Chemical industry with railway locomotives at Widnes ? 1967
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Chemical industry with railway locomotives at Widnes ? 1967
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 22 Feb 1967
Inside the fence on the right is the McKechnie & Co chemical works. In the yard can be seen their shunting locomotive of the time. This was a Sentinel chain drive vertical boiler locomotive, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Waggon_Works#Railway_vehicles no.9381 of 1947, named 'Enterprise'. Shunting in the foreground is one of British Railways' type 05 diesel shunters built by the Hunslet Engine Co, with a rake of mainly traditional timber-sided wagons.
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Image Location
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53.357215
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-2.74429