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| Hall Nº5956 Horsley Hall in platform 6
at East Croydon on 14th August 1954, having left Reading at the head of the
7:35 a.m. Birkenhead to Margate. Diverted to travel via Kensington and Clapham
Junction, the locomotive reached Redhill where it was removed and retired to
the shed for servicing. The Railway Observer for September 1954 reported the
event as follows: 'As the heat of the emergency faded, doubts evidently
began to arise as to the propriety of allowing this out-of-gauge machine to use
Central Section metals. Horsley Hall was then impounded in Redhill loco
yard while enquires were made of the Civil Engineer as to means of returning it
to its homeland, and on 19th August it was still in detention with apparently
no immediate prospect of release, although a story in the News Chronicle the
following day intimated that Nº5956 could return home if it did not exceed
15mph'.
text from Peter Kellett |
photograph: Mike Morant collection |
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Ex-GWR Nº5922 Caxton Hall seen at Bournemouth MPD
circa 1961/2. We do not presently know what this locomotive was doing at
Bournemouth other than that she obviously arrived with an inter-regional
working, of which there were three a day in the early 1960s, one from York via
Banbury, one from Oxford and one from Bristol to Weymouth, with the loco going
on to Bournemouth for servicing. However, as 5922 was a Swindon loco during
1961/2 it would seem likely that she arrived with one of the first two
mentioned.
photograph by Michael Blackbourn. |
Manor
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Nº7813 Freshford Manor arriving at at a rather wet
Dorking Town (now Dorking West) station with west-bound inter-regional service.
photograph by Keith Harwood. |
| Nº7829 Ramsbury Manor approaching the staggered
platforms at Gomshall and Shere on 28th December 1964 during the last week of
steam haulage on the Redhill - Reading line. A Manor was regularly rostered for
one of the morning trains from Redhill to Reading. Note the similarity in track
layout in this and the above photograph of Dorking Town.
photograph by Keith Harwood. |
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