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4wDM 'No.2' (FH 3601/1953) Port Tennant Wagon Works. Swansea.
This small 4wDM shunter with its bizarre non standard buffers and other modifications is seen during shunting moves in the yard of Port Tennant Wagon Works operated by Marcroft Engineering Ltd and formerly Railcar Services Ltd. The 'Planet' type loco had started life owned by Butterley Engineering Co. In Derbyshire and saw use at their Codnor Park Forge, Ironville. Some time after 1979 it was sold to Wagon Repairs Ltd and moved to their Sheepbridge Works also in Derbyshire. When this location closed it moved again with the company to Stoke Wagon Works in the early 1980's. It worked at this location until taken out of use in early 1989 by this date the Stoke Works had changed ownership to Marcroft Engineering Ltd from 1988. It was this company that also ran Port Tennant Wagon Works where it arrived in March 1989. It was returned to service to work alongside the Baugley built shunter already on site, it finished its days here being scrapped in November 1993. The works itself shut in 2003 leaving just the larger site at Stoke in Staffordshire carrying out wagon repairs. The whole area is now a housing estate.
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