Croydon Generating Station 'A'
Tucked away out of sight at Croydon 'A' generating station was this steeple cab 0-4-0 electric loco. Bob Darvill of the Industrial Railway Society kindly supplied the following data: This electric loco was built by English Electric, Preston in 1925 - EE 692, but didn't survive the closure of the power station and was scrapped in April 1974.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. Photographed in the fading evening light is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842, was built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. This is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842 built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. This is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842 built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. This is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842 built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. This is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842 built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. This is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842 built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. This is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842 built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. This is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842 built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. This is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842 built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'A'
It isn't widely known that Croydon's industrial base was served not by just the well-known 'B' generating station but also by an 'A' station only walking distance away but on the other side of the line that's now the Tramlink. This is Bagnall 0-4-0ST No. 2 which carries works No. 2842 built in 1946 and withdrawn from service in 1972. She's currently in the process of restoration at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Generating Station 'B'
Not sure which loco this is. When the nearby 'B' station's diseasels wouldn't start due to wintry conditions steam would be rolled out yet again to cope and this shot was taken in weak winter light as late as 1970 although the date isn't recorded.

Express Dairy near Sutton
The picture was taken from the window of a passing EMU whilst travelling towards Sutton from Wimbledon.
I bow my head in shame with this one as I've been given chapter and verse on this loco in the past but no longer have the notes. However, Simon Harding has written to say that it is the Express Dairy bottling plant's Ruston & Hornsby 48DS at Merton.

Not the best of negs but here we see Beckton gas works 0-4-0T No. 2.

Beckton Gas Works
Beckton 0-4-0T No. 39. I have no supporting data on the Beckton fleet unfortunately.

Beckton Gas Works
Beckton 0-4-0ST No. 3 was a Peckett product that saw service there from 1937 - 1959.

Beckton Gas Works
Beckton 0-4-0T No. 4. I have no supporting data on the Beckton fleet unfortunately.

Beckton Gas Works
Beckton 0-4-0ST No. 38. I have no supporting data on the Beckton fleet unfortunately.

Beckton Gas Works
Beckton 0-4-0T No. 29. I have no supporting data on the Beckton fleet unfortunately.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Alpha built by W. G. Bagnall in 1932 with works no. 2472.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Conqueror built by W. G. Bagnall in 1922 with works no. 2192.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Conqueror built by W. G. Bagnall in 1922 with works no. 2192.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Conqueror built by W. G. Bagnall in 1922 with works no. 2192.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-4-2ST Excelsior built by Kerr Stuart in 1908 with works no. 1908.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
Although most enthusiasts are aware of the narrow gauge system because of its survival as the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway far fewer realise that Bowaters also operated on the standard gauge. Here we see a portrait of the recently withdrawn Bagnall 0-4-0ST works no. 2542 Jubilee which survives to this day.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-4-2ST Leader built by Kerr Stuart in 1905 with works no. 926.

Bowaters Paper Mills
Monarch was delivered to Bowaters at Sittingbourne in 1953 (Coronation year and hence the name) and is a Bagnall 0-4-4-0T which was never, in that environment, any kind of a success and was rarely used in service. She was sold to a member of the Welshpool & Llanfair Railway in 1966 and proved to be even less suitable there than at her previous home. Mike Morant collection.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
Although most enthusiasts are aware of the narrow gauge system because of its survival as the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway far fewer realise that Bowaters also operated on the standard gauge. The two recently withdrawn locos shown here are Bagnall 0-4-0ST Jubilee at the rear and SECR Wainwright 'P' class 0-6-0T Pioneer. Both survive to this day.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-4-2ST Premier built by Kerr Stuart in 1905 with works no. 886.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-4-2ST Premier built by Kerr Stuart in 1905 with works no. 886.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Superb built by W. G. Bagnall in 1922 with works no. 2624.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Superior built by Kerr Stuart in 1920 with works no. 4043.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Triumph built by W. G. Bagnall in 1934 with works no. 2511.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
0-6-2T Triumph built by W. G. Bagnall in 1934 with works no. 2511.

Bowaters Paper Mills 25/4/68
2-4-0FUnique built by W. G. Bagnall in 1924 with works no. 2366.

Croydon Gas Works
Lined up with unobstructed view on an unrecalled date were the three recently withdrawn gas works locomotives alongside Waddon Marsh Halt. The foremost of the locos is 1920 built Kerr Stuart 0-4-0ST Moss bay with works no. 4127 which started life with the Moss Bay Haematite Iron & Steel Co Ltd at Workington in Cumbria hence the loco's name. What I don't know is when the loco moved all that distance from one less than salubrious working environment to another some 300 miles away.
Moss bay survives to this day as a static exhibit at the Foxfield railway.

Croydon Gas Works
Lined up with unobstructed view on an unrecalled date were the three recently withdrawn gas works locomotives alongside Waddon Marsh Halt. Joyce is a 1927 built sentinel with four cylinders, a vertical boiler and gear drive. This loco is now preserved.

Croydon Gas Works
Lined up with unobstructed view on an unrecalled date were the three recently withdrawn gas works locomotives alongside Waddon Marsh Halt. The leading loco is Moss Bay which has been described elsewhere. Next in line is Joyce a 1927 built sentinel with four cylinders, a vertical boiler and gear drive whilst the loco bringing up the rear is the 1922 built Avonside 0-4-0ST Elizabeth which had originated at the Lower Sydenham Gas works. Apparently all these locos survive to the present day. Electricity generation station 'B' looms in the background behind the A23 road bridge and the ersatwhile line towards Wimbledon is seen disappearing into the distance on the right.

Croydon Gas Works
1922 built Avonside 0-4-0ST Elizabeth had originated at the Lower Sydenham Gas works but is depicted here following withdrawal from service at Croydon's gas works.

Croydon Gas Works
Viewed from the rear are Joyce the 1927 built vertical-boilered sentinel and Moss Bay a 0-4-0ST.

Croydon Gas Works
Not the best of images in terms of quality but here we the inside of the cab of Joyce the Sentinel.

British Portland Cement at Greenhithe
This overhead electric integral hopper wagon was the brainchild of the British Portland Cement Man. Co. Johnson's Branch at Greenhithe.