All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –July 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 and class 42’s. Locomotive contractors were also in production with English Electric building at Vulcan Foundry class 37’s, class 40’s, class 55 Deltics and class 83 electric locomotives. 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 22’s and 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 – D2198/99, D2372/93/94
Class 04 – D2331/32/33/34/35
Class 08 – D4024/25
Class 10 – D4072
Class 20 – D8071/72/73/74/75/76/77/78
Class 22 – D6336
Class 25 – D5157/58/59
Class 27 – D5348/49
Class 30 – D5805/06/07/08/09
Class 33 – D6560/61/62/63/64
Class 35 – D7001/02
Class 37 – D6721/22/23
Class 40 – D324, D352/53/54
Class 42 – D869 Zest
Class 43 – D851 Temeraire, D852 Tenacious
Class 45 – D33/34/35/36/37/38/39/40/41, D107/08/09/10
Class 55 – D9008, D9009 Alycidon, D9010
Class 83 – E3035
Class 85 – E3059/60

Notable steam withdrawals was the last LMS 4P 4-4-0 compound 41168.

Hymek D7003 in grey undercoat worked a Manchester – Derby test train of ten coaches on the 5th July 1961.

Class 40’s D218 and D221 were named Carmania and Ivernia respectively as they passed through Crewe works.

D2199 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5919167429/
D8072 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5919159343/
D5349 (27003) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5919156197/
D5805 (31275) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5911433644/
D5806 (31276) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5910872931/
D6564 (33046) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5907346403/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5907349651/
D6722 (37608) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5648629877/
D6723 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5859332646/
D218 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5668756564/
D35 (45117) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5530080609/
D38 (45032) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5900029104/
D40 (45133) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5900027444/
D41 (45147) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5900031276/
D107 (45120) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5900025382/
D9008 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5656127129/
D9009 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5919723918/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5823768174/
D9010 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5668746878/