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Loved the pic of 85031 and 83009 at night at Crewe - brought back at lot of memories of Crewe overnighters in the late 70s and 80s. - wonderful!

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The year that I started commuting to school by rail on the GE. I remember that the brand new 309s just seemed so cool when they raced past.
 
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All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago – March 1967

Locomotive building was being undertaken as follows, English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry were delivering the final batch of Class 20’s. The Brush Falcon Works at Loughborough were delivering Class 47’s and British Rail, Derby Works were delivering Class 25’s

New locomotives:
Class 25 – D7669/73/74

Doncaster Works was undertaking replacement of the unreliable Mirrlees JVS12T 1250bhp engine in the Brush Type 2 fleet with a 1470bhp English Electric 12SVT engine with the following being completed this month;

D5569, D5600/24/47/63/93, D5801/04/11/16

Main line diesel and electric production in the month dropped to only three with no deliveries this month of class 20’s or 47’s. Steam withdrawals in the month increased significantly from fifty six to eighty. With less than two years to go steady inroads were now being made into all the remaining steam classes. With the bulk of the remaining steam fleet being made up of Stanier Black Fives, Stanier 8F’s and BR Standards it was to be expected that withdrawals of these types would now form a significant element of the monthly withdrawals. In March fifteen Black Fives, twenty four 8F’s and twelve BR Standards were condemned. This month would see the slaughter continue of the small or non-standard diesel shunter fleet with thirty eight locomotives withdrawn.

D5624 (31200) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5708434758/
D5663 (31236) – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/29297512316/
D5801 (31271) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/11128593243/
D7669 (25319) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/11416045504/
 
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All Our Yesterdays – 40 Years Ago – March 1977

New Locomotives
43044/45/46/47/48, 56005/14/15

Locomotives Withdrawn
08596

Locomotives Stored:
08003/53/59, 08211 08772

Locomotives Modified
Dual Brake Fitted:
20200, 25117/45/84, 37068

Air brake fitted and vacuum brake removed
08460, 08517

For the League Cup Final Replay at Hillsborough on the 16th March 1977 British Rail provided ten special trains from Liverpool for Everton football fans all routed by Woodhead and hauled by 40019/31/42/55/93, 40105/06/16, 47345 plus one unrecorded locomotive.

A number of the above I photographed during there careers and can be found in this collection. As always feedback and comments welcome

08059 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/14560418963/
08460 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8296750480/
08460 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/12231844696/
08772 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/29828772481/
25145 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6849647082/
25145 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/15222066035/
40019 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5558998460/
40042 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5593261940/
40093 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/28719934501/
40105 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/15336308160/
40106 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/32111943092/
47345 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5860166324/
56005 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/9291017148/
56014 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6331243626/
 
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All Our Yesterdays – 35 Years Ago – March 1982

New Locomotives
43187, 56105

Locomotives Withdrawn
08362, 25085, 31241, 40115/30/32/40, 46022/38

Locomotives Named
37012 Loch Rannoch, 47404 Hadrian, 47461 Charles Rennie Mackintosh

A number of the above I photographed during their careers and can be found in this collection. As always feedback and comments welcome.

40132 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/32378740642/
43187 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/29960547613/
46022 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/16775753658/
46022 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6817510872/
46038 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/16144251902/
46038 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6398309585/
46038 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/29070569641/
47404 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5545516901/
47461 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6827944607/
47461 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/15580419904/
 
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Traction Changes – March 2017.

New: 68026/27, 70811/13, 88001/3/04/05/06/07/08/09/10
Stored: 37612/88, 60019/74/92, 66058/60/68*/86*, 66172, 67020*/28, 70018/20*
*Subsequently reinstated
Reinstated: 66114/19/86, 70803, 90020
Exported: 92003/22/26

A number of the above can be seen in this collection

37179 (37612) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6064727778/
37205 (37688) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/14416211982/
60019 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/9338818003/
60074 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/9770026884/
60092 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/14026220462/
66058 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/12985080714/
66060 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/30929979795/
66068 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8709744736/
66086 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6157635175/
66119 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6115355178/
66172 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/10182011364/
67028 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/31066450092/
70020 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/21542686361/
90020 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/7708993462/
92003 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6618500071/
 
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All Our Yesterdays – 60 Years Ago –April 1957

Sixty years ago Standard class steam locomotives were still in production with sixteen locomotives delivered in the month. Diesel shunter production was progressing at a steady rate with six locomotives delivered in the month. There was also an increasing flow of new diesel multiple units.

New Locomotives
Standard Class 5 4-6-0 – 73150/51/67/68/69/70
Standard Class 4 4-6-0 – 75058/59
Standard Class 4 2-6-0 – 76084/85
Standard Class 2 2-6-2T – 84023/24/25/26
Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 – 92096, 92127/28/29/30
Class 04 – 11220/21/22/23/24/25 (D2250/51/52/53/54/55)
Class 08 – 13341/42/43/44/45/46 (D3341/42/43/44/45/46)
New Diesel Multiple Units
Swindon Inter City – Sc79106/07/65/66/67/68, Sc79445/46/47
Metro Cammell (Class 101) – E50194/95/96/97/98/99, E50205/06, E59071/72/84/85, E56050/51/57/58
BRCW (Class 104) – M50420/21/24/25, M59132/33
Cravens (Class 105) – E50378/79/80, E56133/34/35
Metro-Cammell (Class 111) – M50134/35/36/37, M56090/91/92/93
BR Derby (Class 114) – E50047, E56047
BR Derby (Class 116) – W50050/51/92/93, W59000/01

