BR DEPARTMENTAL DEPOTS & STABLING POINTS
The Ex-LNER Class B1 4-6-0 Departmental Locomotives
INCLUDING OPERATING LOCATIONS & SERVICING
FACILITIES
FACILITIES
Built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow for the LNER and entered service as No.1264 on December 5th, 1947. It was initially allocated to Parkeston MPD and remained there until it moved to Colwick MPD in November 1960. The locomotive was withdrawn from normal service in November 1965 as BR No.61264 and transferred to Departmental Stock and renumbered as No.29 in the same month. It was never employed on carriage heating, but replaced No.25 as the MPD stationary boiler. The locomotive, along with the depot, was transferred to the London Midland Region in January 1966 and this inadvertently secured the long-term existence of the engine. It was withdrawn in July 1967 and replaced by BR No.75016 and, after being stored at the MPD until June 1968, was sold for scrap to Woodham Brothers of Barry Island, rather than to one of those with contracts on the Eastern Region. It arrived at Barry in August 1968 and, along with many other locomotives here, was eventually purchased by a preservation group and restored to full working order, this one by the Thompson B1 Locomotive Trust
THE LOCOMOTIVES
No.29
The locomotive in Barry Yard in 1971. It was purchased by a group of enthusiasts [who later formed the Thompson B1 Locomotive Trust] for £6,325 in June 1974 and removed to the Great Central Railway at Loughborough in July 1976.
Thompson B1 Locomotive Trust
No.29 deep in the gloom at Colwick MPD on December 11th, 1966. It was in use as the depot stationary boiler and the centre driving wheels had been removed to improve access to the front of the ash pan. Courtesy of Robert Pritchard
After £230,000 of investment and 21 years of hard graft the locomotive was returned to active service in March 1997. It is seen here on a steam special between Scarborough and Driffield on March 13th, 2004. © Dave Johnson
No.29 in Barry Scrap Yard, not long after it had arrived, on September 21st, 1968 Derek Barham