Steam on Lincolnshire branchline in 1958
Steam on Lincolnshire branchline in 1958
I remember one daily freight service on the Lincolnshire Bardney to Louth line in 1958.
I am planning a OO model of Wragby (as we lived there in the station house) and can’t remember what type of Loco used to operate. It was definitely steam but I was only 9
Any one throw any light on this ?
I am planning a OO model of Wragby (as we lived there in the station house) and can’t remember what type of Loco used to operate. It was definitely steam but I was only 9
Any one throw any light on this ?
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Re: Steam on Lincolnshire branchline in 1958
Hi Herri. Not me. I was far away at that time.Herri wrote:I remember one daily freight service on the Lincolnshire Bardney to Louth line in 1958. ... model of Wragby (as we lived there in the station house)
However I love reading maps and especially looking at old real-life layouts.
I went to Google Maps and was surprised to find nary a trace of a line Bardney to Louth via Wragby.
I am not doubting your statement or memory at all. It's just that so often we see a narrow pathway with gentle curves that shows where the line used to be (sometimes 'Railway Terrace" running alongside). I can't recall ever seeing a railway line being swallowed up so comnpletely by the countryside. Admittedly sixty years have passed ...
I can see a presumably WW2 airfield about 2km NE of Bardney.
(later) I think I have found it; given away by a "Station Road" and to its SW a gentle curving line. Cheers
Chris
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You really need some definite local knowledge here. Quite often it is easy to guess the likely traction from what was allocated to the local sheds, but the choice in medium freight and mixed traffic tender loco classes from Boston, Lincoln, Louth and Immingham in 1959 (1958 won't have been much different!) is 'plentiful':
B1, J6, J11, J39, K2, K3, Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0 (and if you admit freight heavies, also O4, WD 2-8-0, 9F). I'd go for the pre-group 0-6-0s, J6 or J11 if the loads were modest, because pick up goods was the kind of work they were retained for.
Just in case it is of use.
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/wragby/
Good luck with it!
B1, J6, J11, J39, K2, K3, Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0 (and if you admit freight heavies, also O4, WD 2-8-0, 9F). I'd go for the pre-group 0-6-0s, J6 or J11 if the loads were modest, because pick up goods was the kind of work they were retained for.
Just in case it is of use.
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/wragby/
Good luck with it!
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Re: Steam on Lincolnshire branchline in 1958
That looks to be the station site with the through line close to one boundary. Despite the land on the other side of Station Road having been cleared and put to grass, the line of the track can still be seen as a shadow across the site. That it links up with the hedgerows continuing onwards is just the bonus confirmation.
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This is, I belive, a G-something-or-other, LNER afficianados will know better.
http://disused-stations.org.uk/b/bardney/index6.shtml
This, on the other hand, is definitely a Brittania. I would hazard a guess that it was not the regular pick-up goods loco but the 'light engine' headlamp code offers no clue as exactly what it is doing shunting a wayside station !
http://disused-stations.org.uk/b/bardney/index39.shtml
http://disused-stations.org.uk/b/bardney/index6.shtml
This, on the other hand, is definitely a Brittania. I would hazard a guess that it was not the regular pick-up goods loco but the 'light engine' headlamp code offers no clue as exactly what it is doing shunting a wayside station !
http://disused-stations.org.uk/b/bardney/index39.shtml
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EX GCR Robinson 4-6-2T, LNER and BR 'A5' (possibly one of the Gresley batch as he built a few more lightly modified, but without the number I cannot tell, that would need a specialist...).stuartp wrote:This is, I believe, a G-something-or-other, LNER afficianados will know better.
http://disused-stations.org.uk/b/bardney/index6.shtml...
FYI a G is an 0-4-4 in the LNER's scheme of loco coding.
https://www.lner.info/locos/locos.php
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Thanks Bigmet. Goodness knows where I got G from !
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Welcome to the Forum Herri.
Looking at the third station north from Wragby this photo of a freight shows a J11 passing through Donington-on-Bain in April 1951.
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/d/do ... dex3.shtml
Not necessarily a pick-up goods but certainly the J11 is a good contender for appropriate motive power.
Looking at the third station north from Wragby this photo of a freight shows a J11 passing through Donington-on-Bain in April 1951.
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/d/do ... dex3.shtml
Not necessarily a pick-up goods but certainly the J11 is a good contender for appropriate motive power.
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Good spot. And how I agree that the locally shedded smaller pregroup design 0-6-0s would be the likely traction.Ex-Pat wrote:...Looking at the third station north from Wragby this photo of a freight shows a J11 passing through Donington-on-Bain in April 1951...
