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The sad hulk of Avonside 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Askham Hall' (Works No.1772 built in 1917) at Threlkeld Quarry, remarkably still bearing its maker's and Railway Executive identity plates for permitted working over BR metals. It is not widely known that this diminutive saddle tank flouted the BR steam ban in June 1971, when its owner, the National Coal Board, wished to transfer it from Solway Colliery at Workington to William Loco Shed at Whitehaven. It was provided with a brake van by BR at Workington and simply worked the eight miles around the Solway coast, without any diesel pilot locomotive, but presumably with a BR pilot man on the footplate. Its Railway Executive registration plate, which it still bears, was clearly convincing enough for the local railway management!
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
Where to Next?
The sad hulk of Avonside 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Askham Hall' (Works No.1772 built in 1917) at Threlkeld Quarry, remarkably still bearing its maker's and Railway Executive identity plates for permitted working over BR metals. It is not widely known that this diminutive saddle tank flouted the BR steam ban in June 1971, when its owner, the National Coal Board, wished to transfer it from Solway Colliery at Workington to William Loco Shed at Whitehaven. It was provided with a brake van by BR at Workington and simply worked the eight miles around the Solway coast, without any diesel pilot locomotive, but presumably with a BR pilot man on the footplate. Its Railway Executive registration plate, which it still bears, was clearly convincing enough for the local railway management!
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission