Metropolitan Met Vick Locos & Freight/Shunting

[RateTheFreight]

Evening all,

 

I made a somewhat knee jerk purchase at Warley today and ended up buying a discounted Heljan Metropolitan Met Vic loco (number 19 in Met livery).

 

Whilst I mostly model in N I'm in the throws of building a 4x1.5 inglenook style layout in OO that I plan to detail.

 

Back to the question, does anyone know of these locos working any freight or engineering trains during their service or being employed as shunters? If so, what RTR wagons could I use on the aforementioned layout.

 

I'm a fan of 'rule 1' but always like to have some prototypical basis where I can.

 

G

[PatB]

Whilst I'm no expert and would be happy to be corrected, I would think engineering trains unlikely as, at the work site at least, I'd expect the juice to be turned off.

[SRman]

Most of the enginering trains would have been steam hauled in older times, and battery loco ('slug') hauled in modern times.

[Guy Rixon]

From 1909, the Met had a tiny freight-depot at Vine Street, near Farringdon. Trains to this depot were worked by electric locomotives.

 

 

There was also an electrically-hauled freight service to the Chiltern Court flats, next to Baker Street station. There was a dedicated siding at Baker Street. Coal was supplied and refuse removed. I think this was not, technically a private siding as the Met owned the flats.