there? Bg3751 60HP ex-Trecwn. Used at Dean Hill for pilot brake conversion to 4 cylinders from 2, plus modified couplers. It had a crunch which bent the frame and broke the front axle. My son bought it and I regauged it and made a new axle, plus rehanging the brakegear and reconfiguring the engine mounts. Still looks the same as when it left Dean Hill apart from replacement coupler blocks from another ex-Trecwn 100HP loco. Pic was taken in 2004 when we collected it after the auction.

 

 

[daveyb]

I always thought the RNADs would be interesting to work in.  I only worked Army ordnance depots... Big and modern with only rail loading in and out not to the sheds. Nesscliff and Upnor were interesting, too

[Andy M]

On 16/08/2020 at 21:37, D Dalton said:

Those pics of the old Baguleys were taken during the war as you can see the camouflage netting over the magazine entrance! 
the driver is my friends Dad Percy Dawkins. My friend would love a copy of the picture 

i worked in Dean Hill in the 90s and drove the Hunslets and Baguleys 

 

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[Guest Jack Benson]

On 21/08/2020 at 07:55, daveyb said:

I always thought the RNADs would be interesting to work in.  I only worked Army ordnance depots... Big and modern with only rail loading in and out not to the sheds. Nesscliff and Upnor were interesting, too

By the ‘80s Dean Hill was rather different from the Gosport depots, there were Paveway and WE177 facilities, the latter required armed escorts to/from the depot.
 

It’s relative remote location was both a problem and pleasure, due to lack of affordable accommodation and rural environment. 
 

Beyond the east end of the site was a rail connection to US Army Lockerly, a wartime munitions storage facility of the 820th Ordnance Base Depot on a requisitioned estate. Click here for Lockerly The site was completely cleared after the war.

 

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