The Route to Preservation following the end of Steam

60019 was also used in September 1966 the day after it worked the Edinburgh - York leg of a weekend A4 Farewell from Aberdeen (The Grampian) when it was used on a York - Healey Mills trip freight; on return to York Geoff Drury took possession on the footplate before it entered the shed for the last time.

 

I also have in my collection tickets from 60019s last runs in BR ownership

 

Strictly speaking one locomotive from the Corris Railway should be added to the pre-1900 GWR list.

 

Thank-you for posting this interesting table. The LSWR appears to have had the largest range of surviving pre-1900 types in 1958, though probably not the largest number of engines. I think the most numerous of those LSWR types would have been the M7, although many
of those were post-1900 build. Most of the M7s lasted into the 1960s.

Unlike the LSWR, the LMS and LNER constituents mostly had loco fleets whose overall numbers were dominated by goods engines. If you look at an Ian Allan abc from the 1950s, it is noticeable that the LMR and ER/NER sections had page after page listing 0-6-0s, including many from the late 19th Century. So lots of pre-1900 "2F" types from the Midland, L&Y and Caledonian, plus J10 (ex-GC), J15 (ex-GE), J21 & J25 (ex-NE) and J36 (ex-NB). The LNWR and pre-1900 GN 0-6-0s were extinct by the mid 1950s, and are notable omissions from the preservation record, although tank engine versions ("Coal tank" and J52) survive. The G&SWR and H&BR had also once had large fleets of 0-6-0s, but they were gone by 1939 and never made it into an Ian Allan abc!

When preservation schemes were becoming established in the 1960s, their initial loco (and carriage) choices were obviously constrained by the vagaries of what had or had not survived in main line service up until that time - prior to the later constraint of what did or did not get sent to Barry.