Works to first allocation

A few years back I asked which locos went the furthest from their final shed to the scrap yard and cited a C&HPR J94 which went to Cashmore's at Newport.

I was wondering which locos had the furthest to travel from where they were built to their initial shed. For example were any Brighton built Standards ever sent direct to the NE or Sc Regions?

 

I'd suggest one of the USA built 0-6-2ts for the Barry Rly.

Or if you want a sensible answer in the sprit of the post, weren't some GWR panniers built in Scotland? Certainl Warships and Class 22 were.

 

An interesting question, with the usual caveats the brdatabase will hold lots of info.

Just as a quick sample http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=80126&loco=80126

BR standard 4 80126 one of 130 built at Brighton and a regular in Bill Anderson's photos of the Killin branch went straight to Perth where it spent all of it's 11 year career. I'm sure a search of the db will reveal a lot more.

edit :- of course if you include the USA built locos as per @Reading General nothing British can compete !

Scott

 

Not sure if any GWR panniers were built in Scotland. Some 94xxs, including survivor 9466, were built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn in Newcastle

At the other end of the scale, a number of 80xxx tanks only had to travel the short distance across the throat of Brighton station. Both 80150 (awaiting restoration at the Mid Hants) and 80151 (hopefully back in action on the Bluebell by the end of the year) began their working lives with a short trip from Brighton Works to 75A

 

Back to the brdatabase --- 100 of the 57xx Panniers are shown as built by NBL in Glasgow.

A great resource well worth looking at .

 

Slightly deviating from the question, I wonder what the least travelled loco was? My money is on Hudswell Clarke No.1309/1917 'Henry de Lacy II' Built at Hudswell's in Hunslet, it spent all its life at Kirkstall Forge, which is about 8 miles. As far as I know, it never left Kirkstall, except perhaps for repair back at Hudswell Clarke until it travelled back to Hunslet and preservation on the Middleton Railway, another 8 mile journey. There may be a less travelled loco but I can't think of one, certainly on the standard gauge.

 

Just taking that a stage further Steve, some of the works shunters would have lived a very sheltered life if built in the place of their employment, the 4 wheel tank, "Vulcan" springs to mind.

Cheers,

Alan

 

Least travelled new loco has got to be Crewe Works to Crewe North.

 

But Vulcan doesn't win as it has travelled further in preservation. I'm saying the greatest distance the loco has ever been from its place of build is 8 miles..

 

I could disagree with you there. What about the Brighton built, Brighton allocated Standard 4 tanks?

Peter James

 

But of course the likes of RSH, Beyer etc were exporting locomotives all over the world. Anything that stayed in the UK was strictly parochial...

On least travelled, possibly the Swindon works 0-6-4 crane tanks might be contenders, but I think they were occasionally used off site. Pretty sure I've seen a photo of one working at Paddington.

 

Edit: already answered

 

Aye, could be a job for the tape measure.

 

Inchicore works shunter "Sambo" would be a contender for least travelled. Built there 1912 and used there all it's career, until 1962 not even being numbered and scrapped there

 

A few of the Brighton built Standard 4 tanks went, new, to Kittybrewster.

 

Amongst still existing locos, for furthest travelled to first depot, and least travelled thereafter, I'd suggest little H199 - built at Avonside, Bristol in 1875; transported 12,000 miles to New Zealand where it was allocated to Cross Creek depot; from there it worked the next 90-odd years of its life up and down over three miles of line to and from Summit station; and is now preserved in Featherstone, about two miles from its home and about 12,000 miles from its birth place.



Fell locomotive H199 by Tom James, on Flickr

Tom