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North East England in the steam era. Here I have depicted 1926 and am representing the LNER NE Area carriage set roster number 19. This started at Ferryhill at 7:34 a.m. and finished at York at 9:42 p.m. In the intervening period the set would travel all the way north to Edinburgh and then back south, all the way to York. On a Monday this set had travelled south from Heaton on the preceding Saturday evening and stabled at Ferryhill until Monday. This followed a six day period without any duties. That was probably a maintenance period, from the Sunday at 10:15 p.m. through to Saturday at 7:02 p.m. This gap in duty appears to have occurred once every nineteen weeks for the twenty sets described by the LNER carriage roster as "the main line sets". On a Monday this long distance rostered duty would have been in the hands of a newly maintained set.
The consist was book-ended at each end by a 3-compartment 52ft bogie Van 3rd. In between was a 52ft bogie Lavatory Composite and two 52ft bogie Thirds. In 1926 these were coded as 2 XBT(3), XCL(4-3) and 2 XT. It provided 29 1st Class and 244 3rd Class seats. It can be difficult to determine where corridor connected coaches were deployed, but the "main line sets" number 1 to 20 were rostered to routinely work to branch line destinations such as Richmond, Bishop Auckland, Consett, Blackhill and South Shields, so I believe that they were most likely to be non-corridor coaches. In 1926 there were elliptical roof coaches on the roster but I am depicting a set of clerestory roof coaches of 1900 vintage hanging on to a duty.
In the first screenshot one of TW Worsdell's Class G5 0-4-4Ts, Number 1882 of Ferryhill shed, waits to depart on the 7:35 a.m. to Newcastle via Leamside and Washington. It arrives Newcastle at 8:43 a.m. and will change engine during a thirty minute layover at Central station. While there it will also gain another Lavatory Composite, which the roster coded as WCL, meaning it could be any bogie coach, of 45ft, 49ft or 52ft length, as available. The set would depart for Edinburgh at 9:15 a.m.
In the second screenshot I am depicting the set heading north at Chevington with the 9:15 a.m. departure from Newcastle. It is in the hands of a Worsdell Class D20 4-4-0, Gateshead shed Number 1147. At the head of the train is the attached 52ft Diagram 88 Lavatory Composite, which is not in the best of condition. The train stopped at Morpeth and its next stop is Alnmouth. After a further stop at Belford it will reach Berwick on Tweed at 11:06. After a seven minute layover, where it might have changed to an ex-NBR engine, it would stop at Reston and Dunbar, arriving Edinburgh at 12:43 p.m.
Hi Robd, the loco and coaches are from Paul.