Accurascale OO H4-AB16-004 CPC UK 1964 Andrew Barclay 16" 0-4-0ST Oxford Blue
A detailed and smooth running OO gauge model of the Andrew Barclay 16in cylinder 0-4-0 saddle tank industrial shunting engine. These larger engines were popular with collieries and the steel industry, offering extra power over the 14in cylinders, though this was about the most power which could be employed with a 4-wheeled locomotive.
Among the last steam locomotives in industrial service 1929 built works number 1964 is presented here in CPC Oxford blue livery, modelling the locomotive in her final years at Corn Products in Trafford Park, Manchester during the mid-1970s. Last overhauled in 2015 number 1964 has served on several heritage lines and is currently based at the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway.
Andrew Barclay were able to offer a number of variations on the same basic design of locomotive, allowing purchasers to quickly obtain a locomotive suited to their needs. 1964 was built in 1929 and spent it's entire life around the chemical plants of the Trafford Park estate in Manchester, working at Brown & Polson and finally with Corn Products aka CPC in the late 1970s.
The work around Trafford Park required the engine to move short train loads of incoming materials and outgoing products to an from the nearby yards of the Manchester Ship Canal or mainline railway companies. A 16-inch cylinder engine was much better suited to these duties than the smaller 14 inch type and this engine was still gainfully employed in 1977, painted in an attractive (though often none-too-clean) blue livery with CPC United Kingdom lettering until finally being replaced by a BR class 08 shunter.
Following withdraw this well-known engine was preserved at the Manchester Museum of Science and Technology, but since 1984 has spent time at several smaller heritage railways including the Foxfield and Cholsey & Wallingford. Based at the Chasewater Railway when purchased by its' current owners 1964 has been restored to service on the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway at Ludborough in 2016.