70004
12A
12 20 Carlisle/Leeds City
113
09 56 Glasgow C/St Pan
Fri 1 Sep
44825
12A
17 47 Manch Ex/Leeds City
50¾
For York
45208
56F
20 45 Brad Ex/Leeds City
9½
For Paignton
42152
55A
22 04 Wfield Kgate/Brad Ex
33½
18 53 KX/Brad Ex (portion)
45208
56F
23 55 Brad Ex/Leeds City
9½
For KX
Sat 2 Sep
42141
56F
03 10 Norm/Halifax
22
02 10 York/Manch Vic
44949
9D
04 38 Halifax/Manch Vic
32½
02 10 ex-York
Sat 30 Sep
42689
56F
03 10 Norm/Halifax
22
02 10 York/Manch Vic
45287
8A
04 38 Halifax/Heb Bridge
8¾
02 10 York/Manch Vic
44971
10D
07 58 Cudworth/Leeds City
21
07 06 ex-Sheff Mid
61306
56F
09 55 Brad Ex/Leeds City
9½
For KX (2)
45428
55A
14 20 Leeds City/Brad Ex
9½
45428
55A
16 50 Leeds City/New Pudsey
6
13 25 KX/Brad Ex (portion)
Sat 14 Oct
45221
8B
03 32 Leeds City/Halifax
16¼
45221
8B
04 38 Halifax/Manch Vic
32½
02 10 ex-York
Sun 22 Oct
73053
9H
23 38 Lpool Lime St/Leeds City
76
For York
Sat 28 Oct
70013
12A
Manch Vic/Norm
117
rail tour
45562
55A
Norm/Norm
47¾
rail tour
70013
12A
Norm/Rose Grove
54½
rail tour
Fri 3 Nov
45203
9D
04 38 Halifax/Manch Vic
32½
02 10 ex-York
70051
12A
17 47 Manch Ex/York
76
Sat 4 Nov
45203
9D
03 32 Leeds City/Halifax
16¼
45203
9D
04 38 Halifax/Heb Bridge
8¾
02 10 York/Manch Vic
60019
PRES
08 45 Leeds City/Edinburgh
230¼
rail tour
Sun 5 Nov
73128
9H
23 38 Lpool Lime St/Patricroft
26¼
For York
Mon 6 Nov
73132
9H
01 00 Patricroft/Leeds City
47¾
23 38 Lpool/York
(1) – The Devonian
(2) – The Yorkshire Pullman
Date – 1968
Loco
Shed
Train
Miles
Remarks
Sat 20 Jan
44949
9D
03 32 Leeds City/Halifax
16¼
44949
9D
04 38 Halifax/Manch Vic
32½
02 10 ex-York
Sat 10 Feb
45310
9D
03 32 Leeds City/Halifax
16¼
45310
9D
04 38 Halifax/Manch Vic
32½
02 10 ex-York
Sat 30 Mar
44910
9D
03 32 Leeds City/Halifax
16¼
44910
9D
04 38 Halifax/Manch Vic
32½
02 10 ex-York
Sat 27 Apr
45310
9D
03 32 Leeds City/Halifax
16¼
45310
9D
04 38 Halifax/Manch Vic
32½
02 10 ex-York
73050
73069
9H
Stalybridge/Bolton
72¼
rail tour
NON-RESIDENTIAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES CAUGHT ON NER METALS
= 46
HOME-ALLOCATED NER STEAM LOCOMOTIVES CAUGHT
= 73
_______
Total 119
Index to shed codes: 5B – Crewe South, 6J – Holyhead, 8A – Edge Hill, 8B – Warrington Dallam, 8F – Springs Branch, 8H – Birkenhead, 8L – Aintree, 9B – Stockport Edgeley, 9D – Newton Heath, 9J – Agecroft, 9K – Bolton, 9H – Patricroft, 10A – Carnforth, 10D – Lostock Hall, 10J – Lancaster Green Ayre (vice Agre), 12A – Carlisle Kingmoor, 50A – York, 52D – Tweedmouth, 52F – North/South Blyth, 55A – Leeds Holbeck, 55C – Farnley Junction, 55E – Normanton, 55F – Bradford Manningham, 55G – Huddersfield Hillhouses, 56A – Wakefield, 56D – Mirfield, 56F (55J) – Bradford Low Moor, PRES – Preserved (privately owned).
