28XX Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Can anyone identify this? Taken at Stourport on Severn in Worcestershire. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 28, 2016 Looks like a Midland 2F 0-6-0 - flared coal rails on tender, position of boiler feed pipe and clack valve and cab shape do it for me....although the boiler feed pipe varied from loco to loco Not the most likely type to be at Stourport - are we sure of location? Fencing looks rather more Midland than GW to my eyes... CHeers Phil Edit - must be hallucinating - see below! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 First thought - ex-LNWR "Super D". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 28, 2016 Ha ha I must be going blind! Its an 0-8-0! So Super D far more likely than my ramblings - but perhaps just as unlikely at Stourport on snowplough duty Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Just to add to my last post: - sandbox on top/in front of splasher - Super D - no smokebox numberplate visible - Super D - no horizontal handrail across smokebox front (cf 2F) - pipe emerges from cabside (cf rail above cabside in 2F) - larger diameter boiler cf 2F - boiler feed pipe position - Super D - handrail on right side of smokebox appears to be bending up to go round top of smokebox door -Super D I agree it's an unexpected engine at Stourport. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMS2968 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 A Super D indeed. Following the withdrawal of the 0-8-4 tanks Buxton fitted one for that class's previous snowplough duties. They normally ran back to back with a 4F, the latter fitted with a small plough. Possibly the loco was sent to Stourport on the basis that the plough was already fitted, but it's almost certainly a Buxton allocation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2016 So if a Buxton loco ... has confusion with Stockport crept in perhaps? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted November 29, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2016 Definitely a G2, could be on the LNW Buxton branch which starts in Stockport. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
28XX Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 Thanks for all your replies. The Stourport connection could be tenuous. The pic was published in a Facebook group Growing up in Worcestershire in the 40s 50s and 60s. Allegedly taken by a 14 year old farm worker from Witley Court. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2016 Well that certainly gives it local provenance! Was kicked out of the grounds for fishing in the lake without permission there - and my mother's ashes are scattered in the grounds. Struggling to place the local topography though - Stourport was a single line with passing loop And snowplough duties would have been the provenance of the local division which was Worcester up until the regional changes in 62 - so WR loco more likely I guess Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 In the fifties Stockport, Macclesfield and Buxton all had G2a locos. I don't remember any snowplough fitted ones at Stockport, but then, as now, I don't go out voluntarily in the snow. As an aside Bescot was well equipped with G2as as well and that is a lot closer to Stourport than 9B! Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted November 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2016 Loco is LNW, fence looks LNW. Lateral thinking from Post #9 - Whitley near Coventry? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2016 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=super+d+whitley&safe=strict&biw=1280&bih=929&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2jYC-n87QAhWqAMAKHSGoAEwQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=nlZjv3afuK0y2M%3A And just look at the fence and topography at Whitley... Mr SE may have hit the nail on the head.... Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted November 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2016 https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=super+d+whitley&safe=strict&biw=1280&bih=929&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2jYC-n87QAhWqAMAKHSGoAEwQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=nlZjv3afuK0y2M%3A And just look at the fence and topography at Whitley... Mr SE may have hit the nail on the head.... Phil Not the Whitley I was thinking of (just south of Coventry station), but that one could be a better bet. Whitley Crossing was on the main line about a mile north of Wigan, so plenty of Super D opportunities and as you say the right kind of fencing.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2016 I took one look and said 'Duck Eight', and I'm sure that it definitely is not on an exGWR line anywhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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