D9504 stands in the yard at Wansford with 22nd May 2009. One of a class of fifty six Type 1 0-6-0 diesel hydraulic (subsequently class 14) locomotives it was built at Swindon Works in 1964 for shunting and short trip freight duties. The locomotive is powered by a six cylinder Paxman Ventura 6YJXL engine producing 650bhp, connected to a Voith L217U hydraulic transmission and Hunslet gearbox. The axles were connected by coupling rods and driven by a jackshaft located under the cab, clearly visable between the second and third axles. Initially allocated to Landore MPD in South Wales it was one of thirty three that transferred in January 1967 to Hull (Dairycoates) for North Eastern Region duties and was withdrawn from there in April 1968. I first saw this engine shortly after withdrawal when all thirty three Hull class 14 engines were dumped on the shed (many round the turntable in the roundhouse) waiting sale or disposal. D9504 was sold to the National Coal Board for use on its extensive rail system at Lampton colliery in the North East. It was numbered 506 in the NCB fleet. It later transferred to the Ashington colliery system. On closure of the colliery it was sold for preservation although it has also been used on engineers trains on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link during its construction and as yard shunter at Bardon Hill quarry.
D9504 stands in the yard at Wansford with 22nd May 2009. One of a class of fifty six Type 1 0-6-0 diesel hydraulic (subsequently class 14) locomotives it was built at Swindon Works in 1964 for shunting and short trip freight duties. The locomotive is powered by a six cylinder Paxman Ventura 6YJXL engine producing 650bhp, connected to a Voith L217U hydraulic transmission and Hunslet gearbox. The axles were connected by coupling rods and driven by a jackshaft located under the cab, clearly visable between the second and third axles. Initially allocated to Landore MPD in South Wales it was one of thirty three that transferred in January 1967 to Hull (Dairycoates) for North Eastern Region duties and was withdrawn from there in April 1968. I first saw this engine shortly after withdrawal when all thirty three Hull class 14 engines were dumped on the shed (many round the turntable in the roundhouse) waiting sale or disposal. D9504 was sold to the National Coal Board for use on its extensive rail system at Lampton colliery in the North East. It was numbered 506 in the NCB fleet. It later transferred to the Ashington colliery system. On closure of the colliery it was sold for preservation although it has also been used on engineers trains on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link during its construction and as yard shunter at Bardon Hill quarry.
22nd May 2009
Preserved "Modern Image"
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Taken using a Canon EOS 400D
2062 is Castlecroft yard pilot which is just north of Bury Bolton Street station on the East Lancs Railway and is seen here shunting the yard, 24th May 2009. Originally D2062 it was built at Doncaster and entered traffic in June1959 allocated to Selby MPD. It quickly transferred to York MPD one month later where it was to remain for almost ten years before transfer in February 1969 to Hull Dairycoates MPD. After nine months it transferred again to Barrow Hill for almost a year for Staveley Iron Works duties before its final transfer to Norwich in October 1970. It was renumbered 03062 under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme. It was withdrawn in December 1980 due to the general decline in class 03 duties and the favouring of dual braked examples at the expense of the still vacuum brake only 03062. Following withdrawal it was stored at Swindon works awaiting disposal until sold for preservation at the Dean Forest Railway where it arrived in May 1982. After fifteen years at the Dean forest Railway it moved to the East lancs Railway in February 1997.Previous | NextE51813 sits in the sidings at Leeming Bar, Wensleydale Railway, 4th May 2009 and is a class 110 Driving Motor Brake Composite (DMBC). Built by the Birmingham Carriage and Wagon Company in 1961 as part of thirty sets (three car) built to operate services on the former Lancashire and Yorkshire main line and were allocated to Neville Hill and Newton Heath. These sets spent their entire careers based around this area and earned them the name of the 'Calder Valley' sets. This arduous route meant they required more power than other DMU sets, so they were fitted with 180hp Rolls Royce engines which gave them the best hp/ton of any of the first generation DMU’s. A serious early problem for the class was their habit of catching fire, due to the poor routing of the exhausts and also heater problems. The first vehicles to be withdrawn were E51821/37 on the 9th November 1963, due to a fire at Sowerby Bridge. A fire at Hammerton Street depot destroyed E59706 and M52074/59705 were withdrawn in the late 1960s. In the first ten years in traffic the class had suffered ninety two fires in the ninety vehicles. This led to a series of modifications which eventually reduced this problem. By the early 1970’s there were twenty eight complete three car sets and one spare DMC left in traffic and they were included in the DMU refurbishment program which commenced in the mid 1970’s, however the work did not commence on this class until 1979. The cost of refurbishment of a spare power car could not be justified, so the worst one, E51848, was withdrawn in 1979. In the early 1980’s the West Yorkshire PTE adopted a policy of reducing DMU sets to two-cars wherever possible to meet public transport spending limitations imposed by Parliament. Services required only nine three-car class 110 sets for peak workings, and so eighteen trailers (fifteen recently refurbished) were withdrawn in 1983, leaving ten three car sets and eighteen two car sets. These units fell victim to the influx of the second generation DMU’s and were withdrawn in the early 1990’s, however E51813 along with E51842 were bought for preservation and made their passenger debut on the 2nd March 1991 on the East Lancashire Railway. Centre car E59701was later bought from the Battlefield Railway and the three car set moved to the Wensleydale Railway in 2003.

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