All Our Yesterdays – 60 Years Ago –February 1959
Sixty years ago the last 9F 2-10-0 Standard class steam locomotives were still in production, diesel shunter production was in full swing as was delivery of the Pilot Scheme mainline locomotives and the first of the production series of Brush Type 2's (class 30).
New Locomotives
Class 03 – D2036/37/38/52/82
Class 05 – D2584
Class 06 – D2420/21
Class 08 – D3687/88, D3731/32, D3811/12/13/14
Class 09 – D3665/66/67/68/69
Class 10 – D3651
Class 21 – D6104
Class 22 – D6301/02
Class 24 – D5007/08
Class 26 – D5317
Class 28 – D5710/11
Class 30 – D5520
Class 71 – E5002
New Diesel Multiple Units
Metro Cammell (Class 102) –E51425/26/27/35/36/95/96/97, E51505/06, E59523/24/25/26
Cravens (Class 105) – E51471/72, Sc51473/74/75, E56460/61, Sc56462/63/64
BR Derby (Class 108) – M50947/48/49/50/51/52/53, M56230/31/32/33/34/35/36
Gloucester RCW (Class 119) – W51062/63/90/91, W59418/19
Swindon Cross Country (Class 120) – W50692/93, W59298/99
BR Derby (Class 125) – E50995/96/97/98/99, E51161/62/63/64/65, E59456/57/58/59/60
Park Royal Railbus – Sc79970
In the month one hundred and twenty steam locomotives were withdrawn, forty two being over fifty years old with London Brighton and South Coast Railway E1R Class 0-6-2T 32135 being the oldest, having entering traffic in January 1879 as a 0-6-0T (rebuilt in the 1928 as a 0-6-2T) and condemned eighty years later The majority of these withdrawals were the older secondary main line and branch line passenger engines, steam shunting engines and older freight engines being displaced by the continued delivery of the last of the 9F standards, the pilot scheme main line diesels, diesel multiple units and diesel shunting engines. Forty three engines condemned were built post the 1923 grouping and one was built post nationalisation in 1948, this being Great Western Railway 0-6-0PT 7438 at only ten years old.
A number I have photographed later in life and can be found in this collection. As always feedback and comments welcome.
D2037 (03037) -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6180072833/
D2420 (06003) –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6651902637/
D3665 (09001) –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6581045861/
D3669 (09005) –
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/22859102354/
D3731 (08564) –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8799690703/
D3732 (08565) –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5887553193/
D5520 (31102) –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/12045512133/
E50999 -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8457032159/
M51427 -
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/26812700742/
Sc51473 –
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/16067749271/
E56462 -
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/29613623856/
