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robertcwp wrote:
Trains between the LNER and SR usually changed locos at Oxford I believe, and avoided GWR haulage, which avoided any complications with differing vacuums in the brakes.
Excellent, thanks for the response, so looks like I can have several LNER hauled trains, the LNER and SR workings and the workings to Swindon (if I take it as being the year for LNER motive power on these).
The Director is tempting too. A distraction into pre-grouping time is getting tempting as a change.
It shouldn't be overlooked that LNE engines could have appeared at Oxford having come from Cambridge via the former LNW line through Bedford, Bletchley and Bicester.
From conversations I've had with Swindon men, LNER locomotives regularly came to Swindon. These engines seemed to have originated on newspaper trains from Leicester (GCR). Some of these men even had a liking for the V2 but in these parts, they only whisper their praise.
Many Swindon men took a liking to the V2s, remember they were tested at Swindon in BR days and one even sported a copper cap chimney for a while. The Southern men were also suprised at what they could do when their own pacifics were temporarily withdrawn for mods.
Hi interested in the area served by 52D. also researching colliery wagonways from same area.
Neasden 34e use to work the milk train from Marylebone to Banbury. We normaly used B1s but in 1954 I did the trip with an L1, 67772 I believe.
Enterprise
Once handed a V2 over to G.W. men at Leicester, their loco had broken down.
Fireman brought his shovel with him, no use with a V2 firedoor, big wide bladed thing
Told him how to keep back corners full and various other bits new to him and at my 23 years old telling a wessy fireman at least 40 y.o. how to do was a revalation.
Eightpot wrote:It shouldn't be overlooked that LNE engines could have appeared at Oxford having come from Cambridge via the former LNW line through Bedford, Bletchley and Bicester.
Very rarely in LNER days, I think, but I do recall the late Fred Bateman of Bletchley telling me he fired a B12 on a hospital train over the line during the war. B1s and Clauds certainly appeared on workings from Cambridge via Bletchley in BR days as did K3s and,on at least one occasion, the sole Thompson K5
The old B17 was tender drive, the B12 was loco drive, put the two together and you would have an unpowered loco and tender, but I found out recently that a tender drive unit from a 'Patriot' TD loco can be modified to fit in a modified B12 tender, a 'Patriot' TD unit has now arrived in Australia, going to give it a try in the near future.
