Does anyone have a list of Fairburn 2-6-4 tanks allocated to the North East (and dates)? The best known is 42073 which was allocated to Gateshead when it torpedoed a V2 on the diamond crossing at the east end of Central Station, but I presume there were others.
I'm primarily interested in Tyneside allocations.
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Re: Fairburn Tanks
Although I know it's a little south for your question, I know that 42085 and two other Fairburn tank locos were shedded at Whitby; however I do not know any dates.
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Re: Fairburn Tanks
Indeed, three of them in the 50s: 42083, 42084 and 42085
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Re: Fairburn Tanks
For a short period in the late 1950's, one of these three locomotives could be seen mid-afternoon at Driffield heading a train south, I was going to say Hull but they could equally have gone to York/Selby. I cannot remember them heading back north to Scarborough though.
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Re: Fairburn Tanks
Hi, NG,For a short period in the late 1950's, one of these three locomotives could be seen mid-afternoon at Driffield heading a train south
I have no recollection of seeing a Fairburn through Cottingham nor hearing about one, that is not to say that they did not appear, but, as you suggest, they could have headed towards Market Weighton.
What sort of train were they pulling? Passenger?
Tank engines were very unusual through Cottingham on any sort of train by the end of the 1950s apart from the big freeze up of DMUs in 1963, when V1/V3s had a short period of activity.
Maybe others know better, but I would not expect a Scarborough passenger train to be heading for either York or Selby via Driffield.
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