20 March 2011
The Ruston locomotive on site is 50 years young this year. Details are:-

Engine Type 48DS with 48 hp Ruston 4YC engine. Works number 458959 and engine number 460158. New to AEI 11/12/1961 of Sheffield Road glassworks, Chesterfield, Derbys with a last known working location AEI Lamp & Lighting at Harworth (Notts). Some 130 locos of this class were built before this example and only 6 afterwards as demand for locos with low power and traction effort had dwindled. The engine has been numbered DS1174 and named 'Yeo'. A similar engine (DS1169) used to work at the Yeovil Junction permanent way department (The loco was ex-works on 14/5/1946 (Serial No 237923) and delivered to the Bristol Aeroplane Co at Weston super Mare. It was sold to BR (Southern Region) in 1948, and was used as a shunter at Folkestone Warren until 1962 when it was transferred to Yeovil Junction.)




The nameplate made by John Cornelius to be carried in 2011.
(Photo courtesy John Cornelius)




'JC' with the engine which is owned by the Ruston Group.
(Photo courtesy Brian Haigh)




(Photo courtesy John Cornelius)


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