All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –December 1961

All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –December 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 09’s, Doncaster building class 85 electric locomotives, Derby building class 46 “Peaks”, Crewe building class 08’s, class 45 “Peaks” and class 52 “Westerns” and Swindon building class 03’s. Locomotive contractors were also in production with English Electric building at Vulcan Foundry 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 Yorkshire Engine Co. were building class 02’s.

New locomotives:
Unclassified –
Class 02 – D2869
Class 03 – D2175/76/77
Class 09 – D4110/11/12
Class 10 – D4080
Class 20 – D8102/03/04/05/06/07/08/09
Class 25 – D5168/69/70
Class 27 – D5363/64/65
Class 30 – D5826/27/28
Class 33 – D6579/80/81/82
Class 35 – D7011/12/13/14/15
Class 40 – D368/69/70
Class 43 – D857 Undaunted, D858 Valorous
Class 45 – D130/31/32/33/34/35/36/37
Class 46 – D142/44/45/46/47/48/49/50
Class 52 – D1000 Western Enterprise
Class 55 – D9019
Class 85 – E3061/62

Notable steam withdrawals include Great Western Railway 2-6-2T 5542, London and North Eastern K4 2-6-0 61994 The Great Marquess both now preserved.

D2175 (03175) – 03175_1975_08_Norwich | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D8107 (20107) – 20107_1976_03_Millerhill | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D5365 (27019) – 27019_1976_08_Dundee | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D5826 (31293) – 31293_1975_08_Worcester | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D130 (45148) – 45148_1976_03_Nottingham | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D131 (45074) – 45074_1976_10_Derby | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D132 (45075) – 45075_1980_03_Nuneaton | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D135 (45149) – 45149_1976_02_Nottingham | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D142 (46005) – 46005_1977_08_Derby | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D144 (46007) – 46007_1977_07_Sheffield | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D146 (46009) – 46009_1979_04_Barnt_Green | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D147 (46010) – 46010_1979_09_Derby | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D149 (46012) – 46012_1979_05_Birmingham | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
D9019 (55019) – 55019_1979_04_Kings_Cross | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
5542 - 5542_0806_Winchcombe | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
61994 – 61994_1011_Quorn2 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!