Alan Rintoul

I have a nice colour pic of class 29 D6107 in ex works blue livery which states on the back that it was taken at Carlisle Kingmoor in August 1967. I cannot say for sure that it is Kingmoor, but it is certainly a steam depot.

Assuming that it is indeed Kingmoor, is it possible that D6107 wrked via the Waverley Route with a relief train from perhaps Dundee to Morecambe or Blackpool? The loco displays a 1Z headcode indicating a special or relief train?

I know that traction knowledge would have been an issue, but that would have been the same regardless of what way the train was routed. Anybody got any ideas?

Just briefly, while we're on the subject of classes ending in '7' to work the WR, here's a list of Class 37s I cribbed from Flickr.

 

6700, 6711, 6715, 6729, 6759, 6760, 6762, 6778, 6779, 6787, 6790, 6793, 6819, 6827, 6832, 6834, 6835, 6837, 6838, 6839, 6843 - 6859, 6861, 6865, 6873, 6902, 6903, 6909, 6919, 6936, 6937.

 

Total: 46.

Split-box 12, centre-panel 34.

 

A healthy complement of 66A and 64B hardware amongst that lot; interestingly 6700 was loaned to Haymarket for push-pull trials from 29/2/68 under tutelage of the RTC so I suspect that's how she reached the locus.

 

The 67XX contingent were all ER machines, with a heavy Gateshead bias. The low numbered 68XX were Welsh exiled to GD in '66, and the 6837-59 batch were the mainstay ScR allocation transferred in from Wales en masse in '66. We're back to the 52A connection for the remainder of the 68XX; 6902 and 3 were 64B early try-outs, 6909 was a real rarity as it was Welsh throughout the sixties; 6919/36/7 were Welsh until transfer to Eastfield in Spring 68, and onto Haymarket by the Autumn.

 

 

EDIT: Only main line diesel classes without lists of known members to have worked on the WR now are: 24, 25, 26 (although it's likely that most if not all did) and 40.

 

No Co-Bos are thought to have worked, 5511 plus a couple of other 31s, 21/29s not known if any worked, I'm disregarding 15, 16, 23, 33, hydraulics etc...

Gloucester class 100 MBS car no. SC51117 ran in blue with small yellow panel until 1973. I cannot recall any of the DTC cars in this livery.