B.R. Standard class tender locomotives

Collections of photos of the B.R. standards

This collection features the Clan class pacifics 72000-72001 built December 1951
Including this photo of 72000 Clan Buchanan and a Stanier Princess Coronation loco unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/33n264ed

Full collection starts here
72000 Clan Buchanan
https://tinyurl.com/2jcxp8sp
72001 Clan Cameron
https://tinyurl.com/33cr4suk

Neil

 

Collections of photos of the B.R. standards

This collection features 71000 Duke of Gloucester
Including 1 new photo
71000 Duke of Gloucester at one of the Crewe sheds Crewe July 1954
https://tinyurl.com/8cmvsmx6

Full collection starts here
71000 Duke of Gloucester at Crewe North
https://tinyurl.com/mtadwfky

Neil

 

1/28 = Crewe [duplicates 6/28

 

Collections of photos of the B.R. standards

This collection features the Clan class pacifics 72002 to 72009 built 1952

Including this photo of
72009 Clan Stewart at Shrewsbury, possibly a running in turn from Crewe works?
https://tinyurl.com/bdf7hbf8

Full collection of over 70 photos starts here with
72002 Clan Campbell at Carstairs
https://tinyurl.com/bddmjyvf

Neil

 

18 / 72 = Glasgow St Enoch ?

22 / 72 = Wigan North Western ?

26 / 72 = Edinburgh Waverley

49 / 72 = St Margarets shed

 

The British Railways Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 is one of the 12 standard classes of steam locomotive built by British Railways in the 1950s. It was essentially a development of the LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 ("Black Five"). A total of 172 were built between 1951 and 1957.
William Stanier's Black Five had been the most successful mixed-traffic type in Great Britain. Construction of the Black Fives had started in 1934 and continued past nationalisation to 1951. A new set of 'standard' locomotives was to be built by British Railways, based on LMS designs and incorporating modern ideas.
In particular, the Standard design incorporated features designed to make disposal of the engine after a working "turn" easier: a self-cleaning smokebox and a rocking grate removed the necessity for crews to undertake dirty and strenuous duties at the end of a long shift. This was a necessary investment with the ever-increasing costs of labour following the Second World War.
The original design proposal for the class 5 locomotive had a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement, similar in concept to the Bulleid Light Pacifics that performed impressively during the 1948 Locomotive Exchanges. However this was deemed unnecessarily large and costly for a class 5 power requirement, so the successful LMS Class 5 4-6-0 design was used as the basis instead. The pacific design went on to be enlarged and used for the BR Standard Class 6.
The design work was done at the ex-LNER Doncaster Works but the bulk of the construction was done at Derby Works. The locomotive featured a BR standard boiler very similar in dimensions to the Stanier Type 3B fitted to the Black Fives, but made from manganese steel instead of nickel steel. The most obvious visible changes were a higher running plate, slightly enlarged driving wheels (from 6 ft 0 in (1.829 m) to 6 ft 2 in (1.880 m)), increased cylinder bore (from 18½ in (457 mm) to 19 in(483 mm)), a standard cab with external pipework and the regulator gland on the driver's side of the boiler below the dome. Many of these changes were to reduce maintenance or to incorporate standard components that could be shared between other standard classes.
The first of the class, 73000, was outshopped from Derby in April 1951 and 30 were in service by January 1952. There was then a gap in construction before Derby resumed building its remaining 100 engines. 42 were built at Doncaster, starting in August 1955 and finishing in May 1957, with Derby's last engine following a month later.
Thirty engines, numbers 73125 to 73154, were built with Caprotti valve gear and poppet valves.
These locomotives had a trouble-free introduction in comparison to several of the other Standard classes and were used interchangeably with the pre-nationalisation class 5 engines they supplemented. They were utilised as the haulage power on duties varying from fast passenger trains to slow unfitted freight trains, displaying their versatility.
Different regional allocations had differing tender designs, with locomotives assigned to the Southern Region having tenders with high water capacity to make up for the lack of water troughs.
Like the "Clan" class locomotives, Standard 5s, with their high-stepped running board, were partly conceived to be more economical and serviceable replacements for the Bulleid Pacific, and the Standard Class 5 were fast, they could really fly with good steam, easily to just under 100mph in the view of many engine drivers. Like the Clans, which could only manage one more carriage on an express than a 'Five' the Standard Fives took a long time to shake down, and only started to really pull when different firing techniques, which allowed them to steam using poor quality coal were developed. They pulled much of the traffic on the last express lines for steam in the mid and late 1960s: Edinburgh-Aberdeen, London- Southampton-Bournemouth- Weymouth and local express traffic in the North and Midlands around Sheffield and Leeds. They were also used on the locals between Liverpool, Manchester and Blackpool, some steam hauled to the last day of steam in 1968.

