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Hornby 46251 City Of Nottingham Coronation Class resplendent in Maroon livery



Nottingham pulling a rake of coaches through the yard

On 17 Apr 1948, locomotive No. 6251 City of Nottingham was hauling a mail train which was in a rear-end collision with a passenger train at Winsford, Cheshire. In the first major accident for the newly formed British Railways, 24 people were killed and thirty injured.
[source - Wikipedia]

Next another Goliath of Steam ..............



Hornby 92220 Class 9F Evening Star in BR Brunswick green livery (normally reserved for passenger locomotives) all other members of the class were painted unlined black.



Taking a rake of Parcel Vans to the depot

Built at Swindon railway works in 1960 it was the 999th locomotive of the whole British Railways Standard range. 92220 was withdrawn in 1965, after a working life of only five years and put into storage. It was subsequently preserved as part of the National Collection.[source - Wikipedia]

Heljan D8201 Class 15 crawling through the yard looking rather dirty entered service between November 1957 and November 1958.
Trailing behind D8201 are a couple of empty container wagons being manoeuvred into the headshunt.

The class were troubled by several reliability problems, notably with the engines which were found to require excessive maintenance. With a decline in freight duties in the London area, and as a relatively small and non-standard class, the type was considered surplus to requirements by the late 1960s. All were withdrawn from capital stock between April 1968 and March 1971. Only D8233 was purchased for preservation in 1984, and is now the only survivor of the type.

Heljan D5904 Class 23 on site looking prim and proper. Class 23 was also similar to the Class 55, but much shorter, leading to their nickname of Baby Deltics
D5904 powering through the yard with a newspaper train in tow.

The 'Baby Deltics', being only a ten-strong class, and beset with operational problems, were withdrawn between 1968 and 1971.On 5 September 2010, the Baby Deltic Project announced its plans to recreate a replica of the class. This is being achieved by way of shortening 37372's body in three places and mounting it on Class 20 bogies. The locomotive can be viewed in the Barrow Hill Roundhouse near Chesterfield where it currently undergoing the transformation from 37372 into D5910.

I'd forgotten about this thread so I think it's time for an update. Some stock has gone (sold online) and I've purchased more to either keep or on-sell.

losses:-

Class 9F Evening Star 92220 was sold as it was getting a little run down and missing it's brass piping, someone is now enjoying it albeit a little bare in the piping.

D814 Dragon Class 42 was also sold to a guy in Thailand, just goes to show BR diesel's get everywhere!

gains:-

Class 50 Eagle 50043 in BR Blue with large logo is being prepared for the layout....
Class 50 Valiant 50015 in Dutch Departmental livery has been given a new look too