Annesley Photo Gallery

Annesley Photo Gallery

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A photo gallery of engines based at Annnesley through the years, together with numerous visiting engines.

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O4/1 2-8-0 no.6202 is on the ashpits in this 1933 view. She was shedded at Annesley until September 1941, when she entered War Department service. Any further details would be most welcome.

LNER "D9" class (GCR Robinson 11B,11C,11D class) 4-4-0 no.6028 (formerly 1028)at Annesley on 30/8/36. At Annesley since (at least) 1922, she was withdrawn less than 12 months later in June 1937

The nine Annesley locomotives were mostly used for stopping trains between Sheffield, Nottingham, and Leicester. Annesley D9s were also noted operating many of the special services related to the British Empire Exhibition (1924-5), as well as various football specials.

Withdrawn in November 1943, 5471 was an LNER "B7" class 4-6-0.(formerly GCR Robinson "9Q" class no.471) Pictured at Annesley on 30th August 1936.These engines were nicknamed "Black Pigs" and "Colliers Friends" due to their voracious appetite for coal!

Pictured at Annesley on 30/8/36 is LNER "O4" 2-8-0 no.5377. She was built at Gorton in May 1913 as Robinson 8K no.377. At Nationalisation she became no.63602 and was shedded at Annesley from February to November 1956, being finally withdrawn from Retford (36E) in September 1963.

A visitor from Ardsley (56B) on 8/6/47 is "Immingham" class B4 4-6-0 no.1488 (6103 until 1946) She was withdrawn from that depot on the last day of November 1948.

Another "B7" 4-6-0 no.1390 is pictured at Annesley, this time on 25th July 1948. She was an Annesley engine from May - November 1943. Any further information would be most welcome.

Built at Doncaster plant in April 1924,"J50" 0-6-0T no.8935 is pictured on the "slip" road at Annesley MPD on 25th July 1948. At Annesley from 13/10/46 to 22/1/50,she then moved to Colwick (38A)as no.68935. In October 1952 she was transferred to Ardsley (56B) wher she remained until withdrawl in September 1963. She was cut up at Darlington Works two months later.

LNER "Q6" 0-8-0's were uncommon visitors to Annesley.This 28/7/46 shot shows 1920 built ex-NER T2 no.2261 (1946 no.3418) waiting to return to her home depot of Consett (52D). She was withdrawn from Sunderland (52G) in July 1963 and scrapped three months later at Darlington works.

Ex-GCR "Pom-Pom" Class J11 0-6-0 no.5220 stands on the shed front on no.1 road on 28/7/46. Renumbered 4361 in 1946 (subsequently 64361) Built at Gorton in 1904,she was shedded at Annesley on at least three seperate occasions: 23/1/33 t0 7/9/33; 1/7/45 to 16/11/47; and finally 13/6/48 to 7/8/55. She then moved to Stavely (38D), Colwick (38A) and finally Langwith (41J) from where she was withdrawn in March 1959.

Colwick (38A) allocated Ex-WD 2-8-0 (LNER "O7") class no.63050 (formerly 70818 & 3050) stands in a crowded Annesley shed yard on 25th July 1948. Renumbered 90050 she was withdrawn from her final depot New England (34E) in May 1963.

"Footballer" Class "B17" no.61651 "Derby County" stands on no.1 road. She was a Woodford (38E) engine till October 1951, returning to the Great Eastern section till her withdrawal from Cambridge (31A)in July 1959.

Richard Hardy, shedmaster at Woodford from 1949 - 1950 writes:

"One evening I was confronted at 5 o'clock by the point blank refusal on the part of a main line fireman to work the 5.30 pm from Woodford to Nottingham with No.61651 one of the B17's, on the grounds of excessively bad riding and because the footboard was sloping downwards whilst the flap plate sloped upwards to the tender. I did the only thing possible under the circumstances. The driver, Tommy Faulkner, had not refused the engine, and eventually I prevailed on the fireman to go if I went with him to see what could be done to improve matters. So I shared the agony by doing the firing as far as Leicester. It was no fun to work in an uncomfortable hole, with one's right foot on the wildly lurching flap plate, axleboxes knocking, cabside vibrating, cab doors flying open and reversing gear kicking - a brute of a machine"

Another "Footballer" (B17 4-6-0)no.1664 "Liverpool" stands behind "WD" 63050 on 25/7/48.A Woodford (38E) engine at the time, she returned to Great Eastern metals in June 1951, being withdrawn from March (31B) in April 1959.

"O4/1" no.63723 is pictured at Annesley on 15th October 1950.She was transferred to Colwick (38A) a week later.She stayed at Colwick for six years before being moving to Mexborough (41F) from wher she was withdrawn in November 1059.

Another "WD" 2-8-0 no.90130, is pictured on no.9 road. Her Mexborough crew will be having their "snap" before returning home. She was finally withdrawn from Colwick (40E) in October 1965.

The "Geordie" "B16" 4-6-0's

Ask any Annesley fireman which engines he hated disposing of, and the answer would be "a Geordie". Almost without exception, Mexborough crews would leave them on the ashpits with clinkered fires nearly level with the firehole door. Also the smokebox would be opened to reveal red-hot ash well above the cross-bar! No rocker bars or drop grate one these engines - the poor fireman had to manipulate a 10ft long clinker shovel through a "fish & chip shop" firehole door, so called because of the anti-glare screens fitted on both sides and above the door.

Annesley 22/5/59

Here we have an original ex-NER "B16/1" as designed by Raven in 1920. It has right hand drive, a steam reverser and Stephenson valve gear.No.61436 has been turned, and is now backing down to the loco' to await her return to her home depot of York (50A) She was an early withdrawl in September 1961

Sunday 11/11/62 sees "B16/2" 4-6-0 no.61437 stabled in front of the drinking water tank. She was brought on shed the previous day at 15.25 by driver Fred Simpkins, and disposed by Driver Ken Sylvester and his unlucky fireman! This engine was a 1937 Gresley rebuild, with Walschaerts valve gear and derived motion for inside cylinder. Now with screw reverse but still r/h drive. She was withdrawn from Hull (Dairycoates)(50B) in July 1964

The final variant of the "B16" 4-6-0 was the 1944 Thompson rebuild with left hand drive and individual sets of Walschaerts valve gear for each cylinder. (still a b*****d to dispose of, though!)Here we have "B16/3" no.61464 awaiting preparation and her next turn on no.8 road. Pictured on 30/11/56, she was to last nearly seven more years, being withdrawn from Mirfield (56D) in September 1963.

24th May 1959 sees a Woodford (2F) "K3" 2-6-0 No.61853 waiting to return home.Two weeks later she was transferred to Ardsley (56B) from where She was withdrawn when the "K3's" were made extinct in December 1962. Annesley always had an allocation of this versatile (but rough!) class until May 1959, the last three being 61856, 61975 and 61980.Their replacements were..........

.....The "Crab" 2-6-0's. Here we have Annesley example No.42769 ready for work in April 1959.A Nottingham (16A) engine since April 1952, She (and her sisters 42784, 42847, 42872 and 42897)only lasted at Annesley till June 1960. They in turn were replaced by "Black Fives". 42769 then went to Burton (17B), Nottingham (16A) and finally Gorton (9G) where she was withdrawn in January 1964.

Photo courtesy of Tony Parker (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

Stranger in camp! "Q6" 0-8-0 no.63349.

A type of loco I never saw at Annesley was the ex-N.E.Raven "Q6" 0-8-0. August 29th 1959 sees Thornaby (51L) allocated no.63349 over on no.7 road. June 1963 saw her move to West Hartlepool (51C) from where she was withdrawn in June 1965.