Severn Valley diesels in BR days

[Phil Bullock]

On 24/02/2019 at 09:52, Covkid said:

The photo I am thinking of is a little like this one from the Amblecote history society website

http://www.amblecotehistorysociety.org.uk/Contents/Subjects/Railway/Easthope Shed/Shed.htm

In this image there are Brush type 4s and EE type 4s as well as a 350hp "jocko" on the turntable.

 

I entered this thread mentioning EE type 1s being allocated to rthe Weast Midlands in 1965. Although EE type 4s had been a part of the West Midlands since the early 1960s on passenger work it was not really until 1966 than Bescot and Stourbridge crews started working on them, but for the brief period from 1966 to around 1969 they did an awful lot of work in the West Midlands right from humble coal trains through general freight, banking, parcels, milk right up to express passenger work. They were usurped from the latter by the Brush type 4s, which then took over much other freight work.

 

Recommend a look at the weblink, and whilst this doesn't directly help the OP it must be remembered that Stourbridge supplied the power for Severn Valley freight trippers when Kidderminster closed.  I guess that some block trains of sugar beet and coal into the British Sugar plant at Foley Park might have been through diesels, as they were for the British Sugar plant at Allscott between Wellington and Shrewsbury 

 

 

Cracking photos there - thanks for pointing them out!

 

A few comments -

 

Photo 11 - thats 3205, see https://www.svrwiki.com/GWR_2251_Class_3205, February 1967

 

Wonder if there is a shift in the caption dates - a ouple of years too late?  Allocations are here http://brdatabase.info/sites.php?page=depots&subpage=arrdep&id=523 and as an example 46427 in photo 16 was transferred to Tyesley in 1966 and met her fate at Cashmores in Newport in Feb 67. http://brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&id=426003028&type=S&loco=46427 and from my own observations suspect the locos were stabled by the station from 1968 - the fact that all 350s were transferred away by April 67 suggests that might be the depot closure date perhaps?

 

Ah hang on - http://www.amblecotehistorysociety.org.uk/Contents/Subjects/Railway/Engine shed/Stour Shed/Stourbridge Shed.htm quotes closure of the shed as July 66 - thats the same web site as the photos

 

Fascinating look at history from this distance!

 

Phil

 

 

 

[Phil Bullock]

Just found this - 8F heading north to Alveley through Bewdley -  watch the video, 1 min 20, dont blink or you will miss it!

 

https://www.svrtrust.org.uk/index.php?page=Home

 

Phil

 

 

[Phil Bullock]

On 21/02/2019 at 15:01, Phil Bullock said:

 

Agreed! Diesel power arrived late in the WR Worcester district but when Kidderminster shed closed in 1964 it was under LMR not WR control - so responsibility for motive power passed to Stourbridge. WR power there was replaced by 8Fs so it was them that saw out the end of steam to Alveley - no colliery at Arley! 

 

And yes 25s and 20s from Bescot were the diesel replacement - there was usually a 25 and an 08 outstationed at Kidderminster. Hydraulics did pass on the OWW main line as evidenced by a contratemps at Hartlebury in 1967 between D8138 and D7038, and I seem to remember a press furore around the use of the 25 after all traffic had ceased to continue to deliver wages to railwaymen at Alveley.....

 

Phil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And heres the link to the TV report of the Hartlebury prang. Looks like some major intervention from the hand of god was required....

 

https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-26011967-railway-news

 

Phil