WSM in the 1960s

[madhattie]

This was plugged on Yahoo. Some great images.

WSM in the 60s.

[tugboatcharly2]

thank you for the photos down at weston and uphill jct brought back very many good memories they were happy days as far as railway work went .

[DAVE]

Nice to see the old photos.
6900 Abney Hall shown in one photo ended its life at Barrow road shed in October 1964 and was scrapped in Bridgend shortly afterwards.
Probabably the most interesting subject shown is the class 14 diesel hydraulic D9505. these engines built at Swindon in 64/65[total in class 56]were built to replace the ex GWR tank engines, but only lasted until the end of 1969. They were deemed surplus to requirements by BR, another victim of the anti diesel hydraulic brigade in BR management.
All were sold into private ownership mainly British steel and the National coal board.
The loco shown D9505 was sold into private ownership in 1969 and was then sold to an owner in Belgium in 1975 where it worked until 2003 when it was finally scrapped.
The above and the detail on the photos date the photo's as approx 1964.

Dave Nailsea

[simon]

Probabably the most interesting subject shown is the class 14 diesel hydraulic D9505. these engines built at Swindon in 64/65[total in class 56]were built to replace the ex GWR tank engines, but only lasted until the end of 1969. They were deemed surplus to requirements by BR, another victim of the anti diesel hydraulic brigade in BR management.
All were sold into private ownership mainly British steel and the National coal board.

Actually, they were sold out of service as the trains they were designed to haul disappeared - rather than the purge of Diesel Hydraulics.

A number of them were left at Bath Road for a while with no services to pull û before the sale to private industry.

A fair few have survived into preservation - there was a gathering of 5 of them at the NVR diesel gala last autumn.

A few pictures of them here:


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