BRITISH RAILWAYS 60055 WOOLWINDER
British Railways Gresley 7P6F 4-6-2 ‘A3’ class locomotive number 60055 WOOLWINDER of Doncaster Motive Power Depot passes beneath the North London viaduct on the Down Main line between Belle Isle Up and Copenhagen Junction signal boxes with a northbound express passenger train
Note, 60055 was built at the London & North Eastern Railway Company’s Doncaster works (works number 1610) in December 1924 as number 2554 WOOLWINDER. It was rebuilt from an A1 class to an A3 class locomotive in June 1942 and was allocated the number 523 in the London & North Eastern Railway Company’s 1943 renumbering scheme (not implemented until 1946) but was renumbered 55 in 1946. It was transferred to British Railways upon nationalisation of the railways on 1st January 1948, being renumbered 60055 in week ending 5th June 1948
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BRITISH RAILWAYS 60055 WOOLWINDER
British Railways Gresley 7P6F 4-6-2 ‘A3’ class locomotive number 60055 WOOLWINDER of Doncaster Motive Power Depot passes beneath the North London viaduct on the Down Main line between Belle Isle Up and Copenhagen Junction signal boxes with a northbound express passenger train
Note, 60055 was built at the London & North Eastern Railway Company’s Doncaster works (works number 1610) in December 1924 as number 2554 WOOLWINDER. It was rebuilt from an A1 class to an A3 class locomotive in June 1942 and was allocated the number 523 in the London & North Eastern Railway Company’s 1943 renumbering scheme (not implemented until 1946) but was renumbered 55 in 1946. It was transferred to British Railways upon nationalisation of the railways on 1st January 1948, being renumbered 60055 in week ending 5th June 1948
Ref no Railway00182