(photo - courtesy Ernie Brack)
Sentinel no. 9596 seen at the unloading area near the viscose factory
buildings.
(photo - courtesy Ernie Brack)
Viewed from other side of tracks with storage tanks behind loco.
(photo - courtesy Ernie Brack)
A loop allows the loco to run around the wagons.
(photo - courtesy Ernie Brack)
Warning! Carbon Disulphide was used in the viscose factory but was
always transported by road.
(photo - courtesy Ernie Brack)
Coal for the power house seen here on the weighbridge road. This road
ran from the exchange sidings up to the River Humber
which is just behind the bank after the 6th telegraph pole.
(photo - courtesy Ernie Brack)
The factorys two Sentinals, 9576 of 1955 on left, with 9599 "William"
of 1956 on right. "William" is now restored at
the Elsecar Railway in South Yorkshire.
(Photo - David Limb)
Sentinal 4wVBGT no 9599 built 1956 for Courtaulds Grimsby Works and named "William" after Sir William Stanier.
(photo - courtesy Ernie Brack)
1936 Peckett 0-4-0 with cut down bodywork seen out of use
alongside the viscose plant.
(photo - courtesy Ernie Brack)
The end of a busy day at Courtaulds Grimsby as the loco is
disposed and has its ash pan raked out at the shed.
I would like to thank Ernie Brack for permission to show these photos on my site
(Photo - David Limb)
A view of the loco shed with diesel shunter no. 3817 of 1956 inside. On right is Sentinel steam loco no 9596 of 1955. Taken 24th March 1978.
If anyone else has photos from
Courtaulds at Grimsby (or indeed anywhere in NE Lincolnshire) -
please get in touch!