KotangaGirl
Pre-Grouping Railways Nut
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According to the Loco shed book as at April 1957 83G Penzance had the following small Prairie tanks allocated. 4505,4545,4547/8,4563,4566,4570. 83F Truro had 4508,4554,4561,4574,4587/8,
Re post #3604 KotangaGirl
Well done with the IM Editor Annie, it's good to see old locos being given a new lease of life (I'ts a pity the loco lamps are a permanate fixture on GP locos).
I'm really liking your Cornish Route Annie! Question though - if the 5100 tanks didn't work the locals in Truro then what class of engine did? i'm going through my GWR books and I can't seem to find it.
There were quite a few (usually about 12) 4500/4575 prairies based at Truro. Branch line speeds were relatively low so they didn't need anything with bigger wheels so the small priaires were the default motive power for just about every GWR branch in the south west and Wales where the traffic was too heavy for autotanks. That said, Cornwall didn't seem to use the 0-4-2s anywhere.
Oddly the Minehead branch, whihc was much longer and had higher line speeds tan many branches saw panniers used quite extensively alongside both small and large prairies, so a lot of it may have been down to local preference.
83G Penzance shed also had sun sheds under its jurisdiction at Helston & St Ives so iunlikely all the allocation of 45xx tanks at Penznce at the same time.
It's that large Prairie and that train of vans again.
That train of vans appears to include a number of my reskins Annie, so I'm delighted to see it again (and again!)
Paul
According to the BR Database:
No. 1419 was a St Blazey loco between December 1949 and April 1961
No. 1468 at St Blazey from December 1960 to August 1961.
No. 1421 was a Laira loco between June 1958 and July 1960 - on loan to St Blazey for the summer of 1958?
Other Laira 14XX were:
No. 1408 from May 1955 to March 1958.
No. 1434 from May 1955 to July 1962.
With 1421 being caught at Lostwithiel in August 1958 while officially a Laira engine I have to consider that Laira 14XX were at least occasionally sent to work in Cornwall while remaining on Laira's books.
I am now curious about Steam Days referring to the Lostwithiel - Fowey autotrains as ultimately being the last branch in Cornwall to have them, since I have so far only identified five 14XX at least as far west as Laira and three of them were at Laira.