73050 departs Wansford tender first with the 14:20 service to Peterborough, 3rd May 2009. On entering traffic in 1954 it was one of three Standard class 5’s allocated to Bath Green Park MPD (73050 – 73052) for Somerset and Dorset line duties from Bath to Bournemouth. For these duties these three engines were built with the larger BR1G tender (normally fitted to Standard class 9F locomotives) which held 5000 gallons of water and 7 tons of coal. Whilst these tenders held slightly more water than most of the other types of BR1 tender fitted to the Standard class 5 locomotives (BR1 – 4250 gallons, BR1B – 4725 gallons, BR1C – 4725 gallons, BR1H – 4250 gallons) they were not the largest, which was the BR1F tender paired to 73110 – 73119 which held 5625 gallons. If water was an issue on the Somerset and Dorset line one wonders why the BR1F was not used on these three engines.
73050 departs Wansford tender first with the 14:20 service to Peterborough, 3rd May 2009. On entering traffic in 1954 it was one of three Standard class 5’s allocated to Bath Green Park MPD (73050 – 73052) for Somerset and Dorset line duties from Bath to Bournemouth. For these duties these three engines were built with the larger BR1G tender (normally fitted to Standard class 9F locomotives) which held 5000 gallons of water and 7 tons of coal. Whilst these tenders held slightly more water than most of the other types of BR1 tender fitted to the Standard class 5 locomotives (BR1 – 4250 gallons, BR1B – 4725 gallons, BR1C – 4725 gallons, BR1H – 4250 gallons) they were not the largest, which was the BR1F tender paired to 73110 – 73119 which held 5625 gallons. If water was an issue on the Somerset and Dorset line one wonders why the BR1F was not used on these three engines.
3rd May 2009
Steam
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Britannia 70013 Oliver Cromwell has just taken the Main to Goods crossover at Lenton South Junction prior to taking the road to Lenton North Junction with 1Z61 “The Palatine” special charter from London Victoria to Sheffield, 9th May 2009. The train was advertised as the “The Palatine” but the engine is carrying “The Cathedrals Express” headboard for some unknown reason. The last time I saw a Britannia at Lenton South Junction was in the summer of 1966 when 70026 Polar Star appeared totally unexpectedly on a parcels train from the Trent direction. Half an hour later Polar Star re-appeared light engine, being turned on the Mansfield Junction – Lenton North Junction – Lenton South Junction triangle and headed back towards Trent. Oliver Cromwell was built at Crewe Works and completed in May 1951. It was the very last steam locomotive to be overhauled at Crewe works and became the very last Pacific in service. Regular British Railways steam ended on 3rd August 1968, but the final “end of steam” specials did not run until the 11th August 1968 when 70013 was one of a small number of steam locomotives to haul British Railways last steam train passenger train, the Fifteen Guinea Special between Liverpool Lime Street and Carlisle. Following withdrawal it was on display for thirty six years at the Bressingham Steam Museum until moved to Loughborough in 2004 for overhaul and was steamed for the first time in forty years in the spring of 2008.Previous | Next73050 City of Peterborough passes Ailsworth with the 12:40 service from Peterborough, 3rd May 2009. The British Railways Standard class 5 4-6-0 was a development of the London Midland and Scottish Railway “Black 5”. One hundred and seventy two Standard class 5’s were built from 1951 until 1957 with 73050 being built at Derby works, being released to traffic on the 14th April 1954. It did not enter traffic immediately as it was chosen to represent the class at the

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