All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –September 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 15’s and class 81 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 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 – D2512
Class 02 – D2860
Class 03 – D2377/78/97/98
Class 04 – D2338
Class 08 – D4097/98/99, D4100
Class 10 – D4075
Class 20 – D8083/84/85/86/87/88/90
Class 25 – D5161/62/63
Class 27 – D5352/53/54/55
Class 30 – D5813/14/15/16
Class 33 – D6567/68/69/70
Class 35 – D7005
Class 37 – D6726/27/28
Class 40 – D358/59/60
Class 43 – D854 Tiger
Class 45 – D47, D118/19/20
Class 55 – D9012 Crepello, D9013/14
Class 81 – E3022

Notable steam withdrawals included the last London and North Eastern Railway B12 4-6-0 61572, the last nineteen North Eastern railway B16/1 4-6-0’s withdrawn en-bloc on the 25th September 1961,

New Class 40 D358 arrived at Haymarket MPD in mid September and a start has been made on using class 40’s on the Aberdeen line.

Class 45 D100 was named Sherwood Forester at Derby station on the 23rd September 1961 and class 40 D233 was named Empress of England as it passed through Crewe works.

D2397 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5579612268/
D4100 (09012) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6081476859/
D8083 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5928734249/
D5161 (25011) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5939305168/
D5162 (25012) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5721005682/
D5352 (27006) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6004056109/
D5354 (27008) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6004599924/
D5814 (31414) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5605768438/
D6570 (33052) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5907898140/
D358 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5631952680/
D359 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6031431148/
D360 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5890155824/
D47 (45116) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5678610671/
D100 (45060) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5698566282/
D119 (45007) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5624946130/
D120 (45108) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6013398565/
D9012 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5626527107/
D9013 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5980535590/
D9014 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5980527696/