Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2022 i Steam Days

Colour-Rail.com/100446 In the last issue ofSteam Days I presented an overview of the two ‘Crossrail’ type routes across Glasgow, both of which are subterranean beneath the heart of the city, the North British Railway/LNER route through the Low Level platforms of Glasgow (Queen Street), and the Caledonian Railway/LMS line that served the Low Level platforms of the company’s Glasgow (Central) station. Each of these served the north side of the River Clyde, with Helensburgh and Balloch the western extremities for the NBR, and also Balloch for the CR, and a myriad of terminating points east and south of the city. In addition, west of the city there were east-facing termini, and to the west there were west-facing equivalents that allowed a vast number of service options, and these continued to…

Tyseley steam in 1964 Sir: It was a delight to read Steve Bartlett’s article on Tyseley’s use of ‘Castles’ in 1964 (Steam Days, November 2021). The permanent allocation of four-cylinder 4-6-0s at Tyseley was a surprise at the time, the only precedent coming to mind being the allocation in the 1940s of ‘Star’ No 4058 Princess Augusta. No 4058 was brought in to operate the Birmingham-Cardiff service via Stratford-upon-Avon when wartime passenger numbers using the service seriously outstripped the capacity of the diesel railcars introduced in 1934. The article mentions the use of ‘Castles’ on certain peak-hour commuter services to and from Snow Hill. They shared this work with a variety of other GW classes until timetable changes in September 1964. I worked just round the corner from Snow Hill…

BR Britannia Class Designed by R. A. Riddles and introduced in 1951 the Britannia Class was the first British Railways standard design ta appear. A total of 55 of the Class were all built at Crewe works with the final engine entering traffic in 1954. With just two outside cylinders it was a practical design built for ease of maintenance. In spite of this the locomotive was a handsome and well proportioned design. A real favourite among railway enthusiasts. With its 74" driving wheels it was an archetypal passenger express and looks at home, at speed, at the head of a long rake of Mk 1 coaches. Allocated to all regions the locomotives remained in service to the very end of the British steam era with 70013 Oliver Cromwell hauling…

Eric Sawford/Transport Treasury Huntingdonshire was not a county noted for railway activity and although the Great Northern main line ran through the western side of the country, indeed serving the county town, its trains ran through the shire in less than half an hour and none of the stations saw much in the way of the operating activity that one would find at either Peterborough or Hitchin, main line junctions to the north and south respectively. The GNR main line was crossed near Huntingdon by a straggling branch of the Midland Railway – almost certainly the quietest cross-country line in the country – and few enthusiasts gave any thought to the fact that a few minutes east of Huntingdon lay the quiet rural market town of St Ives, but it…

Nigel Kendall/ANISTR.COM One of the biggest surprises of 1966 was the transfer of a British Railways Standard ‘3MT’ 2-6-0 from Northwich to Guildford – Andrew Wilson remembers the initial disbelief among the trainspotters at his grammar school on Battersea High Street. Yet the rumours were true, No 77014 had been moved south, and after the ‘3MT’ was noted passing through Basingstoke on Thursday, 17 March, he saw it nine days later on Nine Elms shed, espied from the windows of the local YMCA where he was supposed to be learning to play golf. The tank engine versions of the BR Standard ‘3MT’ were well known to Southern Region enthusiasts as Nos 82010-19 and 82022-25 went new to Exmouth Junction shed in 1952 and 1954, and then since November 1962 no…

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