Doomed 'EM1's
Two of the first batch of five BR 'EM1' (later Class 76) locomotives to be withdrawn from service, 26035 and 26042 awaiting their ultimate fate at Reddish depot on 10th April 1971. Both officially taken out of service in March 1970, and believed to have been cut up on site in October 1971 by Cashmores, 26035 was assured of receiving attention from my camera's lens, for just a few months previously I had purchased one of its four builder's plates (Gorton 1042 built in 1952) from BR Collector's Corner at Euston for the princely sum of £5, and I still own it to this day. Another class member (26018/76018) was to receive the TOPS number allocation 76035, which this example would have done had it survived on the active list through the 1970s. In the line alongside is E26056, formerly named 'Triton', and withdrawn from service seven years later and the body 'grounded at the depot, and to the right, close to the depot's main road entrance gate, is blue-liveried E26030. 26035 and 26042 had been stored at Reddish since August 1968, following damage to their high tension compartments.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
Doomed 'EM1's
Two of the first batch of five BR 'EM1' (later Class 76) locomotives to be withdrawn from service, 26035 and 26042 awaiting their ultimate fate at Reddish depot on 10th April 1971. Both officially taken out of service in March 1970, and believed to have been cut up on site in October 1971 by Cashmores, 26035 was assured of receiving attention from my camera's lens, for just a few months previously I had purchased one of its four builder's plates (Gorton 1042 built in 1952) from BR Collector's Corner at Euston for the princely sum of £5, and I still own it to this day. Another class member (26018/76018) was to receive the TOPS number allocation 76035, which this example would have done had it survived on the active list through the 1970s. In the line alongside is E26056, formerly named 'Triton', and withdrawn from service seven years later and the body 'grounded at the depot, and to the right, close to the depot's main road entrance gate, is blue-liveried E26030. 26035 and 26042 had been stored at Reddish since August 1968, following damage to their high tension compartments.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission