All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –June 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, 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. British Thompson and Houston were building class 81 electric locomotives, 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 33’s and delivered the first class 27 and Drewry were building class 04’s at the Robert Stephensons and Hawthorn works Darlington.

New locomotives:
Unclassified –
Class 03 – D2195/96/97, D2390/91/92
Class 04 – D2326/28/29/30
Class 08 – D4018/19/20/21/22/23
Class 10 – D4070/71
Class 20 – D8054/63/64/65/66/67/68/69/70
Class 25 – D5155/56
Class 27 – D5347
Class 30 – D5800/01/02/03/04
Class 33 – D6556/57/58/59
Class 37 – D6716/18/19/20
Class 40 – D348/49/50/51
Class 43 – D850 Swift
Class 45 – D31/32, D103/04/05/06
Class 55 – D9006, D9007 Pinza
Class 81 – E3021

Notable steam withdrawals was the first rebuilt LMS Patriot 4-6-0 45514 Holyhead.

A number of the Princess Royal 4-6-2 Pacific’s (46200/01-12) put into store in march 1961 have been reinstated with 46200/03/05/06/09 all noted in traffic in June 1961.

Hymek D7002 in grey undercoat worked a Manchester – Derby test train of ten coaches on the 20th June 1961.

The first BRCW Type 2 (class 27) D5347 arrived at Doncaster works for acceptance trails on the 30th June 1961.

D4018 (08850) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5554726415/
D8067 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5775649398/
D8068 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5775647556/
D8070 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5776843931/
D5156 (25006) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5776838295/
D5800 (31270) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5779335739/
D5801 (31271) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5779885856/
D6718 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5784061071/
D31 (45030) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5784058177/
D103 (45062) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5785269968/
D105 (45064) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5785267576/
D9007 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5786589911/