4498 on the Southern

[upney sidings]

It's well known and documented that 4498 hauled two railtours out of Waterloo on June 3rd and 4th 1967 but does anyone know with certainty on which date she returned north?
Mike M.

[61962]

Mike,
According to Driver Bert Stewart in his book "On the Right Lines" he was sent with fireman Albert Hassal to collect 4498 from Nine Elms and return it to Crewe on 9th June 1967, after its expedition to the Southern.

Eddie

[Mickey]

On foreign metals...

Ex LNER A4 4498 coming off Nine Elms shed at Loco Shed Junction in June 1967 about a month before Nine Elms shed finally closed and the end of steam on the Southern. Looks like alone B.R. standard 4 on the extreme centre right.
https://svsfilm.com/nineelms/4498dougr.jpg photograph by Doug Richards

[upney sidings]

Mike,
According to Driver Bert Stewart in his book "On the Right Lines" he was sent with fireman Albert Hassal to collect 4498 from Nine Elms and return it to Crewe on 9th June 1967, after its expedition to the Southern.

Eddie

Thank you, Eddie. That's the perfect response. Appreciated.
Mike M.

[upney sidings]

One of my own shots of 4498 at Nine Elms shed on 3/6/67 ...........
https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-R ... /i-qK7bn3W

A quick move by car to Clapham Cutting enabled me to take this beauty .......
https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/Trains-R ... /i-ZkKKgRj

Mike M.

[Mickey]

Nice photos Mike.

I must admit the amateur colour film footage that I have seen on several Southern steam dvds of the run by 4498 from Waterloo to Weymouth in June 1967 along the LSWR mainline over the DC third rail sections that were aready laid in all the way by June 1967 along with mainly colour light signalling makes the garter blue A4 look a bit out of place in my mind especially when departing Waterloo amongst a 'sea of southern green' and the Southern Railway signal box in the background featuring a garter blue A4 with L N E R on the tender sides slowly departing the Southern terminus also I think 4498 is seen on Weymouth shed being coaled on the former GWR coal stage which was different from anything that loco would have used on the Eastern Region.