Fifty Years Ago Today

[Bill Jamieson]

Rather a tenuous WR connection, but I think it's worth mentioning that today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the last day when there was a signicant amount of steam activity on class 1 passenger workings at Carlisle. Most notable were the arrivals of 45562 Alberta and 45593 Kolhapur on the dated SO 1S52 06:40 Birmingham - Glasgow and 1S67 09:20 St. Pancras - Glasgow respectively. Unfortunately I didn't witness such events myself, but I did see both Jubilees on Kingmoor shed the following day - hard to credit, given the amount of active steam locos on shed, that 12A would close only four months later.

 

Incidentally, the dated Dundee to Blackpool working routed over the WR had done its last 1967 run the previous Saturday, 19th August 1967 - 45285 worked the up train (1M31) forward from Carlisle but I've been unable to establish what brought in the down working (1S54).

 

Bill