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Hi,

Having spent just over a week at the NYMR, B1 61306, now makes its way to Washwood Heath M C,
here passing through Sth Yorkshire.

To view the photos please visit, http://trev11.zenfolio.com/p464070425

Trev

Ay up!

Great piccies as always, Trev. I wouldn't have thought apple green would suit a B1 but it does. Most handsomely!

Blink Bonny wrote:Ay up!

Great piccies as always, Trev. I wouldn't have thought apple green would suit a B1 but it does. Most handsomely!

Thanks BB, glad to hear from you, its bin a while.

Trev

Hi BJ,

Hope that you don't mind me hijacking your thread - great pics , as always, by the way.

I was wondering about the significance of the L5 on 61306's front buffer beam; I'm sure someone out there will know.
I'm not sure whether the "HULL" is quite authentic, I would have expected an abbreviation of Botanic Gardens (nitpicking, I know).

It is still a great loco and I am glad that it is in Apple Green, makes a change from the almost ubiquitous BR black these days. I have fond memories of 61306, I was on the last train from Beverley to York which it hauled

Solario wrote:Hi BJ,

Hope that you don't mind me hijacking your thread - great pics , as always, by the way.

I was wondering about the significance of the L5 on 61306's front buffer beam; I'm sure someone out there will know.

LNER_B1_61306_IMG_3968_detail.jpg

I'm not sure whether the "HULL" is quite authentic, I would have expected an abbreviation of Botanic Gardens (nitpicking, I know).

It is still a great loco and I am glad that it is in Apple Green, makes a change from the almost ubiquitous BR black these days. I have fond memories of 61306, I was on the last train from Beverley to York which it hauled

I have just looked in one of my old loco shedbooks, it says Mayflower was at 40B Immingham/Grimsby/ New Holland, while 61306 was at 52B Heaton. That was in 1957, so suppose they could have moved around a bit.
BJ

Thank you for posting such great pics (as always) - those of us who can't escape work to get out there ourselves are very grateful for the photos you share.

I have just looked in one of my old loco shedbooks, it says Mayflower was at 40B Immingham/Grimsby/ New Holland, while 61306 was at 52B Heaton. That was in 1957, so suppose they could have moved around a bit.
BJ

BJ, you have fallen into re-naming trap. The loco originally named Mayflower was not 61306 but 61379 and according to Yeadon it was first allocated to Colwick & then Immingham. However when 61306 was bought out of preservation, the owner(s) chose to give it the Mayflower name.

61306 was delivered new (1/4/1948) to Hull Botanic Gardens shed, which supplied most of the Hull passenger locos; when that shed closed to steam it was moved to Hull Dairycoates. For the last few months of its BR working life it was moved to Bradford (Low Moor).

Solario wrote:

I have just looked in one of my old loco shedbooks, it says Mayflower was at 40B Immingham/Grimsby/ New Holland, while 61306 was at 52B Heaton. That was in 1957, so suppose they could have moved around a bit.
BJ

BJ, you have fallen into re-naming trap. The loco originally named Mayflower was not 61306 but 61379 and according to Yeadon it was first allocated to Colwick & then Immingham. However when 61306 was bought out of preservation, the owner(s) chose to give it the Mayflower name.

61306 was delivered new (1/4/1948) to Hull Botanic Gardens shed, which supplied most of the Hull passenger locos; when that shed closed to steam it was moved to Hull Dairycoates. For the last few months of its BR working life it was moved to Bradford (Low Moor).

Solario, I didn't fall into the trap I just was not specific enough, also I made a mistake with the shed code, sorry, I put 52B instead of 53B, eyes not what they used to be, like I said, the shed allocations were correct according to the shed book in 1957. So 61379 was at 40B & 61306 was at 53B, did see both of these in the fifties.

Good to see 1306 restored and back in livery. As an ex Botanic man, I have fired her many times as with the other 4 B1's at the shed.
I don't want to inject a too sour note in this thread but I cannot, in honesty, as a footplate man, give a thumbs up to the B1 as a class.
Even from new, the ride was dreadful and made worse by the noise.
Don't get me wrong, the more locos in steam from whatever region, the happier I am it's just that I would have sooner had a B16 to ride on than a B1.

Thats how they were delivered to 39B when I started 3.3.47 as a cleaner but without the 6 in front.

Run in at Gorton then to Darnall only a few weeks old