BR DEPARTMENTAL DEPOTS & STABLING POINTS
The Ex-LNER Class B1 4-6-0 Departmental Locomotives
INCLUDING OPERATING LOCATIONS & SERVICING
FACILITIES
FACILITIES
THE LOCOMOTIVES
No.24
No.24
No.24 seconded for temporary use as the stationary boiler at March MPD on April 11th, 1965 Courtesy of Robert Pritchard
Allocated to Kings Lynn in October 1963 as BR No.61375 and transferred to Departmental Stock on December 7th, 1963. It was initially allotted No.25 but renumbered as 24 when the original recipient No.61323 (qv) was prematurely withdrawn. It was used at Kings Lynn Carriage Sidings, east of the station, and was reportedly seen at this location minus connecting rods. The servicing arrangements can only be assumed at; Additional coaling may have been effected from a wagon but the method of water supply is not known. The loco could possibly have travelled light engine to March MPD on Saturdays for servicing and returned on Sunday evening. It was stored at March MPD during the summer months of 1964 and 1965 and transferred, under its own steam, to Norwich Thorpe MPD on March 5th, 1966 as a replacement for No.20. It was withdrawn shortly afterwards in April 1966 and stored at various points around the shed yard until June 7th, 1966 when it was sold for scrap to Birds Commercial Motors Ltd of Long Marston and cut up in August.