By the proposed date of 1958, these were no longer well suited to mainline work, for which there was a more than adequate selection of larger traction in the area anyway. But for jogging around what was by that date a goods only section, where facilities such as watering might by then have been reduced, they have the assets of a large water supply in the tender tank, adequate power, and mechanical simplicity such that an experienced crew could usually overcome any minor problems. But leave aside the analysis, they are such attractive locos as a type, and happily the J11 can be got in RTR. (Sadly no J6 as yet, but here's hoping; or I will have to get to work as my ancient kitbash is really past it.)
Re: Steam on Lincolnshire branchline in 1958
An interesting idea, Herri. Are you thinking of operating it as freight only in 1958 or in another timeframe? In 1958 there may be Summer Saturday's only Holiday Specials to Cleethorpes operated by (maybe) a 'foreign' 4.6.0 locomotive on the line. I have been on a few in the late 1950s and travelled on secondary routes.
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Re: Steam on Lincolnshire branchline in 1958
Thanks guys for the input.
I am looking at using my artists licence to create a slightly later period assuming Mr Beeching didn’t exist.
The branchline is extended and DMUs are running (must have as my father worked at the Lincoln diesel shed as an electrical engineer) and Wragby’s goods traffic has increased.
I just fancied at least one steam loco that wouldn’t look totally out of place.
Well, thats the plan.
I am looking at using my artists licence to create a slightly later period assuming Mr Beeching didn’t exist.
The branchline is extended and DMUs are running (must have as my father worked at the Lincoln diesel shed as an electrical engineer) and Wragby’s goods traffic has increased.
I just fancied at least one steam loco that wouldn’t look totally out of place.
Well, thats the plan.
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How are you getting on? (I was reminded of your project by spotting a s/h class 105 DMU for sale in 'speed whiskers' livery at a reasonable price. I thought about it a little, then a couple of hours later decided to buy and it had gone...)Herri wrote:...
The branchline is extended and DMUs are running (must have as my father worked at the Lincoln diesel shed as an electrical engineer) and Wragby’s goods traffic has increased. I just fancied at least one steam loco that wouldn’t look totally out of place...
Something I forgot to mention in the way of steam for your GE section location in 1959. From 1958 the N7 0-6-2T's were significantly displaced from the Liverpool Street suburban services, and some were dispersed 'into the country'. That's another possibility for a steam loco that might have turned up at Wragby. There's a good model from Oxford Rail at a reasonable price.
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In summer holidays 1958 I could usually be found train-spotting on the line into Cleethorpes station, and one day word spread that honest, there's an A4 sitting at the end of the siding on the seafront at Suggitt's Lane. And indeed there was. Can't remember which one, only that it was green, the crew was friendly, and it seemed to be there for ages.glencairn wrote:... In 1958 there may be Summer Saturday's only Holiday Specials to Cleethorpes operated by (maybe) a 'foreign' 4.6.0 locomotive on the line. I have been on a few in the late 1950s and travelled on secondary routes ...
Now, it was very rare indeed for anything at all to be seen in that siding apart from the odd coal wagon or two, this being explained by the blokes who manned the crossing in the summer telling us that it had been put in after the 1953 floods for the delivery of ballast and materials for the great rebuilding of the sea wall in that area. Furthermore, it was a "known fact" among we spotters that the reason why we never ever saw a Pacific at Cleethorpes was because of the tight bend past the fish docks at Grimsby, so in later years I eventually assumed that I must have imagined the whole thing.
Two years ago, a random series of events led to me establishing email contact with a school pal, and one day our trainspotting days came up. Sure enough "Did you ever see that streak in the siding at Suggitt's Lane?" says he! But we still don't know which one it was nor why it was there. We have though discovered that the siding in question was actually a very long headshunt off the New Clee sidings a couple of miles away, which, if anything, only adds to the mystery.
Verily, there's a prototype for everything ...
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(Hope I’m not posting twice here)
Getting on ok. Having some issues with my reverse loop module.
I also tried to order 3 DMUs, 2 in the UK and one in Germany (Bachmann) although my money has gone, nothing has actually arrived. I hope this is a Covid thing and not what is “normal “ in model rail world.
Surfing the web, it seems there are stock issues everywhere, also for track.
Getting on ok. Having some issues with my reverse loop module.
I also tried to order 3 DMUs, 2 in the UK and one in Germany (Bachmann) although my money has gone, nothing has actually arrived. I hope this is a Covid thing and not what is “normal “ in model rail world.
Surfing the web, it seems there are stock issues everywhere, also for track.
Re: Steam on Lincolnshire branchline in 1958
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