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Wolverton Mk1's

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Deltic1

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Hi everyone,

Does anyone know which years they started and finished building Mk1's at Wolverton? As far as I can tell it is 1954 - 1962.
 
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The earliest I can find was lot 30073 which was SK Nos 24437-24446 built in 1953.

The latest is lot 30736 which were SLC (sleeper composite) Nos 2446-2454 built 1963-64.

These are just from a quick glance through a book I have.
 

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The earliest I can find was lot 30073 which was SK Nos 24437-24446 built in 1953.

The latest is lot 30736 which were SLC (sleeper composite) Nos 2446-2454 built 1963-64.

These are just from a quick glance through a book I have.
Thanks very much for the infomation dubscottie, it's a big help.
 

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I've no wish to undermine the information provided by dubscottie, but I think there may be an earlier batch. Lot No. 30025 Completed May 1952 type BSK nos. 34095-224.
 

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I've no wish to undermine the information provided by dubscottie, but I think there may be an earlier batch. Lot No. 30025 Completed May 1952 type BSK nos. 34095-224.

You are right. I only had a quick scan through the book and missed those!
 

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Broadly every major carriage works, and an equal number of the private builders, seem to have built BR Mk 1 stock in pretty much the same timeframe to within a year or two. Before about 1951-2 they were still building company designs (often still with wooden framing, ostensibly to use up seasoned timber stocks efficiently, and to provide work for long-serving carpenters, the safety aspects of a greenhouse-on-wheels be blowed), and after about 1963-4 Beeching had sussed that this number of workshops was grossly inefficient (there was a specific part of his study about workshops), hence the Mk 2 that came along at that point was wholly Derby built, and EMUs were concentrated at York.
 
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