The last run of a narrow gauge diesel locomotive in industrial service in a British factory.
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Painter Brothers, Hereford.
Lister Railtruck 40407/1954
Filmed in 2011 when I bought this, and the other Lister 54181/1964, which had already been lifted off the track by the overhead gantry crane.
To the best of my knowledge the title of this video is correct. There are a tiny number of other British industrial locations which still have narrow gauge tracks, an even tinier number with locomotive haulage, and preserved locomotives have operated on industrial lines.
But I don't know of any other locations in the British isles where a narrow gauge diesel locomotive has run in a factory in industrial service after the day I shot this video.
Immediately after the last frame of this video the crane lifted 40407 off the rails and an era ended.
At 1:30 you can see one of its successors, a battery electric machine.
Someone show this video to Lawrie(from LMM), he'll probably get very excited about a locomotive so new to preservation.
Don't tempt him, he/we have enough to play with already with standard gauge.
Lol @@trainswithnickyt
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Painter Brothers in Hereford. The company being part of Balfour-Beatty Group Ltd.
They make Electricity Transmission Towers (They don't like to call them Pylons!)
Whilst the Lister diesel looks have left for preservation. The system is still in use with a pair of 4w battery electric locomotives built by Clayton which are as follows.
- 4wBE CE 5806/1973.
- 4BE CE BO142B/1973.
Today in 2024 Painter Brothers are one of the very few industrial locations in the UK that.are still using narrow gauge locomotives in any role at all.
One of the few instances when something can be a toy and tool simultaneously
I like the body work they put on the Lister. The blue color looks lovely as well.
Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.
cool video
Cute!
Aww it’s so cuuuuute
Jeremy Kirkwood in attendance i see. caroline
!Good video, like!
Maybe the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, 2'6" formerly servicing the adjoining paper mills?
Great footage, thanks for uploading. I only realised that Painter Bros had industrial locos a few weeks ago from some pictures on Flickr. I used to work pretty much next door in 2002. Quite tempted to make a model railway based on it.
Sounds like a Lister ST3.
Cool catch
Last run on diesel. They installed overhead wires instead? 😂
And why do they push the cars themselves while they have a locomotive to do that for them?
So many questions...
Yes it was the last diesel run. They had two diesels at the time I bought them but the other one had already been lifted off the tracks. The replacements are Clayton battery electric locomotives. You can just see one at 1:30, inside the factory. I don't know why they pushed the wagons, I just filmed what they did. So many questions? Ask away.