All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –October 1961

All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –October 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 class 85 electric locomotives, Derby building class 45 and the first class 46 “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 and class 82 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 27 and class 33’s, Yorkshire Engine Co. were building class 02’s, Drewry were building class 04’s at the Robert Stephensons and Hawthorn works Darlington and Hudswell Clark were building a batch of 0-6-0 diesel shunters

New locomotives:
Unclassified – D2513/14/15
Class 02 – D2861/62/63/64
Class 03 – D2379/80/81/99
Class 04 – D2339
Class 09 – D4101/02/03/04
Class 10 – D4076/77
Class 20 – D8089/91/92/93/94/95/96
Class 25 – D5164/65
Class 27 – D5356/57/58
Class 30 – D5817/18/19/20
Class 33 – D6571/72/74
Class 35 – D7006/07/08
Class 37 – D6729/30/31
Class 40 – D361/62/63/64
Class 43 – D855 Triumph
Class 45 – D46/48/49, D121/22/23/24/25
Class 46 – D138
Class 55 – D9015 Tulyar, D9016
Class 82 – E3054
Class 85 – E3063

Notable steam withdrawals included the first four Stanier Pacifics, Princess Royal 4-6-2’s 46204/10/11/12 and Southern Railway N15 King Arthur 4-6-0 30777 Sir Lamiel.

The twenty Metro–Vic Co-Bo type 2 locomotives (class 28) D5700 – D5719 are being returned to the makers works at Dunkinfield (Manchester) for modifications and overhaul and by the 20th October 1961 all but D5703/04/07/08/09/10/12/13/19 had arrived.

Class 40 D354 was on loan to March MPD for crew training prior to taking over Newcastle/York – March duties.

Brush Diesel Electric Co-Co type 4 trails locomotive 0280 Falcon entered traffic in October 1961, allocated to Finsbury Park MPD.

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

D4102 (09014) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5821722691/
D8095 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6242871442/
D5164 (25014) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5663155793/
D5817 (31285) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5910868675/
D6571 (33053) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5907344251/
D6572 (33054) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5988504661/
D46 (45037) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5932034917/
D48 (45038) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5614899090/
D49 (45039) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6007135021/
D122 (45070) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6013396731/
D138 (46001) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6091689822/
D9015 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6148875903/
D9016 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5823764656/
30777 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6021011176/