Description : Stewart writes:
"This is the shed at Haworth on the Keighley and Worth Valley
Railway in Yorkshire. The station is just behind the shed. I
will struggle to identify all the loco's but here goes: BR
Standard Class 2-6-4T 80002 is in the shed (that was easy),
fifth from the left is an LMS Stanier class Black 5, next to it
on the right may well be 41241 that you have a number of photos
of, in the middle are two 0-6-0 diesel shunters (some examples
of which made their way to Australia - the Goldfields Railway
have one,) the remaining diesels will remain anonymous unless
someone can enlighten us...."
Then James Ross wrote to say:
Re: diesels in 'Haworth 1': Locos left to right are BR Bo-Bo
class 25 diesel (in blue), a 400 hp BR class 08 shunter D3336 of
1957 with stripey front, a 500 hp BR shunter of 1956 with a
black cab ('switcher' for you I think), a green 0-6-0 BR 204 hp
DM shunter of 1961 behind, a green BR class 108 railcar in the
shed with destination board, LMS 2-8-0 class 8F no 48431, BR
Standard class 2 2-6-0 no. 78022, a German-built 4-wheel railbus
of 1958 (either 79962 or 79964) behind, and another unidentified
shunter on the extreme right.
Thanks, James! (But we do call them shunters as well.) Prompted by that, Dave Harrison wrote to say:
Re: The last picture in that section of Haworth yard,
the diesel on the far right is D0226 (some say D226) "Vulcan" an
English Electric prototype. Two locomotives were built; one
diesel hydraulic (scrapped) and one diesel electric (in the
photo). The last I heard about Vulcan was it was being repaired
but back in service soon (re-painted into English Electric Blue
livery which should look rather nice).
Subsequently, Trevor Reeve (a driver from KWVR, so he should know) said:
I was having a bit of a surf when I came across your
site and in particular your photo of Haworth yard from 1999. As
a Worth Valley driver I felt constrained to have my four
penn'oth, but the only thing I would say to disagree with your
correspondent James Ross is that the loco on the left is not our
own class 25 but Someone Else's class 31. The presence of an
extra 'Billy Bunter', other than 3336, in the yard as well as
the class 31 leads me to suspect that the picture was taken
around the time of the Diesel Weekend of that year. The class 2
loco on the right is definitely 78022 as the Ivatt tank was
still in bits at that time and anyway you can see the tender
cab. Since the picture, D0226 has indeed been overhauled and
painted in the blue livery mentioned.
And Andrew Simkins wants to join in as well:
I, like Driver Reeve, was just having a surf when I came
across his name and a link to your site. I, unlike Trevor, am a
Fireman on the Worth Valley, and have spent a few happy hours
firing for Trevor over the years. You may care to know that his
jokes are rather like the curate's egg, good in parts!
I have a little more information on the photograph if
you are interested. Firstly the Stanier engine is actually our
own 8F 48431. It has the 4F tender behind from our own
4F. 43924. The striped Billy Bunter came up to Worth rail for as
Trevor said, a diesel gala day and was during its visit
re-painted by John Dickinson. It ran an evening beer train
double headed with our own 350 shunter.
D0226 has now been re-painted in Deltic blue, and looks
very smart but is difficult to keep clean.
If this correspondence keeps up, I think I might just have to start a newsgroup for Haworth-1!