In 1959, 20 of the Southern Region locomotives were named, the names being transferred from SR King Arthur class locos that were then being withdrawn. These were:
73080 Merlin 73081 Excalibur 73082 Camelot 73083 Pendragon 73084 Tintagel 73085 Melisande 73086 The Green Knight 73087 Linette 73088 Joyous Gard 73089 Maid of Astolat
73110 The Red Knight 73111 King Uther 73112 Morgan Le Fay 73113 Lyonnesse 73114 Etarre 73115 King Pellinore 73116 Iseult 73117 Vivien 73118 King Leodegrance 73119 Elaine

This first collection features 73000-73029 Built 1951 at Derby

Including this photo of
73020 & Bulleid Light Pacific 34021 unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/y4m7b36m

Full collection of 135 photos starts here with
73000
https://tinyurl.com/yk73ubek
to
73029
https://tinyurl.com/2p9hskbj

Neil

 

Another lovely selection of photos there Neil.

Pictures 128, 129 and 130 are all of 73029 in the down bay platform at Southampton Central. The loco carries one of Ron Cover (of Eastleigh Works) home made smokebox numberplates. In picture 129 can be seen the liner SS United States in the docks. She was (is?) the holder of the famous Blue Riband for the fastest liner crossing of the Atlantic

Peter

 

18 / 135 = Cambridge Street yard by St Pancras

53 / 135 = Upwey Bank

68 / 135 = St Pancras ?

 

Collection of photos of B.R. Standard 5F 4-6-0

This collection features 73030-73049 Built 1953 at Derby

Including this colour photo by Tony Gillett of
73039 & 43046 Chorley 13/7/67
https://tinyurl.com/2p9cn3zh

Full collection of over 65 photos starts here with
73030 at Bristol Barrow Road shed
https://tinyurl.com/5xn7sfd8
to
73049 at Winchester
https://tinyurl.com/mk6ns4pk

Neil

 

10/69 = Chester

17 / 69 = Eastleigh

22 / 69 = Vauxhall - I worked in the office block in the background

59 / 69 = Bath Green Park

 

Just a minor correction, Ron Cover worked in Eastleigh Depot, not the Loco Works.

A few locations to add -
15/135 73001 Eastleigh Depot
93/135 73020 Definitely Feltham Yard
95/135 73020 Possible Bournemouth Depot
126/135 73029 Eastleigh Duplicated by 132/135.

Cheers, Neil

 

Collection of photos of B.R. Standard 5F 4-6-0

This collection features 73050-73071 Built 1954 at Derby

Including now preserved 73050 seen here on charter duties in 1968
73050 and 73069 at Stalybridge on Saturday 27 April, 1968 with 1Z77 Manchester Rail Travel Society Severn Valley Railway Society North West Steam railtour from Birmingham
https://tinyurl.com/2r29jdh5

full collection of over 80 photos starts here with
73050
https://tinyurl.com/4dth5d43
To
73071
https://tinyurl.com/3jyzua9j

Neil

 

37 / 84 = Loco ID = 73078 not 73058

44 / 84 = Bournemouth Central

51 /84 = Eastleigh

74 / 84 = Bournemouth Central

76 / 84 = Dorchester West ?

 

84/84 - another Loco ID = 75073 (a long term S&D based loco) and not 73073. Location is Evercreech Junction

Peter

 

Collection of photos of B.R. Standard 5F 4-6-0

This collection features 73072-73079 Built 1955

Only 12 photos in this collection starting here with
73072 at Euston
https://tinyurl.com/4hfjaff7

Neil.

 

10 / 12 = Glasgow Queen Street

 

A few more locations to add -
18/83 73051 Basingstoke
50/83 73065 Bournemouth West
76/83 73069 Dorchester South.

Cheers, Neil

 

B.R. Standard Class locos : Standard 5F 4-6-0

This collection features 73080-73089 Built 1955 at Derby which are the locos named after former King Arthur class locos
Included in this collection is now preserved 73082 Camelot seen here at Waterloo in 1964

73082 Camelot reversing out of Waterloo with a lot of slipping and wheel spinning June 1964
https://tinyurl.com/mvyjb6a6

Full collection of over 55 photos starts here with
73080 Merlin (with permission from Nigel Kendall)
https://tinyurl.com/2p9h3evu
to
73089 Maid of Astolat Vauxhall
https://tinyurl.com/28xbefxj

Neil

 

B.R. Standard Class locos : Standard 5F 4-6-0

This collection features 73090–99 built 1955 at Derby73100-73109 Built 1955 at Doncaster

Including 6 new photos

73092 Brockenhurst
https://tinyurl.com/mjxr6day
73092 with quite a lot of chalk messages on the smokebox unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/vzc6udnu
73092 unknown locations
https://tinyurl.com/4m4cp4p3
https://tinyurl.com/5drv3649
73100 Glasgow Central
https://tinyurl.com/39zjd6f9
73109 unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/3zv7j43e

Neil

 

B.R. Standard Class locos : Standard 5 4-6-0

This collection features 73110-73119 built 1955 Doncaster the 2nd batch of named locos for BR Southern Region

Including this photo 73114 Etarre under the Nine Elms coaling tower c1961
https://tinyurl.com/yv9dzyx8

full collection of 89 photos starts here with
73110 & 73113 both with plates removed at Eastleigh works shed c1965
https://tinyurl.com/6hk3ztmx
to
73119 minus Elaine nameplates
https://tinyurl.com/mr2r2bkv

Neil