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70000 Britannia is seen hauling the return working English Riviera Express, 1Z61 16:35 Kingswear to High Wycombe. 70000 coasts down grade at Saltern Cove on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway before working its way onto the mainline at Paignton.
British Railways Class 7 70013 "Oliver Cromwell " working 1z54 1007 Liverpool Lime Street-Holyhead,passing Collins Green between St Helens and Earlstown 21/08/2011
BR Standard class7 70000 powers the return leg of the Cumbrian Mountain Express past Ais gill. The locomotive pulled the funeral train of King George VI from Norfolk to London following his death in February 1952. For this task, Britannia had her cab roof painted white, as was the custom with royal locomotives and also wears the white roof on this tour.
British Railways Britannia class 70000 'Britannia" leading British Railways A4 Pacific 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley' working 0930 Bury to Rawtenstall seen approching Irwell Vale as part of the Legends of Steam Weekend, Irwell Vale, Lancashire, 16.3.24
Steam locomotive 'Britannia' No. 70000 arriving at Shrewsbury station, Shropshire on 26th January 2023 on a test run.
Britannia was built at Crewe, completed on 2 January 1951. It was the first British Railways standard locomotive to be built and the first of 55 locomotives of the Britannia class. The locomotive was named at a ceremony at Marylebone Station by the then Minister for Transport Alfred Barnes on 30 January 1951.
No. 70013 “Oliver Cromwell” is a member of the first class of British Railways Standard locomotives designed by Robin Riddles. The 4-6-2 Pacifics were given the power classification 7 and are generally known as Britannias after the first member of the class, No. 70000. No. 70013 was built at Crewe in 1951.
The steam locomotives is seen with a maroon set of coaches at Hailes Bridge during Gloucestershire-Warwickshire Steam Railway's Cotswold Festival of Steam on 28th May 2018.
This image was published in Railway Herald issue 597.
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British Railways Class 7 70000 "Britannia" approaching Bunbury near Crewe,Cheshire.It was working 1z86 London Euston-Chester on 03/12/2011
BR Standard Class 7 70000 'Britannia' seen passing though Golborne working 5Z16 0650 Crewe H.S. to Preston to later haul the Preston to Carlisle leg of 1Z15 0626 Leicester to Carlisle, Golborne, Greater Manchester, 13.4.24
GWR 4-6-0 No. 7802 BRADLEY MANOR and BR Standard 4-6-2 No. 70000 BRITANNIA begin the climb of Rattery bank with the Paddington - Penzance Duchy Voyager on 14th October 1995.
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BR Standard Class 7 4-6-2 No. 70000 BRITANNIA crosses Combe Viaduct, Saltash with the Paddington - Penzance 'Duchy Voyager' on 14th October 1995.
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"Britannia" 70013 Oliver Cromwell passes Spooner Row, working the return leg of the Railway Touring Company's "The Norfolkman" special from London to Norwich, this being 1Z71 17.03 Norwich - Liverpool Street (via Cambridge). The outward leg had run via Ipswich.
The tour was to mark the sixtieth anniversary (to the day) of the introduction of the "Britannias" on the Great Eastern Main Line, something which revolutionised the London - Norwich timetable. Diesels began to appear in 1958, and 70013 was transferred from Norwich to March in September 1961, and at the end of 1963 to Carlisle Kingmoor. It was the last BR-owned standard gauge steam loco to undergo a routine heavy overhaul, three years after that.
With generous timings, including 21 minutes at Ely, I had over an hour and a half to get from here to Cambridge for a second shot, passing Addenbrooke's Hospital - although the loco wasn't working very hard at that point.
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British Railways Standard Class 7 (Britannia Class) locomotive 70000 "Britannia" takes on water at the West Somerset Railway's Minehead station.
