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Riding Yorkshire's Final Steam Trains

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by Keith Widdowson


  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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