cheesysmith Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 I have built a class13 from 2 Hornby 08. The versions I have used are suitable for numbers 2 & 3. Looking at the rail express Tinsley special, it dates number 2 as withdrawn in 81. The picture on the front cover has number 2 shunting dated in 82. Which is correct? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Withdrawn June '81 it says here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-diesels/6714032973/ And I think 53A's site is usually pretty accurate caption-wise. I haven't got the bible to hand but that date does ring a bell. The other twins lasted until closure of the hump in '85. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 Well, number 2 it is then. Just because there is a picture in the mag of it fresh from overhaul with black buffer beams. Makes painting easier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 12, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2014 Coincidentally; https://www.flickr.com/photos/daffy-dub/11763164213/ Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2014 Coincidentally; https://www.flickr.com/photos/daffy-dub/11763164213/ Mike. That's a fascinating photo for many reasons. One thing that stands out for me is the 16 tonner right inside the works so that scrap could be put straight into it. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 Coincidentally; https://www.flickr.com/photos/daffy-dub/11763164213/ Mike. Note that it still had black buffer beams and buffers when withdrawn. Looking at photos of the other two, they gained yellow buffer beams and buffers at a later date, although it is hard to tell under all the muck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Radford Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 13 002 Withdrawn 06/81 001 & 003 - 01/85 WNXX Data Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted May 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 12, 2014 That's a fascinating photo for many reasons. One thing that stands out for me is the 16 tonner right inside the works so that scrap could be put straight into it. Jamie So why would such a loco (pair of locos?) be taken all the way to Swindon from Tinsley to be scrapped? Seems a wasted effort to me. I can imagine that better environmental controls these days, would make it more effective to have a small number specialised facilities, for scrapping locomotives. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 That question has always confused me. 13001 was also cut up at Swindon 3 years later, and yet 13003 withdrawn at the same time went to Doncaster. The strange logic of cutting up happened before this, though, with the class 24s. Most of the Scottish ones were cut up at Doncaster when common sense might suggest Glasgow Works as the obvious choice, and quite a few 25s went there. Crewe did not appear to do much cutting up in those days, so their 24s went to Swindon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Scrapping locations were superficially quite curious. However, it seems that there were nominated works for despatching individual classes. The trio of ex-RTC Claytons (12, 21 and 98) made their despairing trek back from Derby (where the neighbourhood Works was happily cutting Class 44s) to undergo their razor-blade conversion at St Rollox, at the end of the '70s, from where a few years before the final ScR stragglers had, in '75 been sent to Norfolk for disintegration. The fugitive Highland Baby Sulzers, having been exiled to the Lothians, were sent en masse via holding points at Carstairs, Kingmoor and Millerhill down to Doncaster for fragmentation. It's almost as though Glasgow was taking time off breaking engines up in 1977, although Doncaster was (along with Swindon) clearly a favoured processing plant for the fruit-machines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 12, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 12, 2014 Swindon cut up "foreign" locos to keep the works open at a politically tricky time I believe. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekEm8 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 And what about this strange saga I don't think it was actually scrapped at Swindon. 27034 Swindon 21 Sept 1985. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Why not send it to Swindon, as Swindon was the main works for 08 repairs and maintenance at that time. Take it there as a loco and remove all the good bits and cut the rest up and send it to Newport for melting down. PS. I'm on about the class 13. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 13, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2014 Must have taken quite a while to get the 13's to Swindon at half a mile an hour!! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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