CARNFORTH
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0 No. 44713 (10D Lostock Hall) on a parcels train to Barrow and Workington.
LMS CLASS 5 4‑6‑0 No. 44713
The ‘old order’ at Carnforth, soon to be swept away for many a year. LMS Class 5 4‑6‑0 No. 44713, from 10D Lostock Hall, heads west with a short parcels train bound for Barrow/Workington on a wet 22nd June 1968. No. 44713 survived until the end of steam, leaving Lostock Hall, a depot it had been allocated to since June 1967, for Draper’s scrapyard on 10th March 1969.
Photograph by Peter Hands
10A CARNFORTH
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 44709, 44874, 44894, 44897, 44963, 45017, 45025, 45095, 45134, 45209, 45342, 45390, 45435, 45445. Class 8F 2‑8‑0 No. 48393 (10F Rose Grove).
BR: Britannia Class 4‑6‑2 No. 70013 Oliver Cromwell. Class 4 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 75009, 75020, 75048. Class 9F 2‑10‑0’s Nos. 92077, 92160, 92167.
LMS CLASS 5 4‑6‑0 No. 44874
Steam to spare beneath the coaling plant at 10A Carnforth on 22nd June 1968. Pride of place goes to LMS Class 5 4‑6‑0 No. 44874 a resident of Carnforth MPD since August 1961. Accompanying No. 44874 is sister locomotive No. 45025, a relative newcomer to the books at Carnforth in April 1966. These locos shared entirely different fates: 44874 cut up by Draper’s – 45025 preserved on the Strathspey Railway.
Photograph by Peter Hands
PRESERVED LOCOMOTIVES
LMS: Class 4 2‑6‑4T’s Nos. 42073, 42085. Class 2 2‑6‑0 No. 46441.
LNER: B1 Class 4‑6‑0 No. 61306.
LOCOMOTIVES IN STORE
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0 No. 45424. Class 8F 2‑8‑0 No. 48124.
BR: Class 9F 2‑10‑0’s Nos. 92088, 92091, 92118, 92223.
10D LOSTOCK HALL
LMS: Class 4 2‑6‑0 No. 43106. Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 44806, 44816, 44878, 44942, 44950, 44971, 45149, 45212, 45305, 45345, 45353, 45386, 45407, 45444. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48253, 48293, 48294, 48476, 48546, 48646, 48765.
LOCOMOTIVES IN STORE
LMS: Class 4 2‑6‑0’s Nos. 43019, 43027. Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 44683, 44761, 45436. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48445, 48763.
LMS CLASS 8F 2‑8‑0 No. 48476
A crowded scene in the depot yard at 10D Lostock Hall on 22nd June 1968. From left to right are: LMS Class 5 ‑4‑6‑0 No. 44806, LMS Class 8F 2‑8‑0 No. 48476, LMS Class 5 4‑6‑0 No. 45212, LMS Class 8F 2‑8‑0 No. 48294 and LMS Class 5 4‑6‑0 No. 44971 – all allocated to 10D. It is pleasing to note that out of these five locos listed, two, Nos. 44806 and 45212 were saved for posterity.
Photograph by Peter Hands
10F ROSE GROVE
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 44690, 44899, 45350, 45382, 45397. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48115, 48167, 48191, 48247, 48257, 48278, 48323, 48348, 48384, 48400, 48410, 48423, 48448, 48493, 48519, 48666, 48715, 48723 (10D Lostock Hall), 48727, 48730.
BR: Class 4 4‑6‑0 No. 75027 (10A Carnforth).
LOCOMOTIVE IN STORE
LMS: Class 8F 2‑8‑0 No. 48081.
9K BOLTON
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0 No. 44802, 44871, 44877 (10A Carnforth), 44888, 44929, 44947, 45046, 45073 – seen later at 9D Newton Heath, 45110, 45260, 45269, 45290, 45312, 45318. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48026, 48168, 48319, 48340, 48380, 48392, 48504, 48652, 48692, 48720, 48773.
LOCOMOTIVES IN STORE
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 44664, 44829, 45104, 45381. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48111, 48465, 48532, 48702, 48744.
9H PATRICROFT
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 44777, 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry, 45187, 45287. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48033, 48775.
BR: Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 73010, 73050, 73069, 73125, 73133, 73134, 73143.
LOCOMOTIVES IN STORE
LMS: Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48170, 48212, 48267, 48282, 48325, 48327, 48338, 48374, 48390, 48453, 48467, 48491, 48549, 48553.
BR: Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 73040, 73126, 73128, 73135, 73138, 73142, 73157. Class 9F 2‑10‑0 No. 92218.
LMS CLASS 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 45156 and 45287
Patricroft MPD consisted of two straight running sheds at right angles to one another and in its heyday was a hive of steam activity, but by 22nd June 1968, one week before closure, it was a shadow of its former self with few ‘live’ steam engines on show. Two exceptions were LMS Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 45156, with painted nameplates – Ayrshire Yeomanry – and 45287. Both lived on for a few short weeks at 10F Rose Grove.
Photograph by Peter Hands
9F HEATON MERSEY
LOCOMOTIVES IN STORE
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 44663, 44903, 45065, 45190, 45253, 45282, 45392. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48117, 48197, 48224, 48252, 48292, 48317, 48322, 48329, 48365, 48471, 48551, 48684.
9D NEWTON HEATH
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 44735, 44781 (9K Bolton), 44808, 44818, 44884, 44949, 45073 (9K Bolton), 45096 (10F Rose Grove), 45200, 45206, 45268, 45310, 45330. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48368, 48529, 48665.
LOCOMOTIVES IN STORE
LMS: Class 5 4‑6‑0’s Nos. 44780, 44803, 44890, 44891, 45101, 45202, 45254, 45411, 45420. Class 8F 2‑8‑0’s Nos. 48132, 48321, 48356, 48369, 48373, 48533, 48612, 48620, 48678, 48687, 48746.
BR: Class 9F 2‑10‑0 No. 92054
LMS CLASS 5 4‑6‑0 Nos. 45200 and 45096
With only one week to go before the end of steam at 9D Newton Heath the heavens have opened as though in sympathy for this final curtain. Photographed on 22nd June 1968 are a trio of LMS Class 5 4‑6‑0’s. From left to right are: 45200 (9D), 45096, from 10F Rose Grove (stencilled on the buffer‑beam), and 44949 (9D). The latter died upon closure of Newton Heath, but 45096 and 45200 lingered on briefly at Carnforth and Rose Grove.
Photograph by Peter Hands
