Sentinel Steam Shunter

"Musketeer" is a Sentinel 100 HP 'BE Type' (chain-driven) vertical-boiler industrial strength steam locomotive built in 1946 to work the Royal Ordnance Factory in Hooton, Wirral. It was purchased in 1958 by Thomas E. Gray Ltd. to shunt lime trucks from the Isham Quarries in Northamptonshire. Gray named the blue-liveried locomotive "Musketeer" to commemorate the Royal Navy ship that he served aboard during the Second World War. The coal-powered steam locomotive was retired in 1975 to the Northhamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust, Hunsbury Hill, Northants, where it is on static display.