Westerns and shedplates
- Thread starter Dog Star
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, bet the answers are not that easy... 
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oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Hi Graham.
I can help a bit. D1000 at Old Oak Common on 14th April 1964 appears not to carry a shed plate.
D1002 passing Swindon on 23 May 1965 appears to not have a shed plate.
D1011 in Swindon Works on the same date has a shed plate but I can't read it.
D1073 outside Swindon Shed on the same date has an 81A, Old Oak Common shed plate. (It's on one of the photos I've just posted in the prototypes forum. The photo shows the location on the loco body too).
All the above comes from my own photos.
Brian
I can help a bit. D1000 at Old Oak Common on 14th April 1964 appears not to carry a shed plate.
D1002 passing Swindon on 23 May 1965 appears to not have a shed plate.
D1011 in Swindon Works on the same date has a shed plate but I can't read it.
D1073 outside Swindon Shed on the same date has an 81A, Old Oak Common shed plate. (It's on one of the photos I've just posted in the prototypes forum. The photo shows the location on the loco body too).
All the above comes from my own photos.
Brian
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
Silly old bear... the original post was too ambiguous, try again.
Westerns carried (at least?) three styles of shed "plates" or "stickers":-
1/ cast metal in the "traditional" elliptical shape of the steam-era, fixed to the bufferbeam skirt (under the driver's window);
2/ the traditional steam era shape on bodyside behind driver's door (not sure if cast plate or painted);
3/ square-ish emblem with depot code on bodyside behind driver's door.
My interest lies with Westerns in the maroon era so the plates are cast (Aluminium? cast iron? brass?) and fitted to the platework below the driver's window. As to which engines carried such plates... this is what I have found from trawling the local library:-
D1001 (08/1967, MLI200)
D1006 (27/11/1965, MLI200)
D1016 (02/1970, Diesels in Depth)
D1055 (<11/1968, Diesels in Depth)
D1061 (23/08/1963, Diesels in Depth)
D1061 (19/10/1963, MLI200)
Not conclusive as to what criteria was being followed when fitting the shed plates.
regards, Graham
Westerns carried (at least?) three styles of shed "plates" or "stickers":-
1/ cast metal in the "traditional" elliptical shape of the steam-era, fixed to the bufferbeam skirt (under the driver's window);
2/ the traditional steam era shape on bodyside behind driver's door (not sure if cast plate or painted);
3/ square-ish emblem with depot code on bodyside behind driver's door.
My interest lies with Westerns in the maroon era so the plates are cast (Aluminium? cast iron? brass?) and fitted to the platework below the driver's window. As to which engines carried such plates... this is what I have found from trawling the local library:-
D1001 (08/1967, MLI200)
D1006 (27/11/1965, MLI200)
D1016 (02/1970, Diesels in Depth)
D1055 (<11/1968, Diesels in Depth)
D1061 (23/08/1963, Diesels in Depth)
D1061 (19/10/1963, MLI200)
Not conclusive as to what criteria was being followed when fitting the shed plates.
regards, Graham