Welcome to Railway Forum! | |
Thank you for finding your way to Railway Forum, a dedicated community for railway and train enthusiasts. There's a variety of forums, a wonderful gallery, and what's more, we are absolutely FREE. You are very welcome to join, take part in the discussion, and post your pictures!
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
#22
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
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. Last edited by Bevan Price; 20th November 2015 at 21:33. |
#23
|
||||
|
||||
Thank you very much bevan. That will help drawing up a list of locos to model I feel a fair bit of re-numbering coming up starting with my ever increasing number of black 5.
Know I have to make my mind up about dates to model 1950-55 or extend to 1960. Which would allow me to keep all my pats rebuilt pats/scots though I'll have to evoke Rule 1 for princess R's C's which I can't bring myself to sell considering how much effort they take to build.
__________________
Chaos, Panic, Disorder I see my work here is DONE!!! |
#24
|
||||
|
||||
I echo what others have said. Have just got this book and it's worth every penny. Hugh Longworth deserves a big 'thank you' from all British railway fans, historians and modellers. Steve.
|
#25
|
|||
|
|||
When you start to realise that the last BR steam revenue service ran in May 1967 - that is 48 years ago! No-one under the age of 52/53 would ever remember them. We need reference books and researchers such as Hugh Longworth to enable us to keep our dreams alive.
|
#26
|
|||
|
|||
August 1968.
|
#27
|
|||
|
|||
11th August 1968, The Fifteen Guinea Special from Liverpool to Carlisle via Manchester and return, four separate steam locos hauled it at different stages if I recall correctly.
|
#28
|
|||
|
|||
Thanks John, I stand corrected; 11th August 1968 it was.
Now you know why I need the reference books! The grey matter is slowly beginning to misfire now and again. Regards, Tony. |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
Thread Tools | |
|
|