APPENDIX IV
1966 – The Indian summer for the ‘Jubilees’
No.
Name
Allocation
Caught
Withdrawn
45562
Alberta
55C/55A
Jul ’66, Jun/Aug/Oct 67
04/11/67
45565
Victoria
56F
Jul ’66
06/01/67
45581
Bihar and Orissa
55C
Jul ’66
07/08/66
45593
Kolhapur
55A
Aug ’65, Jun/Jul ’66, Jul ’67
15/10/67
45647
Sturdee
55C/55A
May/Jul ’66
26/04/67
45675
Hardy
55A
Jul/Aug ’66
24/06/67
45694
Bellerophon
56A
Jun ’66
04/01/67
45697
Achilles
55A
Jul ’66
05/08/67
45739
Ulster
56A
Jul ’66
04/01/67
Alberta is a west Canadian prairie province; Victoria, at sixty-three years seven months, was the longest serving British monarch (so far); Bihar and Orissa were provinces of British India (1912–36); Kolhapur is a city on India’s Arabian Sea coast; Sturdee was a British admiral (1859–1925) who fought in the First World War at the battles of the Falkland Islands and Jutland; Hardy was the Wessex-born novelist and poet (1840–1928); Bellerophon and Achilles, although both Greek mythical heroes, were also mid-nineteenth-century prototype steam locomotives; Ulster is one of nine North Ireland provinces.
Services rostered for Jubilee haulage during the summer of 1966
Depot
Train
Remarks
55A
02 00 Sheffield Midland/Leeds City
55A
02 25 Leeds City/Carlisle
21 20 St Pancras/Glasgow
&n
bsp; 55C
04 35 York/Leeds City
56A
08 05 Castleford Ctl/Blackpool North
& 13 25 return to Bradford Ex
56F
08 20 Bradford Ex/Bridlington
& 13 25 return
55C
09 08 Leeds City/Nottingham Midland
For Poole – & return (to Bradford Ex)
55A
09 15 Leeds City/Llandudno
& 15 25 return
55A
10 17 Leeds City/Carlisle
06 40 Birmingham/Glasgow
APPENDIX V
TWO SAMPLE SUMMER FORAYS
(NER EXTRACTS ONLY)
Saturday 2 July 1966
Time
(arr. dep.)
Location
Traction
Notes
Miles
04 35
York
45562 (55C)
Alberta
05 09 05 58
Leeds City
44828 (55A)
25½
00 05 ex-St Pancras
06 19
Bradford Forster Square
13½
08 20
Bradford Exchange
45565 (56F)
Victoria
Banked to Bowling Jn by 42184 (56F)
11 46 12 00
Bridlington
DMU
92
12 40 13 35
Scarborough Central
44694 (56D)
22¾
Piloted to York by D1542
For Manchester Exchange
15 27 15 35
Wakefield Kirkgate
DMU
69½
16 39 17 09
Sheffield Midland
44846 (9D)
27
11 55 ex-Yarmouth Vauxhall
18 18
Manchester Victoria
46¾
18 45
Manchester Exchange
DMU
19 29 19 39
Huddersfield
45647 (55C)
Sturdee
26
10 29 ex-Poole
Piloted from Greetland Jn by 42196 (56F)
20 18 20 38
Bradford Exchange
DMU
19
20 44 21 02
Halifax
42055 (56F)
8
19 35 ex-Stockport Edgeley
21 18 22 00
Bradford Exchange
45304 (9K)
8
22 53
Huddersfield
19
Saturday 16 July 1966
Time
(arr. dep.)
