Sentinel Steam Loco 7109

48 years since Sentinel 7109 was last believed to have been steamed (and 56 since it was definitely known to have been steamed), finally a f...

I last wrote about Sentinel 7109's ashpan in December 2012. In that article , I showed the fixing brackets being processed. Since then, ...

Perhaps not a particularly gripping subject but important all the same. Sentinel 7109 has two steam pressure gauges and a vacuum brake syste...

The last few weeks have been busy and I've amassed a back-blog again. Not to worry as the 'blog has had to give way to actual progre...

Following on from my last article , Thursday 7th January 2016 also saw Sentinel 7109's boiler with 60 psi of air in it from a (somewhat ...