WilltheMechanist Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 (edited) Does anybody know of any depots/sheds banking engines would be stabled at? I know of the ones for the Lickey, Shap and Beattock inclines (Bromsgrove, Tebay and Beattock stations respectively) but more examples would be welcomed. Edited March 30 by WilltheMechanist Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted March 29 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29 Bath Green Park / Queens Square & Templecombe. The banking engines there were not specifically for banking, but were rostered for those duties as appropriate. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 29 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29 (edited) Newton Abbott, Abergavenny Junction, Neath Court Sart, Landore, Chalford (Gloucester outstation), Severn Tunnel Jc, Aberbeeg, Radyr, Camden, Skipton, no doubt many more. Work at these sheds was not specifically or uniquely banking duties of course, but there were banking duties nonetheless, and even Tebay and Bromsgrove had other duties besides the banking they were famous for, local trips, pilot, and pickup work. Beattock provided the loco for the Moffat branch. Edited March 29 by The Johnster 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted March 29 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29 Saltley for banking over the Camp Hill line, 3F tender locos were featured in steam days. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 (edited) Engines from Stirling shed were used to bank heavy trains towards Dunblane. Trains were regularly banked out of Glasgow Queen Street in steam days. Engines were usually from Eastfield shed. I have seen a train being banked up to the flyover close to Bescot shed, presumably by an engine from that shed. I don’t know how common that was - the particular train was struggling, and it may just have been a one-off. Trains could be banked from Hawick to Whitrope by engines from Hawick shed. There’s a topic about that on here: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/125956-banking-hawick-to-whitrope/ Edited March 29 by pH 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 29 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 29 (edited) Rowsley, up to Peak Forest. I'm wondering if it would be quicker to list the sheds that never had any banking duties? Edited March 29 by Compound2632 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Exmouth Junction, for the bank from Exeter St Davids to Central, Barnstaple Junction, for the bank up to Mortehoe & Woolacombe (from both directions) Taunton, for Wellington bank. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Bristol Barrow Road up to Fishponds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cwmtwrch Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Brimscombe, a single-engine shed for the Sapperton banker, sub to Gloucester. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 (edited) The banking shed for Sapperton bank was Brimscombe (not Chalford). (post crossed with that of Cwmtwrch) Edited March 29 by Miss Prism 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Weymouth up to Bincombe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Poole up to Parkstone (supplied by Bournemouth). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cwmtwrch Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Wath, the home of the Gresley U1 until electrification. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Tyne Dock, for the 9F bankers on the Consett ore trains. Newton Heath, for the Miles Platting bankers out of Manchester Victoria. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Folkestone Junction - for the harbour branch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Box, for Box bank cheers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted March 29 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 29 Laira, for Hemerdon, can't remember whether it was Laira or Newton Abbot that supplied locos to Totnes for Dand Rattery. It would have been Plymouth, before Laira opened. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph benjamin Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Rowsley provided bankers for Peak Forest Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bri.dolan Posted March 29 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29 (edited) Wentworth junction on the worsbrough branch was the home of the U1 garrett Monday to Friday it only went back to its parent shed mexbough at the weekends I believe wentworth junction was classed as a sub shed of mexbough even though there was no actual shed just a siding and water tower the banking locos getting their coal from the nearby wentworth silkstone colliery by using their loading shute Edited March 29 by Bri.dolan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidlandRed Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 (edited) 6 hours ago, Cwmtwrch said: Wath, the home of the Gresley U1 until electrification. And the EM1 (later class 76) used as bankers on Worsborough) 7 hours ago, pH said: I have seen a train being banked up to the flyover close to Bescot shed, presumably by an engine from that shed. I don’t know how common that was - the particular train was struggling, and it may just have been a one-off. Not a one off - I also saw this - the line concerned was the steeply graded and sharply curved link from the Bescot to Walsall line, round on to the South Staffs line towards Wednesbury, Dudley and Stourbridge Junction. I think the train loco was a Stanier 8F as probably was the banker. The junction for this line was under the M6 flyover - which was built in isolation at the time of electrification - the approaches were built slightly later. Additionally, Bescot provided bankers (class 25s from those generally available on shed) for trains travelling up grade, south towards Soho junction from Perry Barr junctions, through Handsworth Park - the trains were held at a signal just south of the short tunnel under what was the Endwood public house, Hamstead Road - possibly the starting signal for the erstwhile Handsworth Wood station (closed immediately post war) - when the banker(s) arrived at the rear of the train (out of sight beyond the tunnel and the curve) they communicated with the train loco (s) by sounding horns. This must have happened in steam days also, presumably? Edited March 29 by MidlandRed 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted March 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30 Just because I had a album of collected snaps of bankers ---- 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 7 hours ago, MidlandRed said: Not a one off - I also saw this - the line concerned was the steeply graded and sharply curved link from the Bescot to Walsall line, round on to the South Staffs line towards Wednesbury, Dudley and Stourbridge Junction. I think the train loco was a Stanier 8F as probably was the banker. From memory, and looking at my notebook, I think the train engine was an 8F. However, the banker was probably 44766, a double-chimney Stanier 5, which was shedded at Bescot at the time (January 1965). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Glyn Neath. . Rhymney . Dowlais Cae Harris . Abercynon (for Treforest to Tonteg) . All had banking engine turns. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 30 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30 12 minutes ago, br2975 said: Abercynon (for Treforest to Tonteg) And to Quaker's Yard presumably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 A major reason for the existence of Blair Atholl shed on the Highland Railway was to provide bankers for the northbound climb to Druimuachdar summit. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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