BRITISH RAILWAYS 48773

British Railways Stanier 8F 2-8-0 locomotive number 48773 of Bolton Motive Power Depot passes by Droylsden Station Junction signal box on the Up Branch line running thirty nine minutes late with the Manchester Rail Travel Society / Severn Valley Railway Society’s additional 08:45 Birmingham New Street, Wolverhampton, Crewe, Stockport, Buxton, Chinley, Stalybridge, Huddersfield, Sowerby Bridge, Blackburn, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Droylsden, Stockport, Warrington, Ditton, Liverpool, Crewe, Wolverhampton and Birmingham New Street ‘North West Tour’ rail tour (1Z77) which it worked between Bolton (where it replaced British Railways Riddles ‘Standard’ 5MT 4-6-0 locomotive number 73134 of Patricroft Motive Power Depot piloting British Railways Riddles ‘Standard’ 5MT 4-6-0 locomotive number 73069 of Patricroft Motive Power Depot) and Stockport where it was replaced by British Railways Riddles ‘Standard’ 9F 2-10-0 locomotive number 92160 of Speke Junction Motive Power Depot. 17:37, Saturday 20th April 1968

(1/125, F2.8)

 

Note, 48773 was built by the North British Locomotive Company Limited (works number 24607) at Hyde Park works in Glasgow in August 1940 to a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company design for the Ministry of Supply as War Department number 307. It was loaned to the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company as number 8233 until July 1941 when it was loaned to the Iranian State Railway as number 41.109. It was returned to the War Department in 1946 as number 70307, being renumbered 500 in 1952. It was purchased by British Railways in 1957 as number 48773 although it was initially painted as number 90733 in error. It was withdrawn from Polmadie Motive Power Depot in December 1962 but was reinstated to traffic in February 1963, was withdrawn again from Polmadie Motive Power Depot in June 1963 and moved to Horwich works for scrapping but was reinstated to Kingmoor Motive Power Depot in week ending 9th November 1963

 

Ref no BI/00212

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