Accrington Railways - Robert Kenyon

April The Health Committee met, when a letter was received from the Dock Superintendent of the L & Y in Fleetwood offering quantities of fish offal for the extraction of oil and conversion to fertiliser at the destructor’s plant in Accrington. The Health Inspector recommended they took up this offer, and he was authorised to make arrangements to have it delivered by motor wagon. Here are some details of some locomotives allocated to shed number 22 which date from 1920. Kitson Locomotive (Aspinall Rebuild ) Class Type L & Y number LMS New Withdrawn 23 0 – 6 – 0 saddle tank 540 (11331) June 1892 October 1926

An LMS number was allocated to this locomotive but not carried. Hughes Locomotives Class Type L & Y number LMS & BR numbers New

Withdrawn

5

2 – 4 – 2 tank 2 – 4 – 2 tank 2 – 4 – 2 tank 2 – 4 – 2 tank 2 – 4 – 2 tank 2 – 4 – 2 tank 2 – 4 – 2 tank 2 – 4 – 2 tank 2 – 4 – 2 tank

816

10870

March 1905

March 1943

5

868

10877

June 1905

May 1931

5

869

10939

June 1905

March 1945

5

1463

10881

July 1905

June1946

5

1464

10882

July 1905

August 1944

5

1531

10891 & 50891

February 1910 March 1950

6

1536

10925 & 50925

March 1910

August 1952

6

1539

10926

March 1910

March 1928

5 April 1932 Locomotive number 816 was the first of the class and had a short but widened tapered chimney and an enlarged blastpipe, and Belpair firebox. It had a spell at Accrington before being transferred to Colne shed, a sub-shed of Accrington. Locomotive number 1463 had a non-standard chimney and blastpipe from the others of the class. Locomotives were later superheated with Top & Bottom equipment, in June 1925 (868), February 1921 (869), June 1926 (1464), August 1925 (1531) and June 1925 (1540). Both locomotives 1536 and 1539 were fitted with Schmidt superheaters in September 1914. Aspinall Locomotive Clas s Type L & Y number LMS number New Withdrawn 6 2 – 4 – 2 tank 693 10972 July 1898 November 1929 This locomotive was fitted with a Belpair/Schmidt boiler in March 1915. Aspinall Locomotives Clas s Type L & Y number LMS number New Withdrawn 6 2 – 4 – 2 tank 267 10923 November 1898 November 1947 6 2 – 4 – 2 tank 627 10926 March 1899 October 1928 Both these locomotives were fitted with Belpair/Schmidt boilers in September 1914 (267) and January 1915 (627). 1540 10895 March 1910

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