Sunday 18th March 2012
BR standard class 7 No: 70000 'Britannia' passes Langstone Rock after a brief acceleration away from the booked pathing stop at Dawlish Warren. Once the green was visible around the bend the driver opened the regulator along the Sea Wall. 70000 was hauling Saphos Trains, English Riviera Express 1Z60 06:40 High Wycombe to Kingswear, 47810 was on the rear and 47593 was used between High Wycombe and Fairwater Yard.
BR Standard Class 7 70013 Oliver Cromwell heading away into the sun from Haworth Station on day one of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Spring Steam Gala
BR Standard Pacific Class 7 70013 working 5z73 Preston-Carnforth WCRC Depot,passes Woodacre on 30/03/2011
No. 70013 “Oliver Cromwell” is a member of the first class of British Railways Standard locomotives designed by Robin Riddles. The 4-6-2 Pacifics were given the power classification 7 and are generally known as Britannias after the first member of the class, No. 70000. No. 70013 was built at Crewe in 1951.
The locomotives is seen with a maroon set of coaches steaming towards Winchcombe Station during Gloucestershire-Warwickshire Steam Railway's Cotswold Festival of Steam on 28th May 2018.
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LMS Royal Scot class No: 46100 'Royal Scot' leads BR Standard class 7 No: 70000 Britannia out of Parsons Tunnel and onto the Sea Wall at Holcombe working the 'Devonian Express' 1Z46 06:55 Cardiff Central to Plymouth. 47805 was on the rear.
I wasn't going to post this shot. But I'm short of pictures going forward. It was from a morning that was a bit of a disaster. With the LS Blue Pullman coming from York to Paignton via Willesden Junction and West Ealing I wondered about the best place to see it as it came around the capital. I decided to try Willesden Junction as it would have to cross a few sets of points to come off the WCML at Willesden West London Junction to get around the curve to Acton. So the chance for a few shots. And the space between the wires is quite good here from the footbridge over the WCML. But the best laid plans...
In the end a longer than usual wait for a peak hour Central Line train meant I missed my connecting Overground train by 30 seconds. Then the obligatory hold outside Willesden on the West London Line meant that by the time I exited the station at a run the Blue Pullman was already crossing over the points in the distance even though it was running 5 minutes late. Thoroughly annoyed I turned to make the journey back home only to hear a steam whistle behind me. Then large logo 47 593 hove into view under the bridge with a Steam Dreams Charter having passed the Blue Pullman moments earlier. 7000 Britannia was on the back so I ran up onto the bridge and snapped a couple of shots of her going backwards... a consolation prize perhaps?
Seen here at Grosmont station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Original (colour) shot taken 6th May 2011.
BR Standard Class 7 4-6-2 Pacific 70000 ‘Britannia’ powers through Chelford at the head of the 1Z54 11:03 York to Bristol Temple Meads ‘Brexit Express’, run by Jeremy Hosking’s Locomotive Services Limited on Sunday 31st March 2019. Not nearly as much interest in this kettle as in Tornado when it passed the same spot last weekend.
70013 "Oliver Cromwell" on a London Liverpool Street -Norwich working with WCRC 47804 seen approaching Manningtree ,after this photo was taken the engine ran into difficulties further along the line at Diss where a 20mph speed limit was imposed on it running to Norwich due to an engineering issue with a big end bearing.
I have added some images of British Standard class 7 #70013 with the Royal Mail train taken in January 2012 at the Great Central Railway. The weather was very dull but there are some nice static shots at Loughborough.
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... hauling the English Riviera Express tour past the Exe Estuary at Starcross, Devon, England.
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"Burning The Midnight Oil"
A very conveniently situated buffer stop enabled me to get this 8 second exposure (I really must purchase a "portable tripod"). 66705 "Golden Jubilee" Waits departure with 7G14 the 23:59 Hoo Junction Up Yard to Hither Green. The formation being a Super Tench loaded with S&C, a Bass with ballast bags and Balfour Beatty single jib crane. The worksite was at Parks Bridge Jnc where partial renewal of some point work was to take place.
