WORKSPLATE
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:14 pm
WHAT LOCO WAS WORKSPLATE NO 2005 BUIILT DARLINGTON 1947 FROM PLEASE
Richard
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:07 pm
Sounds like an LNER loco, so I've moved it here
Richard
Richard
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:14 pm
With the books that I have, Works Numbers are hard to look up unless I know which class it might be.
There weren't a huge variety of types being built in 1947, so I guessed at a Thompson B1 - and I was right!
Works No. 2005, Built at Darlington, Date: April 1947.
LNER No. 1025 "Pallah". [the first B1s were named after antelopes - hence they were often known as "Antelope Class" or "Bongoes" - a type of antelope]
Renumbered Dec. 1948 as BR No. 61025.
Withdrawn from service: December 1962.
Built as a part of the second LNER batch (ordered in 1944). BR also built quite a few.
If you have the plate, I think it might have a higher value than the average works plate - it is from a popular type of locomotive. There are many people alive who fondly remember them, and two engines survive into preservation.
Alas, the nameplate would be worth a lot more!
Richard
There weren't a huge variety of types being built in 1947, so I guessed at a Thompson B1 - and I was right!
Works No. 2005, Built at Darlington, Date: April 1947.
LNER No. 1025 "Pallah". [the first B1s were named after antelopes - hence they were often known as "Antelope Class" or "Bongoes" - a type of antelope]
Renumbered Dec. 1948 as BR No. 61025.
Withdrawn from service: December 1962.
Built as a part of the second LNER batch (ordered in 1944). BR also built quite a few.
If you have the plate, I think it might have a higher value than the average works plate - it is from a popular type of locomotive. There are many people alive who fondly remember them, and two engines survive into preservation.
Alas, the nameplate would be worth a lot more!
Richard
Darlington 2005
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:40 pm
B1 61025 Pallah
TonyC
TonyC
worksplate
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:40 am
Do you have the worksplate No. 2005 or have you seen it?