History of LMS 8F 48173

48624 went to Peak Rail, not that long before, in July 1981 so I'd be surprised that they wanted another. Many Barry locos carried "Reserved for......." or even "Sold to....." when it was no more than someone's fanciful dream. It wouldn't be the first publication to pick up 'duff' information from these notations.
Cheers,
Ray.

 

There were a lot of groups at Barry in the 1970s and were did talk to each other. We generally knew, whatever was painted on the side, which engines had genuine followers and which didn't, although even the serious ones weren't always successful. Some simply failed, despite their best efforts, to raise the cash, and at least one group was making progress only to have the engine bought out by someone else.

 

It’s got 44806 old tank now.

 

I beleive this tank has been acquired for parts only. The intention is to build a brand new tank. see this facebook picture

https://www.facebook.com/5683975868...7179321671708/687179721671668/?type=3&theater

 

I'm surprised there are many parts on it - I would have expected them all to have been stripped off for use on 44806's new tender body. After all, the NYMR doesn't have a spare Stanier tender that it can rob for parts. It might have some spare Stanier motion, if it hasn't sold it. I was a Tyseley when 5428 was prepared to move from there to the NYMR in the mid-70s and we craned some spare motion into the tender - it wassaid to be from a Black 5 but looked to me as though it from a 8F

 

The NYMR definitely had a spare set of rods back in the seventies. The trouble was, they were from a long wheelbase one and only 44767 of this type survives. Whether they ended up in the custodianship of 44767's owners, I don't know.

 

Surely that applies only to trailing coupling rods, Steve? There were two lengths of connecting rods, the early ones being four inches longer, and there were two different combination levers, union links and crosshead droparms (the Vulcan built ones used the Horwich type, but all others , including the Vulcan batch from 5075, had straight, fluted combination levers). These would apply to 5000 and 5025 only.