All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –February 1961

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Extracts from the RCTS Railway Observer from 50 years ago.

 

Diesel and Electric locomotive building was in full swing with British Railways workshops at Darlington building class 10’s, Horwich building class 08’s, Derby building class 24’s and class 45 “Peaksâ€, Crewe building class 45 “Peaks†and Swindon building class 03’s and class 42’s. Locomotive contractors were also in production with English Electric building at Vulcan Foundry class 40’s, class 37’s, class 83 electric locomotives and had just delivered the first class 55 Deltic. Also English Electric were building at the Robert Stephensons and Hawthorn works, Darlington class 40’s. British Thompson and Houston were building class 15’s, Brush were building class 30’s (31’s) at Loughborough, North British Locomotive Co. at Glasgow were building a batch of 0-4-0 diesel hydraulic shunters, class 22’s and class 43’s, the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. were building class 33’s, Drewry were building class 04’s at the Robert Stephensons and Hawthorn works Darlington, and Hunslet were building class 05’s.

 

New locomotives:

Unclassified – D2779

Class 03 – D2145/46

Class 04 – D2315/16/17/18

Class 05 – D2613/14

Class 08 – D3925/26/27/28

Class 10 – D4054/55/56/57/58

Class 15 – D8241/42/43

Class 22 – D6335

Class 24 – D5149/50

Class 30 – D5685/86/87/88

Class 33 – D6542/43/44

Class 37 – D6707/08/09/10

Class 40 – D317/18/30/31/32/33

Class 42 – D832 Onslaught

Class 43 – D840 Resistance

Class 45 – D20/85/87

Class 55 – D9000/01

Class 83 – E3034

 

The influx of diesels on the southern section of the West Coast Main Line has seen the express passenger steam fleet (Patriots and Jubilee 4-6-0’s, Princess Royal and Duchess 4-6-2’s) being used on freight duties.

 

A number of the above were photographed later in life and can be found in this collection. As always feedback and comments welcome

 

http://pics-by-john.photoblog.org.uk/c1941726.html

[Buckingham]

John

 

If you have access to the February 1961 Railway Observer, I'm after a copy of a note or article on the Buckingham Banbury Branch.

 

The LNWR Society Press Digest lists "The Nostalgia Corner of the February 2011 edition of the Railway Observer reprints The

Passing Scene No.2 – The Buckingham – Banbury Branch from the February 1961 edition. This

records the closure of the branch with a somewhat whimsical look at what was lost."

 

I have a model in EM of Buckingham Station and would like to add a copy of the article to my records. Thanks for any help you can give?

 

Dave