Abbreviations
Abbreviations employed to advise the reader of the sources of sightings and disposals.
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- AB Andrew Biwandi
- AH Amanda Hambidge
- AM Alan Maund, courtesy of Bill Bridgens
- AR Alan Rowles (Sheffield)
- AS Alec Swain
- AW Tony Wakefield
- AWt Alan Wolstencroft
- AY Arnott, Young & Co. (Official Sales Document)
- BB Bill Bridgens
- BK Bryan King (Neath Railway Historical Society)
- BL Barry List
- BP Bill Perry
- BRI British Railways Illustrated
- BRS BR Steaming – (Defiant Publications) On the East Coast Mainline
- BT Back Track (Pendragon Publications)
- BY Barry: The History of the Yard and its Locomotives by Peter Brabham (OPC)
- C Castles – The Final Years 1954 to 1965 by Lawrence Waters published by Ian Allan
- CB Chris Brown
- CP Christopher Parkinson – custodian of John Bates & Brian Hudson’s records
- CR Chasewater Railway (Barry Bull)
- CV Chris Vale
- CWL Central Wagon List (unofficial)
- DCW David Williams (Editor SVR News)
- DD David Druce
- DH David Hurst
- DKJ D.K. Jones
- DL David Lennon
- DM David Milburn
- DN David Needham
- DOH BR Locomotives Cut Up by Drapers of Hull by Brian Egan (Hutton Press Ltd)
- DR David Rostance
- DT David Thorpey
- DW Dave Wragg
- DWd David Ward
- DWn David Whittaker
- EO Eric Oates
- EOTL End of the Line by Eric Sawford (Sutton Publishing Ltd)
- FR The Fall and Rise of British Railways Steam, by John Stretton and Peter Townsend
- GD Grant Dowie: A Hard Day’s Week Rail Rover Trainspotting on LM Region – Aug 1965
- GE Geoff Emson
- GK Gordon Kincla
- GWRK Great Western Railway Kings (SLS Pamphlet)
- HB Hughes Bolckow Ltd (official sales documentation)
- HF Heavy Freight
- HR Heritage Railway 3.2017 + 4. 2017
- HR 226 Heritage Railway Hughes and Stanier 2‑6‑0’s
- IC Ian Cook – 6g.nwrail.org.uk
- IM Ian MacLachlan
- IS Ian Slater
- IT Ian Taylor
- JA Jim Arkell
- JAT John A. Thickitt
- JL Jim Langston
- JLy John Laney
- JO John Oates
- JR John Roberts (Australia) – courtesy of Bill Bridgens
- KB Keith Beddoes
- KK Keith King
- KL Keith Long
- KLw K Partlow
- KP Ken Plant (Courtesy of Bob Plant)
- KRM Kidderminster Railway Museum (Archives)
- KSN Kidderminster Shedmaster’s Notebook, c/o Kidderminster Railway Museum (Archives)
- LCGB Locomotive Club of Great Britain (Bulletin)
- LINK Link – The Journal of the Engine Shed Society
- LRC Lancashire Railway Circle
- LW Leslie Wheeler
- MH Michael Harvey
- ML Margaret Lippiatt
- MM Mike Macleur
- MP Mal Pratt
- MR Malcolm Richards
- MRM Modern Railways Magazine
- NF Norris Forrest
- NG Norman Glover
- PAC Portraits of Castles – Bryan Holden & Kenneth H. Leech. Barbryn Press Ltd. 1981
- PAK Portraits of Kings – Bryan Holden & Kenneth H. Leech. Barbryn Press Ltd. 1979
- PB Peter Brabham
- PBH Peter Hands
- PGH Peter G. Hughes
- PH Pete Hackney
- PJST Peter Thorpe
- PK Peter Kellett
- PM Phil Mathison – Shed Bashing With The Beatles – Dead Good Publications
- PMn P Martin
- PP Pannier Papers – Volume 1 – (Irwell Press
- PW Peter Wilcox
- RA Ralph Amos (spotting notes)
- RB Roger Butcher
- RBt Raymond Beckett
- RC Robert Cowsill
- RCTS Railway Correspondence & Travel Society – Publications
- RD Robert Dudley
- RF Ray Franks
- RI Requiem at Ince (Book Law Publications)
- RJ Railway Journal (Walsall Locomotive Society)
- RJFM Roger Mills
- RH Ronald Rhodes
- RJn Roger Johnson
- RM Railway Magazine
- RO Railway Observer (RCTS)
- RP Robert Plant – Courtesy of Bob Plant
- RS Book of the Royal Scots (Irwell Press)
- RT Roy Turner
- RW Roger Walker
- RWM Railway World Magazine
- SBUK Shed Bash UK
- SD Steam Days Magazine
- SFS Steam for Scrap
- SLS Stephenson Locomotive Society – monthly journal
- SM Steam Memories (Book Law Publications)
- SMA Shed Master Archives
- SMPC Steam Motive Power Centres (Book Law Publications)
- SO Stuart Ottaway
- SOS Steam on Shed – By John Stretton (Blandford Press 1984)/li>
- SR Steam Railway 6.2017 + 7.2017
- SRN Scottish Railfans News Sheet
- STS Scrapping the Southern by Jeffery Grayer (Noodle Books)
- STTS BR Steaming Through the Sixties (Defiant Publications)
- SW Steam World Magazine
- TF Tony Ford
- TI Trains Illustrated
- TR Tony Ratcliffe
- TNA The National Archives, Kew
- RAIL 254/512 Locomotive Stock book – No 3
- RAIL 254/246 1957
- RAIL 254/247 1958
- RAIL 254/248 1959
- RAIL 254/249 1960
- RAIL 254/250 1961
- RAIL 254/251 1962
- RAIL 254/252 1962
- RAIL 254/253 1962
- RAIL 254/254 1963
- RAIL 254/255 1963
- RAIL 254/256 1963
- RAIL 254/257 1964
- RAIL 254/258 1964
- AN 7/129 Engine Record Cards. 60001‑61149
- AN 7/27 Engine Record Cards. 70000‑90059
- AN 7/28 Engine Record Cards. 90060‑92249
- AN 7/130 Engine Record Cards. 61150‑61900
- ZL1B5/353 The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway: Part Twelve (RCTS) {courtesy of Keith Beddoes}
- AN7/131 Engine Record Cards. 61901‑62694
- AN7/132 Engine Record Cards. 63340‑63900
- AN7/133 Engine Record Cards. 63901‑64900
- AN 7/134 Engine Record Cards. 64901‑65757
- AN 7/135 Engine Record Cards. 65758‑67599
- AN 7/136 Engine Record Cards. 67600‑68549
- AN 7/137 Engine Record Cards. 68550‑69400
- AN 7/138 Engine Record Cards. 69401‑69999
- TRN The Railway New Sheet of the Birmingham & District Loco Spotters Club
- TT The Turntable (Official Magazine of the Warwickshire Railway Society)
- VAS Victor A. Smith
- VS Vic Smith
- WACS ‘Bill Smith’ – (courtesy of Roger Johnson)
WD The WD Austerity 2‑8‑0’s (Booklaw Publications)
- Y Yeadon’s Register of Locomotives
* Incorrect WHTS entry. M ay have been supplied (fabricated) by the rogue correspondent.