The Railway Magazine – July 2019

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1.One of Tinsley Marshalling

Yard’s trio of ‘master-and-slave’

Class 13s No. 13003 moves over

the yard ‘hump’ in April 1978. The

Class 13s were unique to Tinsley,

having been converted from Class

08sin1965.Twoofthethree

units saw use until the end of

hump shunting in 1985.LES NIXON

2.Andrew Barclay-built No. D2423

(later to become Class 06

No.06006)wasoneofthefirst15

of the type, identifiable by having

three windows on the back of the

cab. It is pictured at its long-term

home of Inverness on September

15, 1970, but was transferred to

Aberdeen Ferryhill the following

July.RAIL PHOTOPRINTS

4.Another Class 03 – No. 03060 –

shunts the coal chutes at Sowerby

Bridge on March 23, 1979.

Wainhouse Tower in the

background is the tallest

structure in Calderdale, and the

tallest folly anywhere in the world.

DAVE RODGERS

5.Class 08 No. 08737 is cast

in the shadows from Crewe

station’s overall roof as it sits in

bay platform 1b with the stock

for an afternoon parcels service

to Cardiff on September 28, 1979.

STEVE IRELAND

3.Class03No.03086,withthe

obligatory match truck to activate

track circuits, carries out a little

container shunting at Ipswich

on August 3, 1982. The loco had

slightly more than a year left

in service, being withdrawn in

November 1983. Who remembers

National Carriers?LES NIXON

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