Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

[Arun Sharma]

Here’s another seen previously, in post #2302. It’s Class O1 2-8-0 63590 on Cambridge Shed on 7th June 1959. Allocated to March in March 1957 it moved to Staveley in November 1959. It was finally at Langwith Junction from June 1965 and was withdrawn within the month. (SLS). In July and August 1965 it was seen in store at Langwith Junction. It arrived at Dairycoates Sidings at Hull on 20th September 1965 and was cut up at Draper's in Hull on 4th October. (I have cobbled this data together from WHTS as there are some conflicting sightings). BR Database advises that it was sold for scrap to A Draper, Hull in August 1965 and cut up in the following October.

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Brian

Egan & Scotney's book "BR Locos Cut Up by Drapers of Hull" ISBN 0 907033 83 0 gives the cutting up date for 63590 as 04 Oct 65.
In the rabbit hole of Stonebridge Park trolleybuses, post-April 1959, most were transferred ex-Bow Depot N1 and N2 classes. These being classes introduced at the beginning of WW2 and were thus some of the youngest trolleybuses in London. Prior to their transfer in April '59, these Bow vehicles were always known as the cleanest buses in London [and they used to run past my bedroom window!]
That happy state of affairs didn't survive transfer though - Their final days at Stonebridge Park in Dec '61 to Jan '62 spent being covered in snow and slush in a foretaste of what to happen to London a year later on Boxing Day 1962.