'CHARD Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Some of you have been participating in my festive parlour game of virtual steam shed bashing, using Google Street View and a 1965 Locoshed Directory, here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/79956-a-cinder-path-leads-to-chards-shed-directory-65/ Yesterday's wanderings took me the ten minute walk from Banbury's futuristic station to the atmospheric remnants of the steam shed. This sparked plenty of off-forum reminiscences and the unearthing of a story that I was hitherto unaware of. Banbury had a short term allocation of heavyweight Britannias (from the 70045-54 batch) that briefly worked the Great Central after closure of its own steam facilities. They moved on to 12A, a depot of which I'm extremely fond, and put in work before Kingmoor too closed on New Year's Eve 1967. This inaugural topic (under this new Special Interest area - Cheers Andy!) is dedicated to when Brits roosted at Banbury. I'm off out for a Christmas stroll, to send my mind back in time to my birth year, and what steam was up to.... Looking forward to digging deep into this subject matter. If pH will indulge me, as I quote from a PM of yesterday: Seeing the photos on that site, and remembering another Brit that had been shedded there, reminded me of something I thought I had read about the Banbury Brits. So I checked, and I had remembered correctly.The Brits had been sent there for GC line services, after sheds at the southern end of the line had been closed to steam. They were all "heavyweight" Brits i.e. from the 70045-54 batch, with the larger BR1D tenders, to make sure they could carry enough coal for a round trip. In October 1965, Banbury had 70045/6/7/50/1/2/3/4. I believe they moved to Kingmoor in January 1966. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 27, 2013 Author Share Posted December 27, 2013 70045 (LORD ROWALLAN) at 2D, 14th November 1965. She looks well and truly parked-up here, although she's fully coaled. http://www.flickr.com/photos/railwaydave/2296364815/ She's a 12A machine, by the time of this lovely colour shot from Barking Bill, 30th October '66: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barkingbill/2149288610/ 70052 (FIRTH OF TAY) on the same day. The caption to this photo in flickr includes an impressive list of what was on shed, including a total of 5/8ths of the local Brits. This was the ultimate photographic encapsulation of the 'Cinder path' atmosphere, in my mind at least. http://www.flickr.com/photos/railwaydave/2296364617/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 27, 2013 Author Share Posted December 27, 2013 70054 (DORNOCH FIRTH) tucked out of the way, pending transfer perhaps: http://www.flickr.com/photos/16521384@N07/6234721369/in/photolist-auZgcq-auWzp8-7WGt5k-gpajoo-cgKZJb-cg65VU-ga5RvY-dC8zXN-dC8zwd-dC39Xc-dJ8mHX-dJ8mgZ-dd4xwU-dJdNxy-8w4xjr-dJdMZS-dJ8kSr-dJ8kfT-a2DPhY-dJdMnY-dQBX7g-8hbthc-7WAcbj-9CDoiT-7D5Hih-auWzs2-9FjtEw-9QXLnV-9FgGrk-eCh2VE-eimTUU-c7Qucj-9QXUGi-eCh2Db-9QYif6-9R1dgy-9R2fPJ-9QWTaa-9FjxKU-9Fjsyf-9R2w3f-9QXcRv-9R12Kw-9R2CNN-9QXEKk-cUg7oJ-a1MTsz-9981Gv-8BubVv-hDvNQv-aDxUcE/ 70052 of 2D at Nottingham Victoria, doing the job she was shedded at Banbury for: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22633970@N08/2389349887/in/photolist-4D93tH-dd4xwU-7WGt5k-dDPKXr-dDPLdr-edHW5a-dFA2WH-dGgttT-dAPjVp Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 This should help to confirm some dates. Firth of Tay again, this time at Springs Branch, with what seems to be a fresh, clean Kingmoor shedplate. Date - 9th January 1966. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 This site - http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=70052&loco=70052 - gives a date of w/e January 8, 1966 for the transfer, which fits. I saw 70047, formerly of Banbury, in Glasgow Central on January 8 that year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 A few of the Banbury Brits spent the summer of '65 at Oxley, before moving on to Banbury at the end of the summer timetable, usually working the inter-regional trains to the SR, I took a pic of 70045 on shed at Basingstoke, but because my scanner is playing up I can't add it here. GC work was transferred to Banbury just before the closure of my favourite shed - Willesden, where I'd seen most of the Brits. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 No wonder I feel such an affinity with the class; I knew I felt the presence of kindly spirits when I used to crawl all over Oxley's steam remnants a few years back - all in the name of gainful employment, I hasten to add! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Your 'festive parlour game' has been interesting, but pity I was away when it covered two of my regular old haunts - Bescot, and Banbury . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Some of these may have been seen before, but they are all Bri's at Banbury shed. Even I am in the cab of one of them! 70052 09-10-1965 70045 30-10-1965 70050 24-12-1965 70052 24-12-1965 70053 24-12-1965 Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 I was barely a week old when the Christmas Eve shots were captured, and I am extremely grateful for the ability to share that atmosphere. Banbury was some place in those days. Seems inevitable that local working men (and women) paid the price of their jobs for Steam's contraction.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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