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Originally Posted by farren
Cheers Crab very informative.
Been trying to work out which sheds would have provided locomotives from the north passing through Leicester. With my limited amount of books I am having to look on the net but a complete list is hard to come by. Obviously kentish town provided from London. But from Manchester Sheffield and even york plus lundidno (hopefully spelt correctly but probably not) I can't seem to pin down which sheds provide the locos by the web. I can find shed codes but can't be sure which ones would have provided MML.
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MML expresses through Leicester were mainly operated by these depots
Kentish Town (14B)
Leicester (15C)
Nottingham (16A)
Derby (17A)
Trafford Park (9E)
Millhouses (19B)
Holbeck (20A, later 55A)
Local & semi-fast passenger services would be mostly operated by (for example) Saltley, Nuneaton, Burton on Trent, Kettering depots (in addition to 16A & 17A). You might also get locos ex-Derby Works being used on 17A duties.
Freights would probably come from almost any LMR depots within about 100 miles from Leicester. The main MML flows would be between Cricklewood, Wellingborough & Toton or Rowsley. But there would also be a lot of coal & mineral traffic from Leicestershire & neighbouring counties.
So, locos from distant depots like Crewe North (5A), Crewe South (5B), Stoke (5D), Heaton Mersey (9F) and elsewhere are quite feasible. In the closing years of steam, LNER/ER Class B1 were feasible on services from Peterborough, and summer saturday services from the east coast resorts.
You might be interested in this list of the steam locos I saw on a visit to Leicester shed in May 1963:
41227/28/79
42087/184/279
42334/338/355
42827
43964/969/977/988
44030/034/403/414/530
44804/811/847/920/962
45253
48037/089/510/632/651
61328
73136/156
84029
90665
92108/110/119/123
Also present were a few of Classes 08, 27, 45, 46 (as they became under TOPS), plus
Departmental shunter ED4.