Haulage by different locos with same number

[47296lastduff]

During lockdown I passed some time analysing my records for haulage by identically numbered British main line (or ex-main locos), with the rule that it had to be as carried at time of haulage. I excluded cases which did not match exactly (such as Castle class 7029 and Hymek D7029). I got to 37 matches, and while this is probably not a record, has anybody else on here done better?
Mine were:
Steam & class 33: 33001.
Steam & class 45: 12,28,72,45015,45110,45127.
Steam & class 45: 1501,47006,47202,47279,47298,47324,47327,47388,47584,47406,47656.
Steam & class 26: 5322.
Steam & class 37: 6998.
Steam & class 60: 60006,60007,60009,60019,60024,60034,60081.
Steam & class 68: 68012.
Steam & class 73: 73005,73114,73129.
Steam & class 82: 82003.
Steam & class 92: 92026.
Original class 70 & class 20: 20001.
Class 77 & class 27: 27001.
Class 76 & class 26: 26007,26040.

The only slightly dubious ones were 47388 & 47584, being temporary renumberings of 47324 at ELR galas, but they were the ones carried at the times of the rides.

 

[Blinkbonny]

You'd need to have some years under your belt to play this one!

I was around but I couldn't have afforded the fares.

 

[JonathanH]

It might help if someone posted which combinations remain feasible.

 

[SteveM70]

I’ll have had some Deltic / bubble car combinations but the details are lost in the depths of my mum and dad’s loft (if I’m lucky) or the tip (if I’m not)

 

[Bevan Price]

It would take me far too much time to check my equivalents, especially, for example which Peaks I had with TOPS numbers or with their pre-TOPS numbers. I know I had 73 Black 5s numbered between 45001-76 & 45101-50.
I also had 24 BR Standard Class 5 numbered between 73001-06 & 73101-46. (and had all the equivalent Class 73s)

 

[Cowley]

I’ll have had some Deltic / bubble car combinations but the details are lost in the depths of my mum and dad’s loft (if I’m lucky) or the tip (if I’m not)

Those are about the only ones I could think of too.

 

[Neptune]

Class 50 and pre renumbered class 114 DMBS’s were the same numbers too.

Both 50015 and 50019 exist in both classes although 1 of the DMU’s may retain the 53xxx number.

 

[xotGD]

I've not even had the kettle version of 47406 at the Great Central. So my total is zero.

 

[D1537]

The numbers 37271, 37272, 37273 and 37274 have been carried by two different Class 37s.

I've had both 37272s, but unfortunately one was numbered 37304 at the time!

 

[Taunton]

I’ll have had some Deltic / bubble car combinations

I saw the two 55015s side by side at Edinburgh Waverley in the mid-1970s.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

I've had 4 (Great Gable) and 4 (Snowdon); also 8 (Penyghent) and 8 (Hurricane).

Bringing trams into the equation means 1010, 1015 and 1023 as both class 52 and Metrolink versions, and the 08/M5000 pairings of 3018/3022/3023/3030/3079/3101.

However the winner is the threesome of:
213 (called Andania by BR)
213 (called Sister Mary Potter by Nottingham Council)
and
213 (called many rude words by folk going to Heathrow on the Piccadilly Line.

And for consecutive moves, 37418 from Bury to Rawtenstall on the ELR route for 37418 back again on the First Manchester 474 bus service.

 

[Western Sunset]

But the OP explicitly doesn't allow a prefixed number, so would that exclude the bubble-cars with Deltics?

 

[chorleyjeff]

During lockdown I passed some time analysing my records for haulage by identically numbered British main line (or ex-main locos), with the rule that it had to be as carried at time of haulage. I excluded cases which did not match exactly (such as Castle class 7029 and Hymek D7029). I got to 37 matches, and while this is probably not a record, has anybody else on here done better?
Mine were:
Steam & class 33: 33001.
Steam & class 45: 12,28,72,45015,45110,45127.
Steam & class 45: 1501,47006,47202,47279,47298,47324,47327,47388,47584,47406,47656.
Steam & class 26: 5322.
Steam & class 37: 6998.
Steam & class 60: 60006,60007,60009,60019,60024,60034,60081.
Steam & class 68: 68012.
Steam & class 73: 73005,73114,73129.
Steam & class 82: 82003.
Steam & class 92: 92026.
Original class 70 & class 20: 20001.
Class 77 & class 27: 27001.
Class 76 & class 26: 26007,26040.

The only slightly dubious ones were 47388 & 47584, being temporary renumberings of 47324 at ELR galas, but they were the ones carried at the times of the rides.

If there was a type 4 diesel 47008 it would be very different to Preston's steam 47008 - a tiny 0F shunter.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

Are any of the class 43 warships still in existence? HST power cars also being class 43

 

[StephenHunter]

I’ll have had some Deltic / bubble car combinations but the details are lost in the depths of my mum and dad’s loft (if I’m lucky) or the tip (if I’m not)

Might be possible on a preserved railway to get both?

 

[43096]

Are any of the class 43 warships still in existence?

Nope! D821 and D832 are the Swindon built variety.

 

[Neptune]

Are any of the class 43 warships still in existence? HST power cars also being class 43

None of them received TOPS numbers so it wouldn’t be possible in any case even if any had survived.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

That's true. Was the only other combination I could think of apart from deltic and bubble car.

What about the MLVs and class 68 locos? Did the MLVs have stock numbers as 680xx as well as the unit numbers 90xx? MLVs often worked in multiple with CEP units on boat trains so they would count for haulage surely....

 

[madannie77]

The Southern MLVs were originally S68001 to S68010 before becoming 9001 to 9010, so if the S prefix is ignored, then it is a possibility.

 

[47296lastduff]

Bevan Price mentions having 97 class 5s (ex-LMS & BR Standard), so must have had a seriously high total of BR steam locos of all classes. I am deeply impressed.
I remember reading elsewhere of somebody else having all the A4 Pacifics except the one destroyed by a wartime bomb. Considering that some of them were virtually dedicated to the non-stop summer trains between KGX & EDB, that would take some doing.