Class 26/27 photos

[w124bob]

Surprised this one has popped up D5300 in original livery, but after it's dual brake conversion. https://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/9710613641/in/faves-28630680@N06/

Here are D5378 and D5399 on the GC at Leicester, scroll down.

http://www.gcrleicester.info/html/trains.html

[Southof1E top tmd]

The magic of steam heat caught superbly by the late Tony Ewer. 27018 is steaming away nicely prior to departure from Edinburgh Waverly with 2L18 0625 to Dundee on May 5th 1984

 

NR

[rodent279]

On 27/02/2021 at 12:56, Rugd1022 said:

A while ago I posted a couple of Bob Faulkner's shots of a pair of 27s at Blisworth in the '60s, here's another showing D5412 and D5388....

 

 

 

Didn't realise they made it that far up the WCML. Did they ever reach Bletchley, or points further south (on the WCML)?

Edited September 14, 2021 by rodent279

[Rugd1022]

2 hours ago, rodent279 said:

Didn't realise they made it that far up the WCML. Did they ever reach Bletchley, or points further south (on the WCML)?

 

I've heard anecdotal evidence of it happening occasionally from old hand Drivers etc, remember that a batch were allocated to Cricklewood up to about 1970, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they came onto the WCML and I've seen photos of them in Willesden Brent Yard.

[Crisis Rail]

On 11/09/2021 at 21:18, Southof1E top tmd said:

The magic of steam heat caught superbly by the late Tony Ewer. 27018 is steaming away nicely prior to departure from Edinburgh Waverly with 2L18 0625 to Dundee on May 5th 1984

 

NR

 

May 5th - still chilly in Edinburgh.

[Crisis Rail]

On 06/03/2021 at 21:01, luckymucklebackit said:

27s on the Kyle line were rare, this is a beauty shared from Facebook with permission from photographer Alan Conway.  26 034  running round at Kyle of Lochalsh on 9th September 1980 having arrived with 27 109 on the first train of the day from Dingwall.  Note that the track beyond  the release crossover only allows one loco at a time.

 

Always thought drivers had to be keen on the brakes at Kyle......

[rodent279]

20 hours ago, Rugd1022 said:

 

I've heard anecdotal evidence of it happening occasionally from old hand Drivers etc, remember that a batch were allocated to Cricklewood up to about 1970, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they came onto the WCML and I've seen photos of them in Willesden Brent Yard.

Thanks. I'd love to see photographic evidence of a 27 at BY!

On a related note, I'm sure I've seen a photo of a class 27 on the GC at Leicester Central, or somewhere near, in about 1966/7, prior to final closure. Can't find the photo now, I've tried Flickr to no avail. Can anyone help please?

 

Edit:- found it (the 27 at Leics C), @w124bob posted it on Monday, at the top of this page.

Must go to Barnard Castle .....

Edited September 15, 2021 by rodent279

[montyburns56]

26003 Granton Branch 1981 by Murray Liston

 

 

[Rugd1022]

Photo by FA Haynes c/o John Burns : D5386 at Five Ways on a trip working to Birmingham Central Goods Station in 1964....

 

[iands]

15 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said:

Photo by FA Haynes c/o John Burns : D5386 at Five Ways on a trip working to Birmingham Central Goods Station in 1964....

 

That could also sit nicely in the "When the real thing looks like a model" thread. 

[Rugd1022]

Photo by David Timothy : 5408 at Glasgow Queen St in 1970....

 

[russ p]

On 05/12/2021 at 11:49, Rugd1022 said:

Photo by FA Haynes c/o John Burns : D5386 at Five Ways on a trip working to Birmingham Central Goods Station in 1964....

 

 

I did a lot of work on this loco when it was based on the North Norfolk in the 90s. It had serious body rot but is now owned by Harry Needle and is going mainline eventually 

[ianwales]

Back on page 2 there is a photo of 27008 with a plated over centre window, anyone know if this mod was both ends or just 1 end please?

 

Ian

[stovepipe]

Just one end (the B-end) for a few months in 1983, sorted out at the next Works visit in November.

 

 

 

[stovepipe]

Another one on the 3rd rail. D5408 at Clapham Jct in 1964

 

 

[rodent279]

19 minutes ago, stovepipe said:

Just one end (the B-end) for a few months in 1983, sorted out at the next Works visit in November.

 

 

 

I'd never equate class 27's with Underground stock & 4th rail. Who'd have thunk it!

[stovepipe]

And another one. D5386 passing under the Batchworth Lane bridge near Northwood with an up train of oil tankers 17 Feb 63

 

 

[stovepipe]

On 10/12/2021 at 15:05, rodent279 said:

I'd never equate class 27's with Underground stock & 4th rail. Who'd have thunk it!

 

It's certainly something of a shock, and that to someone familar with seeing a rat at Neasden South Jn in later times. Not so far from the Cricklewood - Acton line, so perhaps it wasn't quite as unusual as all that. I do wonder what the trip working was though - possibly a Croxley tip, or maybe a works delivery to an LT depot?

[Rugd1022]

It's almost enough to make you want to model something in the Cricklewood / Neasden / Willesden / Acton area.... 

[stewartingram]

On 10/12/2021 at 15:21, stovepipe said:

And another one. D5386 passing under the Batchworth Lane bridge near Northwood with an up train of oil tankers 17 Feb 63

 

 

On the fast lines so technically a GC working.

[rodent279]

39 minutes ago, stewartingram said:

On the fast lines so technically a GC working.

So that gets me thinking, how far along the GC did class 27's roam? I've seen photos of them in Leicester Central-did they ever work along the length of the extension, through Rugby, Brackley etc? Did they work through Nottingham Vic? How far north would they have gone?

[pheaton]

On 02/08/2021 at 14:21, luckymucklebackit said:

 

SIlly boy, that is the unleaded fuel they use for class 66s - this is the stuff for class 26s

 

dunno about fuel....maybe coolant judging by the state of 26043s block...

[MidlandRed]

26 minutes ago, rodent279 said:

So that gets me thinking, how far along the GC did class 27's roam? I've seen photos of them in Leicester Central-did they ever work along the length of the extension, through Rugby, Brackley etc? Did they work through Nottingham Vic? How far north would they have gone?

Almost all of D5371 onwards spent time based at Cricklewood, Leicester and the Nottingham Division (some were allocated to Bedford early on), all based on BR database info and prior to their mass transfer to Scotland at the end of the 60s. They appeared anywhere on the ‘Midland Lines’ or workings to/from them - so Midland Main Line in particular. 

 

From observation in the Birmingham area they were a daily feature on the Derby/Leicester/Saltley and sometimes southwards towards Gloucester, though not as ubiquitous as classes 24/25. 
 

Presumably they would have reached Bletchley via the Bedford/Bletchley line. 
 

There was also a large batch (around 20?) of class 25 allocated concurrently to Cricklewood in the 60s in the D521x-D522x series. These, along with the class 27s allocated there tended to operate at the southern end of the Midland and other LMR lines - as shown by gaps in underlining in my Combined Volumes prior to that area being visited in the later 60s!! 

[Rugd1022]

 

Edited December 14, 2021 by Rugd1022

[rodent279]

48 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said:

 

Wow, a 27 on the SR, on what appears to be a bona fide passenger train. Next question-what was the furthest south a 27 worked prior to preservation? Did any make it to the south coast on scheduled freight/passenger services?

Edit-since class 33's were starting to appear at that time, did a 27/33 lash up happen?

Edited December 14, 2021 by rodent279