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37682 and another member of the class head a cement train through the station in 1993.
The residents along the Cumbrian coast surely deserve better than this. 142043 waits with a service to Whitehaven in 1993.
Locos were stabled in the station between duties. Here is 86227 ‘Sir Henry Johnson’ in 1993.
08768 is station pilot on this day in 1993. 90017 is stabled in the background.
More stabled locomotives. On this day in 1991 they were 86425, 47558 and 47471.
27030 was photographed in the 1980s, but the date is unknown.
Not a great deal changed even in the 1960s, apart from the motive power. Here is Britannia 70028 ‘Royal Star’ in 1966.
The notes say that this photo was taken at Canal shed on August 27th 1950. I cannot vouch for this as I never visited Canal (or for that matter Upperby). The image shows D31 4-4-0 62281, which was a Canal engine at that time. Withdrawal came just two years later.
On the same sunny day in August 1950 at Canal, we see C15 4-4-2T 67481. A ‘6’ has been added but the final LNER livery remains. Another 6 years of working from the shed was in prospect until withdrawal came in February 1956.
And also on the same day, 27th August 1950, we see Patriot class 45525 ‘Colwyn Bay’ at Upperby shed. This was an Upperby engine at the time of the photo, but was soon to move south to Crewe North and then Camden. Withdrawn from Llandudno Junction in 1961.
A large amount of steel passed through Carlisle, mainly with pairs of 37s in charge. Here are 37042 and 37099 in 1993.
I wonder how many modellers would be brave enough to number one of their 47s in ‘Dutch’ livery as seen on 47343 here in 1993? And what kind of comments they might get, if they did? There may be a prototype for everything, if you search hard enough.
Pressed into mainline passenger service, likely due to an earlier locomotive failure, Railfreight’s 90046 is seen in 1990.
In later years, class 60s took over some of the steel workings from pairs of 37s. Here 60059 ‘Samuel Plimsoll’ passes through the station.
The Clans were regulars at Carlisle, and here is 72002 ‘Clan Campbell’ on a southbound passenger service in the early 1960s.
46200 ‘The Princess Royal’ is seen after withdrawal in Upperby shed yard on June 6th 1964. Rods removed, she presents rather a sorry sight in faded red livery.
This is an instamatic photo from August 1973. Brush 4 1783 from Knottingley depot has charge of service 1E31 which would suggest it is about to head over the S&C towards Leeds.
Coming much more up to date, although over a decade ago now; 185117 awaits departure with a service to Manchester Airport on May 25th 2011.
A less than perfect photo of 60041 ‘Salmon Trout’ at Kingmoor depot in October 1964. One of only a couple (I believe) of Gresley A3s to gain the diagonal yellow cab side stripe applied to steam locomotives which were not allowed under the 25kv wires due to height considerations. Although, looking at the tender, the coal would have probably been well alight after a couple of miles’ contact with 25000 volts.
At Kingmoor depot in September 1973, class 24 5017 is seen sandwiched between class 40 340, and class 27 5390.
Upperby in July 1966, and Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 46455 still has another year to go before the grim reaper descends. Although, even then, 17 years of life for a steam locomotive is really only an infancy. Initially delivered to Crewe North for a couple of months, 46455 spent all of those years in Cumbria; at Penrith, Workington and Carlisle sheds.
Stored in Kingmoor yard during 1976, 24090 looks rather resigned to fate. Still in green livery and rather weathered by the elements, the loco was eventually towed to Doncaster and cut up at the works late in 1977.
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