Bank Hall Locomotive Depot in 1948: two ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire engines outside the smaller through Shed: ex-L&Y 1F 0-6-0T No. 11535, fitted with dumb buffers and swinging spark-arrestor for working in the Docks; behind it is Class 30 6F 0-8-0 No. 12782. (Beyond can be glimpsed an 8F 2-8-0 with the unusual combination of 'M' as well as the BR initial '4' added to its number). Photo: 20 June 1848 by Ben Brooksbank, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Recording Locomotive Sightings 1943 - 1968
A generation of enthusiasts recorded the movements of locomotives around the railway system. These records of visits to locomotive depots have been collected and carefully analysed to provide an overall portrait for the period 1943 to 1968. During that period of steam's final years, there was a marked change from the pre-grouping types that still found work at a few depots, to the modern BR designs that worked until the end in 1968. The handling of freight and passenger services was a major undertaking from town and cities, ports, coal mines and factories. All of it traversed the labyrinth of lines that criss-crossed the country. There were numerous 'sheds' spread throughout the length and breadth of the land that provided and serviced the vast army of steam locomotives (20,000 in 1948). Here is just a taste of that history.

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Bacup 1937 - 1953


A Stanier 4MT 2-6-4T stands at Bacup having just brought a Manchester train into the station in June 1959.  Photo: Ben Brooksbank Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0.
Bacup
Post Grouping Ownership - Lancashire & Yorkshire Railwayopened:18821938-195426E
type:A stone built 4TS through road shedclosed:Oct-54
location:On the east side of the Rochdale line, south of Bacup station
AbbreviationsA - AspinallBW - Barton WrightClf - CauliflowerF - FowlerFb - Fairburn
H - HughesI - IvattJ - JohnsonSt - StanierWb - WebbWh - Whale
LMS - London, Midland & Scottish RailwayLNW - London & North Western RailwayL&Y - Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway
BR - British RailwayWR - Wirral RailwayWD - War Department
Sunday 16 May 193726E7.05pm - 7.10pmtotal:23
cl 3P 2-6-2T (St)cl 2P 2-4-2T (A)cl 4P 2-6-4T (F)cl 2F 0-6-0ST (BW)cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)cl 7F 0-8-0 (H)
7173107211082223101141011511121561243912873
72741073710858114981229312440
10766108591237912442
1080612424
Sunday 25 June 193926Etotal:18
cl 3P 2-6-2T (F)cl 3P 2-6-2T (St)cl 4P 2-6-4T (St)cl 2F 0-6-0ST (BW)cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)cl 7F 0-8-0 (F)
1426A7126E241426A1149826E1215626E964126E
1526A7226E1151126E1238726Acl 7F 0-8-0 (H)
cl 2P 2-4-2T (A)7326E1244026E1295926A
1065126E7526E1244226E
19426E
19526Eshed codes26A Newton Heath26E Bacup
Allocation December 1945 (16)cl 2P 2-4-2T (A)L&Y2cl 3P 2-4-2T (A/H)L&Y2
cl 3P 2-6-2T (St)LMS6cl 2P 4-4-0LMS1cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)L&Y5
Sunday 3 February 194626Etotal:16
cl 3P 2-6-2T (St)cl 2P 4-4-0cl 5P 2-6-0 (H/F)cl 2P 2-4-2T (A)cl 3P 2-4-2T (A/H)cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)
19026E68126E271126A1065126E108351215626E
19226E1065226E1092526E1221824D
19826E1093426E1229926E
19926E1094524D1244226E
shed codes24D Lower Darwen26A Newton Heath26E Bacup
Saturday 14 August 194826Etotal:9
cl 2P 2-4-2T (A)cl 4P 2-6-4T (St)cl 2P 4-4-0cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)
1065126E265026E58026E1229926E1244226E
1065226E1232626E1244526E
1244026E
Sunday 21 August 194926Etotal:12
cl 2P 2-4-2T (A)cl 4P 2-6-4T (St)cl 3 2-6-2T (F)cl 2P 4-4-0cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)
5065126E4262126A4001326A4058726E1227926A
5065226E264926E68226E1229926E
4265226C69126E1244026E
shed codes26A Newton Heath26E Bacup26C Bolton
Sunday 2 April 195026Etotal:10
cl 2P 2-4-2T (A)cl 4MT 2-6-4T (St)cl 2P 4-4-0cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)
5065126E4261926EM68226E1229926E
5065226E4262426A69126E1244026E
4265026E1244326E
shed codes26A Newton Heath26E Bacup
Allocation September 1950 (13)cl 2P 2-4-2T (A)L&Y2cl 4P 2-6-4T (St)LMS5
cl 2P 4-4-0LMS2cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)L&Y4
Sunday 20 July 195226Etotal:8
cl 2P 2-4-2T (A)cl 4MT 2-6-4T (St)cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)
5065626E4261926E4265026E5244026E
5082926E4264926E4265126E5244326E
Sunday 6 December 195326Etotal:10
cl 2P 2-4-2Tcl 4MT 2-6-4T (St)cl 3F 0-6-0 (A)
5064726E4248626A4262026E5213926C
5082926E4255026A4264926E5254926E
4261926E4265126E
shed codes26A Newton Heath26C Bolton26E Bacup
Bacup shed closed on 9th October, 1954

Updated and revised September 2021.

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