Location
Traction
Notes
Miles
02 00
Sheffield Midland
45697 (55A)
Achilles
For Leeds City
03 00 03 10
Normanton
61189 (56F)
Sir William Gray
28½
02 10 York/Manchester Victoria
Halifax
44890 (9D)
22
05 00 05 30
Hebden Bridge
45062 (9J)
8¾
04 20 Manchester Victoria/York
Normanton
61319 (50A)
27¼
07 15 08 05
Castleford Central
44910 (8L)
3½
For Blackpool North
09 04 09 36
Brighouse
44891 (9D)
20
09 06 Bradford Exchange/Poole
09 55 10 22
Huddersfield
45562 (55C)
Alberta
7
09 15 Leeds City/Llandudno
13 15 13 58
Rhyl
73006 (9H)
95
13 15 ex-Llandudno
16 15
Manchester Exchange
70
17 00
Manchester Piccadilly
27004
Juno
17 59
Sheffield Victoria
41½
18 11
Sheffield Midland
45581 (55C)
Bihar & Orissa
10 29 ex-Poole
Piloted from Greetland Jn by 42664 (56F)
20 15 20 30
Bradford Exchange
DMU
58
20 43 21 02
Halifax
42184 (56F)
8
19 35 ex-Stockport Edgeley
21 20 22 00
Bradford Exchange
61224 (56A)
8
22 53
Huddersfield
19
APPENDIX VI
RAILWAYS ACROSS THE PENNINES
Year
opened
Route
Company (*)
Current
status
1830
Cromford & High Peak
C&HPR
Closed 1967
1838
Newcastle & Carlisle
N&CR
Open
1841
Calder Valley
M&LR
Open
1845
Woodhead
SAL&MR
Closed 1981
1848
Standedge
LNWR
Open
1848
Colne & Skipton
L&BER
Closed 1970
1849
Copy Pit
L&YR
Open
1861
Stainmore
SD&LUR
Closed 1962
1863
Whaley Bridge/Buxton
LNWR
Open
1867
Chinley/Matlock
MR
Closed 1968
1876
Settle/Carlisle
MR
Open
1894
Hope Valley
MR
Open
(*) for company descriptions see glossary
APPENDIX VII
PRESERVED RAILWAYS IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND
Please visit these railways and support the efforts of the volunteers who willingly give their time to recreate the steam railway lost in the 1960s. Without them the heritage industry would be that much poorer and future generations would never be able to participate and enjoy the pleasures of steam-train travel:
Aln Valley Railway, Bowes Railway, Derwent Valley Light Railway, Eden Valley Railway, Elsecar Heritage Railway, Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, Kirklees Light Railway, Middleton Railway, North Tyneside Steam Railway, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, South Tyneside Railway, Stainmore Railway, Tanfield Railway, Weardale Railway, Wensleydale Railway, Yorkshire Wolds Railway.
SOURCES
Glossop Guild (Appendix VI)
Ian Allan British Railways Gradient Profiles
The Railway World magazine
Ian Allan 1966 Trains Annual
The LCGB Monthly Bulletin
The Engine Shed Society – BR Steam Locomotive Sheds and Allocations
Longworth, Hugh, BR Steam Locomotives 1948–1968
BR Database
Unless otherwise stated all images are from my collection. To view my website please visit http://mistermixedtraction.smugmug.com, then select one of twenty galleries – ‘The Orange Zone’ being particularly relevant to this book. Simply click on ‘slideshow’, sit back and enjoy. Anyone wishing to purchase copies of the images contained here please visit www.railwayimages.com where, under featured photographers, you will find my name and all my photographs of the final five years of BR steam.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Keith W
iddowson was born, to his pharmacist father and secretarial mother, during the calamitous winter of 1947 at St Mary Cray, Kent – attending the nearby schools of Poverest and Charterhouse. He joined British Railways in June 1962 as an enquiry clerk at the Waterloo telephone bureau – ‘because his mother had noted his obsession with collecting timetables’.
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