All Our Yesterdays – 50 Years Ago –March 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, Doncaster building class 03’s, Derby building 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 55 Deltics and class 83 electric locomotives. Also English Electric were building at the Robert Stephensons and Hawthorn works, Darlington class 20’s and class 40’s. British Thompson and Houston were class 81 electric locomotives, Brush were building class 30’s (31’s) at Loughborough, North British Locomotive Co. at Glasgow were building class 43’s and class 84 electric locomotives, 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 – D2780

Class 03 – D2187/88/89, D2385/86

Class 04 – D2319/20/21/22

Class 05 – D2615/16/17

Class 08 – D3929/30/31/32/33/34

Class 10 – D4059/60/61/62

Class 20 – D8050/51/52

Class 30 – D5689/90/91/92/93

Class 33 – D6545/46/47

Class 37 – D6711/12/13/14

Class 40 – D319/20/34/35/36/37

Class 42 – D866 Zebra

Class 43 – D844 Spartan

Class 45 – D21/86/88/89/90/91/92

Class 55 – D9002/03

Class 81 – E3016/18

Class 83 – E3303

Class 84 – E3045

 

D21 is the 700th diesel locomotive built at Derby works.

 

All twelve Princess Royal 4-6-2 Pacific’s (46200/01-12) have been put into store.

 

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