All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –August 1961

Extracts from the RCTS Railway Observer from 50 years ago.

Diesel and Electric locomotive building was in full swing with British Railways workshops at Darlington building class 10’s and class 25’s, Horwich building class 08’s, Doncaster building class 03’s and class 85 electric locomotives, Derby building class 45 “Peaks”, Crewe building class 45 “Peaks” and Swindon building class 03’s. Locomotive contractors were also in production with English Electric building at Vulcan Foundry class 37’s, class 40’s and class 55 Deltics. Also English Electric were building at the Robert Stephensons and Hawthorn works, Darlington class 20’s. Beyer Peacock at Manchester were building class 35 Hymek’s, Brush were building class 30’s (31’s) at Loughborough, North British Locomotive Co. at Glasgow were building class 43’s, the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. were building class 27 and class 33’s and Drewry were building class 04’s at the Robert Stephensons and Hawthorn works Darlington.

New locomotives:
Class 03 – D2373/74/75/76/95/96
Class 04 – D2336/37
Class 08 – D4026/27/95/96
Class 10 – D4074
Class 20 – D8079/80/81/82
Class 25 – D5160
Class 27 – D5350/51
Class 30 – D5810/11/12
Class 33 – D6565/66
Class 35 – D7003/04
Class 37 – D6724/25
Class 40 – D355/56/57
Class 43 – D853 Thruster
Class 45 – D42/43/44/45, D111/12/13/14/15/16/17
Class 55 – D9011
Class 85 – E3056

Notable steam withdrawals included the first Southern Railway Lord Nelson 4-6-0 30858 Lord Duncan and non accident damaged London Midland and Scottish Railway Jubilee 4-6-0 45619 Nigeria

On the 14th August 1961 Derby works contained five Class 40 locomotives for repair, D220/23/26/33/88.

Cambridge Street stabling and fuelling point just north of St Pancras became fully operational.

On the 7th August 1961 class 40 D249 working an Up freight overran the Up Loop at Granthouse, ran through the goods shed and demolished much of the Up side station buildings.

A number of the above were photographed later in life and can be found in this collection. As always feedback and comments welcome

D8080 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5928739355/
D5350 (27004) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6004059469/
D5810 (31280) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5911429218/
D356 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5543500432/
D42 (45034) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5658982132/
D43 (45107) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5932041257/
D44 (45035) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5530091689/
D45 (45036) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5530097735/
D113 (45128) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5932044399/
D116 (45103) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6007681642/
D117 (45130) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6007129699/
D9011 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5575691375/