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Kenneth Gray page 11:
"BR standards et al."
999 locomotives were built to the BR
"standard" designs, under the direction of ex-LMS R.A. Riddles. Doubt
remains as to whether we needed so many different classes, or whether
they were needed at all. Clearly some classes were remarkably similar
(e.g. the 78xxx 2-6-0 and the 84xxx 2-6-2T) to existing (LMS) designs.
Given the appallingly short lives of the standards, it would perhaps
have made more sense to build more of the better existing designs - or,
with hindsight, to build diesels or electrify widely. It's true, of
course, that more locomotives were built by BR to pre-nationalisation
design than standard - no fewer than 100 "Black 5"s, more than 300
pannier tanks to GWR designs, and practically all of Peppercorn's, and
most of Thompson's LNER designs - all the A1s and K1s, and 136 B1s. Not
forgetting the building of 28 J72s - to a North Eastern design dating
from 1898!
I've also included the wartime
"austerity" 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 classes (unloved and relatively rarely
photographed as they were), including a little surprise many of us will
have forgotten about...
Sadly, there's an omission - no photos
of 71000.
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We start at the end, in a sense - last of
the class 7 "Britannia" class, 70054 "Dornoch Firth" (minus
nameplates) at Carlisle |
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Just 10 class 6 "Clans" were built
("standard"?), and they weren't well liked. The first 5, allocated
to Polmadie, were withdrawn in 1962. Kingmoor's five, including
72006 "Clan Mackenzie" lasted a little longer. |
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172 class 5 4-6-0s were built, and 23
survived into 1968. Polmadie's 73059 looks neat and tidy with this
train arriving from the north at Carlisle |
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30 of the 172 were built with Caprotti valve
gear - St Rollox-based 73149 is seen at Buchanan Street. |
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The 80 class 4 4-6-0s had wider route
availability than the 5s (standard "Manors", in effect). 10 were
still in service in 1968, the last ones surviving to the very end,
and 6 have been preserved. 75026 is at Machynlleth. |
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The class 4 2-6-0 - 115 of these were built,
surviving until 1967. Here's an interesting contrast between 76000
and an early EE type 1 |
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Class 3 2-6-0 77003 (with 76049) is on the
railtour marking the end of the Stainmore line - here seen at
Barnard Castle. 20 January 1962 |
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Class 2 2-6-0 - subtly different from the
LMS version. 78046 is apparently on railtour duties at, I think,
Edinburgh Princes Street. |
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The class 4 2-6-4T - first of the class no.
80000 at Glasgow Central. Coal-fired steam wasn't the cleanest
means of transport, ws it? |
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Class 3 2-6-2T - 82005 at Dovey Junction.
The Triang model of this locomotive was in my first train set,
nearly 50 years ago... |
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Class 2 2-6-2T - 84008 is one of the
Crewe-built batch. All had gone by the end of 1966 |
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Austerity 2-8-0 no. 90001 heads north at
Doncaster. Riddles's wartime development of the LMS 8F, there were
733 in BR service, finally going with the end of
steam in the north-east, September 1967
By contrast, just 25 2-10-0s were on the BR stocklist, all
in Scotland - including 90763. Gone by early-1963, 6 others
(which never saw BR service) survive - best-known is perhaps no.
600 "Gordon" on the SVR. Classmate no. 601 "Kitchener" saw BR
service briefly in the late 50s, during a motive power shortage in
Scotland. Seen here at Durran Hill, Carlisle |
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The 9F - the last, and widely reckoned to be
the best standard design. Intended purely for freight. they did
see passenger service - as evidenced by 92034 at Newcastle |
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Twenty of the 9Fs were built with the
Franco-Crosti boiler - which wasn't successful and was removed.
92020, looking sad and forlorn, appears to be awaiting the
operation... |
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