Hi Heather
@Heather Kay - I'd not noticed the person trying to hide from the camera although that brake van was in the same position at Old Oak for as many years as I can remember. In fact I remember it before it had the tarp draped over it. I always meant to take a photo... As for the "rail bender" are you commenting on this?
I put it down to another piece of shed detritus and not worthy of comment, but now you draw attention to it... Graham
@Dog Star has tried to be helpful by explaining it as a "Jim Crow" but I don't know what that is either. Somewhere in the memory is a reference to a "Jim Crow" as a means of unofficially adjusting the exhaust in the firebox but I may be and most likely am incorrect. Hopefully explanations will follow and we'll have another exciting rabbit hole to investigate.
Thanks again, Adam
@AJC for your comments about the rolling stock, followed by Dave
@Dave F, and Rob
@Rob R with additional info by Martin
@Martin Shaw .
And so pleased to be back, Dave
@Genghis !
Inside Old Oak Common Shed in April 1963 with four locos we’ve seen previously. Modified Hall 6990 Witherslack Hall (#2243, #3641 and #5002), 2884 2-8-0 3860 (#4995) , Castle 5056 Earl of Powis (#4996) and 7018 Drysllwyn Castle (#1218 and #2208).
Modified Hall 6990 Witherslack Hall was allocated to Old Oak Common in December 1951 and didn't move to St Philips Marsh until November 1963. In June 1964 it went to Bristol Barrow Road where it was withdrawn in December 1965. (SLS). It is currently working on the GCR at Loughborough where it arrived by way of Woodhams, Barry. See:
6990 Witherslack Hall
3860 was an Aberdare loco from September 1962, then Neath Court Sart in May 1964 before withdrawal in the following August. (SLS). It was scrapped at Cashmore’s, Newport in November 1964. (BR Database).
The Castle 5056 Earl of Powis was allocated to Old Oak on 4th November 1950 (BR Database), Cardiff East Dock in July1963, Hereford in April 1964 and Oxley in June the same year where it was withdrawn in the following November. (SLS). It then moved to Cashmore’s, Great Bridge, where it was scrapped in February 1965. (BR Database).
7018 Drysllwyn Castle. The Drysllwyn Castle name persists at Didcot but not on 7018 which was allocated to Old Oak Common at the time of the photo and withdrawn from there in September 1963. (SLS). It went to Cashmore's Great Bridge where it was scrapped in June 1964. (BR Database).
Black 5 44771 was seen previously in post #3835 but here it’s on the down Northern Irishman from Euston to Stranraer at Willesden Junction in April 1962. It was allocated to Rugby in July 1959, Nuneaton in June 1965, Holyhead a year later and Chester at the end of the same year. It was withdrawn in March 1967. (SLS). It was scrapped at Cohen's, Morriston, in October 1967. (BR Database).
Princess Coronation 46225 Duchess of Gloucester, previously in post #3789 on a down Inverness Sleeper at at Willesden Junction on 13th April 1962. 46225 had been on Carlisle Upperby’s allocation from July 1959 until withdrawn in September 1964. (SLS). It was scrapped at Arnott Young, Troon in December the same year. (BR Database).
Brian
