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these are the engines of the kensal green gasworks

the kensal green gasworks was established in 1845 and worked until 1890 when a modernization created a small, 60cm line at the plant. the first engine was a decauville 5 ton 0-4-0T. it was numbered 2 (the number 1 being a standard gauge neilson 0-4-0T). then, in 1894 a bagnall inverted saddle tank 'iris' would be delivered. it presumably would not be numbered, as a second decauville would be delivered and numbered 3, named 'western' after the gasworks' original owner. In 1909, the gasworks line would be expanded and six years later a borsig 0-4-0t built in 1910 named 'nelson' after its original owner's company, Nelson Corporation. (the engine was purchased for construction of a reservoir). In 1916, the first decauville would be sold off to the ministry of munitions. After the first world war would end, the gasworks would purchase a Barclay 'E' class. In 1925, the gasworks would purchase a Sentinel 'BE' class and would later purchase another Sentinel in 1933 after the last decauville was scrapped, this one however being a 'convertible' class. it can also be presumed the bagnall was scrapped sometime between the purchase of nelson and the scrapping of the decauville.

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