I sent an email to the website sometime last year (maybe earlier) regarding the entry for GWR 6007 'King William III'. The entry states that this locomotive was in service from 03/1928 until 09/1962. The original 6007 (from lot 243) was written off in an accident on 15th January 1936 and condemned in early March of the same year. Lot 309 (03/36) was for a replacement, new build, engine carrying the same name and number. It may have included some parts from the original build in its construction but how much is not recorded. 6007 would have only been 26 years old at the time of scrapping.

Dave R.

I'm a regular user to the site and find it a fabulous resource, so I wish it well. These large endeavours are inevitably 'best efforts', and I don't suppose anyone should expect them to be perfect. Continuous improvement is the guiding principle.

21 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

Thanks for all your good work. I have used the site on many occasions and found it a good resource but as with everything else try to cross-reference where possible.

 

There are some occasional date problems with shed codes. 

I noticed one today on the LT&S 4-4-2T where some were shown as allocated to 13D Northwich. 

The CLC sheds had LNER codes to 1950 when they were for a short while proposed to become 13 group. Within a few weeks this was changed to put them into existing LMS groups.

The 13 group on the LMS covered LT&S and North London sheds. When the LT&S was transferred to the ER at the start of 1950 the sheds became 33 group with being Shoeburyness changed from 13D to 33C.

It appears that the 'From' date on Northwich as 13D is incorrectly shown as being in 1935, not 1950.

 

Eric

 

 

Thanks Eric, I have fixed that one now. It's always a bit of a headache with the depots that changed hands or where dual-owned/shared between companies.

2 hours ago, Miss Prism said:

I'm a regular user to the site and find it a fabulous resource, so I wish it well. These large endeavours are inevitably 'best efforts', and I don't suppose anyone should expect them to be perfect. Continuous improvement is the guiding principle.

 

"Continuous improvement" should be my motto but unfortunately it's "Stop tinkering, you'll only break it!"

3 hours ago, Devo63 said:

I sent an email to the website sometime last year (maybe earlier) regarding the entry for GWR 6007 'King William III'. The entry states that this locomotive was in service from 03/1928 until 09/1962. The original 6007 (from lot 243) was written off in an accident on 15th January 1936 and condemned in early March of the same year. Lot 309 (03/36) was for a replacement, new build, engine carrying the same name and number. It may have included some parts from the original build in its construction but how much is not recorded. 6007 would have only been 26 years old at the time of scrapping.

 

Dave R.

Thanks Dave - I have added the new loco - this has been on my list for ages!

10 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

I think there's still a glitch in Northwich or Shoeburyness somewhere as the LT&S Class 79 tanks are still showing some at Northwich and the dates between the tables at the top and bottom of the shed page don't match up.

The information on Northwich seems very fuzzy as the other sites I have looked at don't always give definite dates. I wonder if anyone from the 8E Railway Association has any information?

OK - got that - I use cache files to reduce the load on the database and when something changes, I need to delete the cache files so they can be refreshed. Guess what I forgot to do!

The following GWR classes have their own listings pages, but are missing from the main Locomotive Classes of the Great Western Railway page:

850/1901

3201 (Stella)

1076 (Buffalo)

388 (Armstrong Goods)

517

633

645

1016

3021

1813

1854

2301 (Dean Goods)

2361

3206 (Barnum)