Ex-British Railways Britannia class steam locomotive 70013 Oliver Cromwell crossing the canal in Worcester city centre on a grey, wet and cold afternoon on Saturday February 10th 2018. Oliver Cromwell was in Worcester with the Cotswold Venturer steam special from London Paddington for the Railway Touring Company. Here the Riddles Class 7 4-6-2 engine is traveling with just its support coach between Foregate Street and Shrub Hill after turning round using the triangle from Worcester Tunnel Junction. The narrow boat is considerably older than the Britannia, which was built in 1951. The boat, called Billy, dates back to 1892. A group of us stood at this point and I got the boat crew to reverse a few times to get it in just the right position for the shot on the 29-mile-long Worcester and Birmingham Canal.
BR Standard Class 7 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' crossing Mytholmes Viaduct working the 1140 Keighley - Oxenhope serivce on the KWVR.
'Britannia' No. 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' passes Pudding Hill Lane (DLR) station on 9th September 2008 while heading Steam Dreams 'The Norfolkman', London Liverpool Street - Norwich. Pudding Hill Lane is the first station after Stratford on the Docklasnds Light Railway link to Canary Wharf and beyond. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
British Railways Standard Class 7 No. 70013 "Oliver Cromwell" badged as 720 The Red Dragon on the Great Central Railway's heritage line on 16th November 2016.
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I have added some images of British Standard class 7 #70013 with the Royal Mail train taken in January 2012 at the Great Central Railway. The weather was very dull but there are some nice static shots at Loughborough.
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Lightning still bears the western region red dot route availability code below the cabside number. She is wearing the modified brass edged hand holds retrofitted to the smoke deflectors of Western region allocated engines. This was a consequence of the findings of the enquiry into the 1955 Milton rail crash near Didcot, involving sister locomotive 70026 Polar Star.
SAR-Class 7E2 (Union Carriage and Wagon) Nr. 7170 und 7177 sowie vier weitere 7E2 aus verschiedenen Serien
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At last! A steam tour comes to town after months of silence, today in the form of flagship British Railways Standard Class 7, 70000 'Britannia', hauling the 'Torbay Express' from Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return. Here the train is seen swinging around the corner at Eastcliff just outside Teignmouth station, working the outbound service.
One of the last and most powerful steam locomotives ever built, the British Rail Standard Class 7 was BR's top express locomotive, and could have been utilised far better in its short lifespan, but ended up only serving the railways for 15 years, a blink of an eye compared to other mainline Pacifics of the time that had operated under the pre-nationalisation companies.
Designed by Robert Riddles, who had previously coined the design for the War Department Austerity 2-10-0 and 2-8-0 freight locomotives, the BR Standard Class 7's were conceived of as a result of the 1948 locomotive exchanges, which were done to test the best and worst aspects of locomotive design within the Big Four railway companies that had existed before nationalisation. The research gained from operating the best designs of the GWR, LMS, LNER and Southern railways on different areas of the British Railways network paved the way for several new classes of standardised locomotives to be constructed, largely to replace many of the ageing Victorian era engines that even in the late 1940's continued to ply their merry trade.
The first design requested by the Railway Executive was for a new express passenger Pacific locomotive, designed specifically to reduce maintenance and using the latest available innovations in steam technology from home and abroad. Various labour-saving devices were utilised to produce a simple, standard and effective design, able to produce equivalent power to some of the Pacifics that were still available as legacies of the Big Four.
The basic design of the Standard 7's can be traced to LMS construction practices, largely owed to Riddles' previous career with that company, but complimented this with the boiler and trailing wheel design of the Southern Railway's Merchant Navy Pacifics so as to follow the best design practice. The firebox was also similar in having a rocking grate, which allowed the fire to be rebuilt without stopping the locomotive, removing both ash and clinker on the move. A self-cleaning smokebox was used, which enabled ash to flow into the atmosphere, reducing the workload of the engine cleaner at the end of a working day. A single chimney was placed on top of the smokebox, which was unusual for a Pacific type of locomotive.
