BR DEPARTMENTAL DEPOTS & STABLING POINTS
The Ex-LNER Class B1 4-6-0 Departmental Locomotives
INCLUDING OPERATING LOCATIONS & SERVICING
FACILITIES
FACILITIES
Allocated to Colwick MPD as BR No.61194 when transferred to Departmental Stock on August 29th, 1965. It was allotted No.28 but never carried it and, although still officially based at Colwick MPD, sent to Thornton Fields Carriage Sidings in Stratford, London, travelling there under its own steam on August 21st, 1965. It was serviced at Stratford MPD and at some stage during the winter the locomotive was replaced by an oil burning heating plant. On March 5th, 1966 it was observed in No.2 Shop at Stratford MPD amongst engines scheduled for preservation. It was withdrawn in June 1966 and sold for scrap to A King & Sons Ltd of Norwich, being removed there on September 21st, 1966
THE LOCOMOTIVES
No.28
No.28
No.28 at the time of its official withdrawal, on June 19th, 1966 and still identified on the smokebox as 61194. It was stored amongst locos scheduled for preservation inside No.2 Shop at Stratford MPD.
Courtesy of Robert Pritchard
Courtesy of Robert Pritchard