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"Neil Warbrick"
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"Neil Warbrick"
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ENTINEL
TEAM
AGGON
No. 5676
Built 1924
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Last updated.23/09/12
History...
Waggon 5676 was built in 1924 and commenced service with the Penrith and District Road Carrying Co in January 1925. It spent its working life with an associated company, the Greenside Lead Mining Co, transporting lead ore and stone from Greenside mine to Troutbeck Station, about eight miles away, and returning with coal and coke.
This area of Glenridding and Patterdale is now most associated with tourists, hill-walkers and Ullswater steamers. However up Glenridding valley - one of the many valleys which intersect the surrounding landscape - was Greenside mine, Lakeland's largest lead mine which has a history spanning 1690 up to its closure in 1962. The Sentinel and other steam wagons were just some of the forms of transport utilised around the mine throughout this long history.
The steam wagons had a reputation for being difficult to drive on the steep and narrow tracks down from the mine, and in 1932 the Sentinel suffered a steering failure and plunged into a ravine where it remained until recovered in the 1980s.
Rebuilt 5676:
This area of Glenridding and Patterdale is now most associated with tourists, hill-walkers and Ullswater steamers. However up Glenridding valley - one of the many valleys which intersect the surrounding landscape - was Greenside mine, Lakeland's largest lead mine which has a history spanning 1690 up to its closure in 1962. The Sentinel and other steam wagons were just some of the forms of transport utilised around the mine throughout this long history.
The steam wagons had a reputation for being difficult to drive on the steep and narrow tracks down from the mine, and in 1932 the Sentinel suffered a steering failure and plunged into a ravine where it remained until recovered in the 1980s.
Rebuilt 5676:
Finishing touch of the sign-writing underway:
The former Greenside mine site near Glenridding - some of mine buildings are now a youth hostel (October 2008):
Photo: T Rees
Photo: T Rees