The Standard 7's were fitted with 6 ft 2 in driving wheels, allowing these engines greater capacity for use in mixed-traffic working, which made them available for both sustained fast running with heavy passenger trains, yet small enough to allow them to undertake more mundane tasks such as freight haulage.
55 of these engines were constructed between 1951 and 1954, with 70000 'Britannia' being the first and flagship of the fleet, with residual locomotives of the class being dubbed 'Britannia-Class'. Three batches were constructed at Crewe Works, before the publication of the 1955 Modernisation Plan.
Britannia was built at Crewe, completed on 2 January 1951. She was the first British Railways standard locomotive to be built and the first of 55 locomotives of the Britannia class. The locomotive was named at a ceremony at Marylebone Station by the then Minister for Transport Alfred Barnes on 30 January 1951. The BR Locomotive Naming Committee were determined not to use names already in use on other locomotives. They tried to observe this by not selecting the name Britannia for use on 70000 because it was already in use on one of the ex-LMS Jubilee Class locomotives, but Robert Riddles overruled them and the Jubilee had to be renamed.
The Britannias took their names from great Britons, former Star Class locomotives, and Scottish firths, although one locomotive, 70047, was never named. The success of these first Standard Pacifics gave birth to two other Pacific classes over the BR years, including the unique BR Standard Class 8, number 71000 'Duke of Gloucester', which was built in 1954 to replace the destroyed Princess Royal Class locomotive number 46202 Princess Anne, lost in the Harrow and Wealdstone rail disaster of 1952, and the fleet of 10 BR Standard Class 6 'Clan' Pacifics that were employed on services in the west of Scotland, but failed to gain a stellar reputation due to their employment on timetables for the more powerful Standard 7's they couldn't keep up to.
The class gained a warm response from locomotive crews across all British Railway Regions, with especially glowing reports from those operating them from Stratford depot on the Eastern Region, where its lower weight and high power transformed motive power over the restricted East Anglian lines. However, negative feedback was received from various operating departments, most notably on the Western Region. The criticism was primarily out of partisan preference for GWR-designed locomotive stock among Western Region staff; in particular, the class was 'left-hand drive' in contrast to 'right-hand drive' GWR locomotive and signalling practice, a factor in the Milton rail crash of 1955.
For this reason, the Western Region locomotive depots at Old Oak Common and Plymouth Laira declared that the class was surplus to requirements. However Cardiff Canton depot displayed its liking for the class (despite being part of the former GWR empire) and managed to obtain good results on South Wales passenger traffic.
The Midland Region also had favourable reports, but a marked consistency in losing time on the longer runs between Holyhead and Euston was recorded, although all complaints were down to the individual techniques of the operating crews. This was compounded by the irregular allocation of the class to depots all over the network, meaning that few crews ever had a great deal of experience in driving them. The Southern Region also had an allocation of seven in May 1953, when all Merchant Navy Class locomotives were temporarily withdrawn for inspection after 35020 "Bibby Line" sheared a crank axle on the central driving wheel.
Repairs to the class were undertaken at Crewe, Swindon and Doncaster Works until the financial constraints of the British Railways Modernisation Plan in terms of expenditure on steam began to preclude the regular overhaul of locomotives. During the mid-1960s overhauls were carried out exclusively at Crewe Works.
Britannia was initially based at Stratford in order to work East Anglian expresses to Norwich and Great Yarmouth, but was also particularly associated with the Hook Continental boat train to Harwich. Subsequently, the loco was based at Norwich Thorpe in January and March 1959 before spending the remainder of her career on the London Midland Region based at Willesden, Crewe North, Crewe South and finally Newton Heath.
The locomotive also had the distinction of hauling the funeral train for King George VI from King's Lynn, Norfolk to London following his death in February 1952 at Sandringham House, Norfolk. For this task, Britannia had her cab roof painted white, as was the custom with royal locomotives. Britannia has also worn the white roof in preservation.
