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D 49 The Morpeth
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:15 pm
by gswr
I believe this locomotive had to be scrapped following an accident at Dragon Junction nr. Harrogate. Does anyone have any more details as to what happened?
Re: D 49 The Morpeth
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:37 am
by Kestrel
Re: D 49 The Morpeth
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:50 pm
by 52D
The normally reliable Railway Archive has nothing on this crash
Re: D 49 The Morpeth
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:25 pm
by drmditch
According to RCTS, Part 4, Page 97 :-
'62768, as it had then become, happened to be the middle one of three Hunt class engines which were involved in collision during shunting movements at Dragon Junction, near Starbeck. It was appreciably damaged about the front end, so it's own t5ender (which escaped damage) was exchanged for the damaged tender of No.62758 and the two cripples were withdrawn from stock.'
There are a number of pictures of the damaged engine, one being on Yeadon Vol 10, page 68. The front of the frames and the cylinder block are much distorted. Since it was a 'one off' and a not very successful one at that it would not have been worth making new cylinder castings.
I think I have seen another account of the accident, in an article about Starbeck Shed in the NERA Express. I'll try to look it up after Christmas.
Since it was a shunting accident on non-passenger (?) lines, and no-one was reported injured then presumably there would not have been any report by external authorities.
Re: D 49 The Morpeth
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:10 pm
by gswr
Thanks very much for the information re:62768 The Morpeth. I seem to remember that this was caused by a signalman's error so is in line with your reply.