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Volume 26 Part A
WD Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 90000‑90399 – updated from amendments and queries only to full disposal details of the entire class including verification queries.
GWR 5700 Class 0-6-0PT No. 9768
GWR 5700 Class 0‑6‑0PT No. 9768 at Birmingham (Snow Hill) on a warm and sunny 2nd July 1962 with a train of mineral wagons – disposal location still to be verified. Photograph by Peter Hands View current information regarding 9768 in Volume 27
In search of “Pugs”
We were asked via Twitter a question relating to Pug engines by Dave Salter; @chasing_steam, two shunting locos, Annabel & Rosabel at Courtaulds Wolverhampton, in use or scrapped!!!!! #locos — Dave Salter (@PastieD) October 6, 2014 So we asked our team to look into these engines to see if we could unearth any information and […]
WHTS Volume Twenty One – Updated
‘CLASS 3 2‑6‑0’s Nos. 77000‑77019 CLASS 2 2‑6‑0’s Nos. 78000‑78064 CLASS 4 2‑6‑4T’s Nos. 80000‑80154 CLASS 3 2‑6‑2T’s Nos. 82000‑82044 & CLASS 2 2‑6‑2T’s Nos. 84000‑84029’ – updated from amendments and queries only to full disposal details of the entire class including verification queries.
SIMPLIFICATION OF WESTERN REGION STORAGE DATA INVOLVING SWINDON WORKS
To eliminate repetition, for example: Observed at the Dump on 28.8.61 – followed by – Observed at the Dump on 30.9.61 etc., I have devised a simpler system. This is as follows: STORE: WORKS DUMP and beneath this title are the relevant storage dates – 28.8.61 followed by 30.9.61. WHTS Volumes 1/2/6/10/14/20/22/27a/27b & 27C have […]
WHTS Volume Nineteen – Updated
‘CRABS’ & ‘STANIER CRABS’ Nos. 42700‑944 & 42945‑84 – updated from amendments and queries only to full disposal details of the entire class including verification queries.
Tales From Chasing Steam – EARLSWOOD LAKES March 1965 – Chapter Two
I was now into my second full month as a Class 3 signalman at Earlswood Lakes Signal Box and had settled into the pattern of six consecutive twelve hour day and nights shifts (72 hour week) on alternate weeks. The work wasn’t hard, far from it, but, as anyone will tell you, tiredness would creep […]
Tales From Chasing Steam – EARLSWOOD LAKES – CHAPTER NINE – OCTOBER 1965
With the summer, what little there was, long gone, the autumn mists, rainfall and dips in temperature became the gloomy norm in October. More gloom was on the horizon not only in the shape of the forthcoming end of steam on the Western Region but there were persistent rumours that the North Warwick line was […]
Battle of Britain Class 4-6-2 No 34067 Tangmere
Unrebuilt Battle of Britain Class 4‑6‑2 No 34067 Tangmere, from 70E Salisbury, pictured at 72C Yeovil on 23rd June 1963, was destined to escape the clutches of the scrapmen. Withdrawn in November 1963 it spent many years rotting away at Barry before being rescued in 1984. Photograph by Peter Hands
EARLY MEMORIES OF JOHN CASHMORE, GREAT BRIDGE by Keith King
‘During 1939 we moved house to 31 Canal Side, Golds Hill. At about the same time scrap metal started to arrive at Cashmore’s. The surprising thing is that I never managed to actually see anything being delivered during the daytime. It was only at weekends that I was able to ascertain what had actually arrived […]
From the spotting notes of Peter Hands on 25th July observed on this date in 1964.
Note: I did not possess a camera on this date but for added interest I have included five photographs taken at later dates of locomotives seen on 5.7.64 15E Coalville LMS: Class 4F 0‑6‑0’s Nos. 44043, 44051, 44113, 44134, 44210, 44244, 44334, 44433 (16C Derby), 44501, 44575 (16A Toton), 44581. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48053, 48315, […]
