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by Boris » Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:28 pm
Just read this. Yes Darnall did have B1s on The Cutler.When it was first run under that name it was a Darnall mileage turn, out on the Master Cutler and back in Sheffield by about 3.15pm
The return working was also a B1 which was also a milage turn getting back in Sheff. about 10 ish.
The B1s were delivered in L.N.E.R green and numbered in the 1100 series the first we got.
I did work it once,not being in the link ,when a fireman failed, it was bloody hard work, especially as I was only a novice at the time.
The rota was Cutler one day then Sheff Vic. station pilot the next and so on for both the outward working and inward working crews so in fact it took 4 crews to work it for the week.
Some of the numbers at Darnall that period:-1109, 1110, 1111, 1122, 1123, 1139, 1140, 1141, 1142, 1143, 1144, 1150, 1151, 1152, 1153, 1154, 1156, 1158, 1169, 1179, 1181, 1183, plus one or two more but then the got an "E" and later a "6" added but we never used these for any loco always just the L.N.E.R.No., and I never ever heard the name Bongo used for the class it was always a B1.
We later got more and the last I remeber was 61313 which I fired to Leicester on the South Yorkshireman and Back on a Bournmouth -York, Got a pic at Leicester with driver Percy Goodchild ,but the chimneys cut off.
Hope this helps a bit.
EX DARNALL 39B FIREMAN 1947-55