Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life - Sentinel locomotive
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life - Sentinel locomotive by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 23 Mar 2024
The blue locomotive is a Sentinel steam locomotive with a vertical boiler in the cab. No. 9628 of 1957. It worked at R.B. Tennants, Whifflet Foundry in Coatbridge. It has had a coat of paint and looks tidier than it did in pictures from the 2010s.