The LNER Encyclopedia

I am currently compiling a loco list from info in Ian Allen books and have done a few shed oready.
Annersley
Nottingham
Rugby
York
Leeds (both sheds)
Leicester Midland and central
Doncaster
Retford
Rugby Test Centre
Anyone have a suggestion for the next I am focusing the early attention to ECML and GCR sheds as well as the Midland Mainline.
Started as an offshoot from my Annersley 16D project

Tom,

The Locoshed Index gives the running numbers of all the locos allocated to BR MPDs for several different years during the 50s. Seehttp://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~luigi ... coshed.htm, but I think you know that already.

Presumably you are adding the loco classifications as well to make your list more user friendly. After all not everybody knows the numbering system for each class by heart.

Colombo

Hev you seen

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~luigin/index.htm

Luigin has completed a full loco shed database for 1948, 1952, 1955, 1959 and 1960 listed by shed codes.

Regards

Paul

Yes Ive seen thats where I got the idea
The Feild headers are
Class
Number
Name (if it had one)
Shed Code
Shed Name
Iam currently doing 40E Colwick
Others getting towards the top of the list are
11A Barrow (my home town)
12A Carlisle Kingmoor
12B Carlisle Upperby
12C Carlisle Canel
1A Wilsdon (not looking forward for the good hour work on it)
1B Camdon
65A Eastfeild and all sub sheds on the West Highland and Fort William
Edingbough 64A B and C
King Cross top shed will be done in time
5A is the one Iam dreading the allocation is rather large at least one is easy 71000 lol.

I am only doing steam locos for now to save the tedium of all those shunters.
If anyone has a she they want doing Ill give it a go. lol not 5A or 1A yet please hehe.

Found some interesting things while doing the database. For example westinghouse standard 5 73031 was allocated to Rugby test centre lol its an excuse to run it onto annersley as if it has worked a test run and a fault has developed. It seams that most of the Pacifics allocated to the ECML sheds closest to Annersley have convieniant names like Sir Vincent Raven and Great Central. Another interesting one was that there was still a D49 at York which I didn't know and gives me an excuse agian for a 4 or 5 coach stopper with a D49 on the front.

could you do East dereham (norfolk) for me? it would be a great help for a future project of TrackworkTS

Yes whats the shed code. Connot find it in my book. Ill have another go when I have finished Upperby (12B) and Canal (12C). Hopefully it is not as big as Crewe lol

Dereham shed may have been a sub shed of Norwich.

On the HMRS web site, there is a photograph entitled: "2-4-0 BR E4 62796 and 62787 in Dereham shed yard"

Colombo

Dereham along with a number of other small sheds in Norfolk came under Norwich District. In late 1948/early 1949 the LNE Region of British railways adopted the former LMSR number code system and Norwich became 32A. The other two former GE Districts became 30A Stratford and Cambridge 31A.

Dereham, since GER days came under Norwich. In LNER days the locos home shed name would have been painted on the buffer beam of the loco's - however I've never seen a photo with "DEREHAM" painted on a loco buffer beam.

Regards

Paul

ok, well does anyone have an idea what sort of locos were based at dereham/norwich around the 50's/60's?

According to "GER Engine sheds" by Chris Hawkins:

".............by 1954 Norwich was supplying four D-16 4-4-0's, an E-4 2-4-0, a J-15 and two J-17 0-6-0s."

"Dereham shed closed to steam from 19 September 1955 with the introduction of DMU's."

Also:
"Branch & Byways East Anglia" by John Brodribb includes a photo of the 6.5pm Dereham to Norwich service being hauled by E-4 2-4-0 62789 and in August 1955 Class D-16/3 4-4-0 62610 on a train for Dereham.

The book "The Well-Next-the-Sea Branch" by Stanley Jenkins has a reasonable selection of photos of the branch. If you wanted to model LNER days you could also include NER J-21 300, which worked the line! (i.e. the same class as now under restoration on the NNR at Sheringham).

Hope the above is of some help.

Regards

Paul

thats helpful, thank you Paul, i'll note that down for one of the future packs