However, as the locomotives entered the 1960's, the modernisation plan continued to gather pace, and diesel locomotives started to replace steam on most parts of the network. Very soon the Standard 7's placement on Top-Line expresses were demoted to the on-again-off-again work of freight and parcels, and cosmetic maintenance was reduced as their final years loomed. The lavish BR Brunswick Green soon faded to grey, and in some cases BR Lined Black was adopted for ease.
The first locomotive to be withdrawn from service was number 70007 Coeur-de-Lion in 1965, and the entire class was gradually transferred to Carlisle Kingmoor and Glasgow Polmadie depots. Britannia was withdrawn in May 1966, after 15 years of service.
A succession of bulk withdrawals began in 1967, culminating in the very last steam operation in British Railways service on August 11th, 1968, where Standard 7 number 70013 Oliver Cromwell, was chosen to assist in hauling the Fifteen Guinea Special, the last steam hauled British Railways passenger service from Liverpool to Carlisle via the S&C. 70013 was chosen as it was the last the last BR-owned steam locomotive to undergo routine heavy overhaul at Crewe Works, being out-shopped after a special ceremony in February 1967. The engine hauled the Manchester to Carlisle leg of the service via the Settle and Carlisle line, with LMS Class 5 45110, and LMS Stanier Class 5 locomotives, 44781 and 44871 double-heading the return working back to Manchester.
Upon withdrawal, 70000 was initially planned for preservation with the National Railway Museum due to it's cultural significance, but because of its prototypical nature, 70013 was instead chosen and bought up for preservation. 70000 would later be preserved by Britannia Locomotive Company Ltd.
After moving from one home to another, the engine wound up on the Severn Valley Railway, where she remained for a number of years in operational but non-mainline condition. With the society wishing to make more use of the locomotive, she was moved to the European gauge Nene Valley Railway in Peterborough, where she was also fitted with an air-brake compressor. Britannia made her return to the main line on 27 July 1991, successfully working enthusiast trips until 1997.
With an expired mainline boiler certificate, due to the high cost of refurbishment, the locomotive was sold to Pete Waterman in 2000. Stored at Waterman's workshops at the Crewe Heritage Centre, after initial assessment the amount of work resulted in Waterman selling her to Jeremy Hosking. The locomotive underwent restoration at Crewe which involved a newly refurbished cab, a new smoke box and major work on the boiler; replacement steel sides, new crown stays, new front section barrel section, new steel and copper tubeplate, repairs and patches to door plate and major work to copper firebox.
Transferred to the Royal Scot Locomotive and General Trust, the locomotive was returned to main line operational condition in 2011, initially out shopped in its prototype black British Railways livery. After a running-in period, in 2012 the locomotive was repainted in British Railways Brunswick Green, but with an early BR crest. On 24 January 2012, the loco hauled the Royal Train with Prince Charles on board to Wakefield Kirkgate, where he rededicated the locomotive. For the trip the loco again had a painted white cab roof, removed after the engine's appearance at the West Somerset Railway's Spring Gala.
7U71 Cliffe Brett Marine to Stewards Lane loaded sand runs through a very sunny Wateringbury station with 66 018 at the head of the train.
British Railways Standard 7 "Britannia" class 70013 Oliver Cromwell puts on a show near the A6 with a Leicester bound service
Signalling the end to Western Region steam, Swansea Landores BR Brush/Sulzer Type 4 No. D 1728 (TOPS 47 136, then 47 621 and finally 47 839) gets a run past Saltley Station for the climb up St Andrews bank with 7V26, a mixed Class 7 freight from Washwood Heath yard to the West Country, whilst a BR Class 2 steam locomotive shunts coaches in the distance.
Ironically 42 years later the locomotive would be named 'The pride of Saltley' for a short period of time.
F.A. Haynes - Summer 1964.
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BR Standard Class 7 No. 70000 Britannia negotiates the tight curves at Nappa, just south of Hellifield, on the return leg of Pathfinder Tours 'Cumbrian Fells Express' from Carlisle to Bristol Temple Meads on 30th May 2015.