In the month forty six steam locomotives were withdrawn, twenty five being over fifty years old with London Brighton and South Coast Railway E1R Class 0-6-2T 32695 being the oldest, having been built at Brighton Works, entering traffic in September 1876 and condemned eighty years later. The majority of these withdrawals were the older main line secondary passenger engines and freight engines who were at the bottom of the cascade of power from the continued delivery of the Standards and Diesel Multiple Units. Only five locomotives condemned were Post Grouping designs, namely an unremarkable London Midland and Scottish Railway 7F, 0-8-0 class, two London Midland and Scottish Railway 2-6-0-0-6-2T Garret (being replaced by the far more modern a versatile Standard 9F) and two Great Western Railway tank engines (a 14xx 0-4-2T and a 51xx 2-6-2T)

D3342 (08272) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5894388151/
E56051 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/14461853403/
Sc79166 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6740747343/
 
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All Our Yesterdays – 55 Years Ago –April 1962

Diesel and Electric locomotive building was in full swing with British Railways workshops at Darlington building class 08s, 10s and class 25s, Horwich building class 08s, Doncaster building class 85 electric locomotives, Derby building class 46 “Peaks”, Crewe building class 45 “Peaks”, and Swindon building class 03s and class 52s Westerns. Locomotive contractors were also in production with English Electric building at Vulcan Foundry class 37s and class 40s. Also English Electric were building at the Robert Stephensons and Hawthorn works, Darlington class 20s. Beyer Peacock at Manchester were building class 35 Hymeks, Brush were building class 30s (31s) at Loughborough, North British Locomotive Co. at Glasgow were building a class 22s and class 43s and the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. were building class 27 and class 33’s.

New locomotives:
Class 03 – D2184
Class 08 – D4125/26/27/28/58/59/60/61
Class 10 – D4091
Class 20 – D8124/25
Class 22 – D6339/40
Class 25 – D5175
Class 27 – D5380/81/82/83
Class 30 – D5835/36/37/38
Class 33 – D6595/96
Class 35 – D7027/28/29/30/31
Class 37 – D6735/36
Class 40 – D386/87/88
Class 43 – D863 Warrior
Class 45 – D64/65/66
Class 46 – D162/63/64
Class 52 - -D1003 Western Pioneer
Class 85 – E3066

Locomotives Named:

D163 Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry, D215 Aquitania, D231 Sylvania, D234 Accra, D235 Apapa,

In the month one hundred and twenty five steam locomotives were withdrawn with 1962 seeing a real start being made on some of the more iconic designs as well as further inroads into the post World War Two constructed pre nationalisation designs of the GWR, LMS and LNER. This month would see further post war built LMS Ivatt 2-6-0’s and LNER B1 4-6-0’s and J72 tanks withdrawn. Two GWR 45xx 2-6-2T 5521 and 5572 withdrawn this month escaped being broken up and are still in existence.

The North British Locomotive Co. went into liquidation on the 4th April 1962.

Class 21 NBL Type 2 D6127 badly fire damaged in March was stored and would never work again, however it was not officially withdrawn until December 1967 and broken up in April 1968.

A number of the above were photographed later in life and can be found in this collection. As always feedback and comments welcome

5521 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/30057915720/
5572 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5993162932/
D5835 (31302) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5643315161/
D5838 (31305) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6311509580/
D6735 (37035) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6064180459/
D6736 (37605) – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/20207073339/
D387 (40187) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/7566433534/
D64 (45045) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6963633779/
D65 (45111) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5530093559/
D66 (45146) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/12606500395/
D163 (46026) – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/16415360692/
E3066 (85011) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/32424782243/
 
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All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago – April 1967

Locomotive building was being undertaken as follows, English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry were delivering the final batch of Class 20’s. The Brush Falcon Works at Loughborough were delivering Class 47’s and British Rail, Derby Works were delivering Class 25’s

New locomotives:
Class 20 – D8198/99, D8300/01/02/03/04/05/06
Class 25 – D7675/76/77

Doncaster Works was undertaking replacement of the unreliable Mirrlees JVS12T 1250bhp engine in the Brush Type 2 fleet with a 1470bhp English Electric 12SVT engine with the following being completed this month;

D5520, D5603/35/99, D5808/10/19/20/22

Main line diesel and electric production in the month increased to twelve, however it also included the last of the Class 25 fleet. Steam withdrawals in the month increased significantly from eighty to one hundred and five. With only eighteen months to go steady inroads were now being made into all the remaining steam classes. With the bulk of the remaining steam fleet being made up of Stanier Black Fives, Stanier 8F’s and BR Standards it was to be expected that withdrawals of these types would now form a significant element of the monthly withdrawals. In April fourteen Black Fives, twenty two 8F’s and twenty three BR Standards were condemned including four Britannia’s. However the slaughter of the small or non-standard diesel shunter fleet had a temporary pause with only four locomotives condemned.

D8301 (20201) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5542388350/
D8305 (20205) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/25625416611/
D5520 (31102) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/12045512133/
D5810 (31280) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5911429218/
 
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