BUILT BY : F.C. HIBBERD
(WORKS NO. FH3509)
BUILT : 1951
WITHDRAWN : 1971
No. 23 was Ireland's last
privately owned broad gauge locomotive. She was used by Irish Shell
at their Alexandra Road premises in Dublin for shunting oil tank wagons.
Now at Whitehead, she was a valuable (if not very powerful) shunting engine.
This locomotive is long overdue some major overhaul work and it is hoped
that the arrival into traffic of the Carlow diesel will allow this to take
place. Nicknamed at Whitehead as "The Planet". |
Planet diesel No.23 at Whitehead
in 1999. Photo by PJ Lockett.
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