MY LIFE IN TRAINS
Engine Portraits - Part Eleven
Barnstaple Junction and Exmouth Junction – 5 September 1960
Clutching my rover ticket and the unneeded shed permit, I set off through Exeter to Barnstaple for a visit to Barnstaple Junction shed.
After looking round the shed, I made a return trip to Torrington behind an M7, and then travelled back to Exeter, making my way in the late afternoon to the Southern shed at Exmouth Junction.
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I’ve managed to find my notes from this day, so here are the lists of the engines on shed while I was there:
Barnstaple Junction
GWR Churchward 4300 Class 2-6-0
7319
LSWR Drummond M7 Class 0-4-4T
30247, 30251, 30253 and 30254
SECR Maunsell N Class 2-6-0
31833
BR-built Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T
41295, 41297, 41298, 41312 and 41314
Exmouth Junction
LSWR Adams 0415 Class 4-4-2T
30583, 30584
LSWR Drummond M7 Class 0-4-4T
30044, 30045, 30125, 30667, 30668, 30670, 30676
LSWR Drummond 700 Class 0-6-0 ‘Black Motor’
30327, 30691
LSWR Drummond T9 Class ‘Greyhound’ 4-4-0
30313, 30715, 30717, 30719
SECR Maunsell N Class 2-6-0
31831, 31839, 31845
SR Maunsell U Class 2-6-0
31805
SR Maunsell Z Class 0-8-0T
30953, 30954, 30957
SR Bulleid Light Pacific 4-6-2 (‘West Country’ and ‘Battle of Britain’)
34002 ‘Salisbury’, 34010 ‘Sidmouth’, 34011 ‘Tavistock’, 34030 ‘Watersmeet’, 34062 ’17 Squadron’, 34074 ’47 Squadron’ and 34075 ‘264 Squadron’.
SR Bulleid ‘Merchant Navy’ 4-6-2
35010 ‘Blue Star’, 35018 ‘British India Line’, 35022 ‘Holland-America Line’ and 35029 ‘Ellerman Lines’
BR-built Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T
41308 and 41318
BR Class 3 2-6-2T
82024 and 82025
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You will have seen some of these photographs before if you followed My Story.
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All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
GWR 2-6-0 4300 Class No 7319 at Barnstaple Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
LMSR Ivatt 2-6-2T No 41297 at Barnstaple Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
Stephen Arrandale's colourised version of LMSR Ivatt 2-6-2T No 41297 at Barnstaple Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
Outside Barnstaple Junction shed LSWR M7 Class 0-4-4T No 30251 simmers behind sister engine 30254 on 5 September 1960.
LSWR M7 0-4-4T No 30254 with two sister engines at Barnstaple Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
LSWR M7 0-4-4T No 30253 at Barnstaple Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
LMSR Ivatt 2-6-2T No 41314 stands under the sheerlegs at Barnstaple Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
LMSR Ivatt 2-6-2 T No 41297 at its home shed of Barnstaple Junction on 5 September 1960 with SECR N Class 2-6-0 No 31833 in the background.
A close up of the motion of GWR 4300 Class 2-6-0 No 7319 at Barnstaple Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
LSWR M7 0-4-4T No 30247 at Barnstaple Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
LSWR M7 0-4-4T No 30247 at Barnstaple Junction shed on 5 September 1960 - anyone for Rich Tea biscuits?
LSWR T9 4-4-0 Greyhound No 30719 outside Exmouth Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
LSWR T9 4-4-0 Greyhound No 30313 outside Exmouth Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
SECR N Class 2-6-0 No 31845 sits in evening sunshine outside Exmouth Junction shed on 5 September 1960.
