Accrington Railways - Robert Kenyon

Accrington & Colne Colne & Accrington

38 35 22 32 27 25

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Accrington & Ramsbottom

18

Bury & Accrington

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Blackburn & Rose Grove (via Padiham)

17 15

Rose Grove to Blackburn (via Padiham)

The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway’s Stores Van This was a special van, allocated to the East Lancs Division, (one of five), all exclusively for the distribution of stores around the sheds. These could be anything from oils, cleaning cloths and small mechanical parts ordered by each individual shed in order to keep their engines in running order and looking smart, as was the edict of the L & Y’s management. It also supplied fitters with the bits to avoid engines having to make visits to Horwich works for repairs. Based at Horwich, it would depart Mondays to Fridays at 17:44 and during the evening it would run via Bolton to call in at Lower Darwen shed, then visit Rose Grove and Colne before returning to Accrington sheds at 21:58. There it would be shunted by the shed pilot engine and having unloaded the necessary items would depart at 22:50 to visit Lostock Hall sheds and those on the Fylde Coast before returning to Horwich in the early hours. In order to provide sand for the locomotives’ sand boxes, which was applied to assist in adhesion, this was collected at a place convenient for a siding at Squires Gate, to dispatch it all around the L & Y system. Special Rolling Stock Mention should be made of the conversion of several former 6-wheel passenger brake vans, which the L & Y had made exclusively available for the firm of E. J. Riley Ltd of Accrington, manufacturers of all types of sports equipment. With a reputation for producing the finest billiard tables, these vans were loaded at a siding adjacent to the Willow Works on Dale Street for export around the globe, the weight of a 12´ x 6´ table with a slate bed requiring a more specialised type of conveyance.

Accrington Locomotives Class by Class on January 1 st , 1922

Clas s

Lancashire & Yorkshire Numbers

Total

5 39, 88, 716, 862, 868, 1044, 1179, 1218, 1270, 1347, 1384, 1386, 1387, 1529 (1) , 1531 (2) ,1536 (1) , 1539 (1) , 1540 (2) .

18

6

3 3 3 3

267, 627 (3) , 693 (3) . 23, 203, 264. 944*, 953, 963. 387, 454, 467.

22

23 128, 137, 171, 179, 180, 306, 529, 540, 555, 571, 587, 594, 767, 774, 780, 786, 809, 811.

18

25 26

27 13*, 40, 78*, 161*, 279*, 335*, 426, 431 (4) , 456, 470, 604 (5) , 620, 884 (5) , 887 (5) , 889 (5) , 896 (5) , 897 (5) , 1022, 1031 (5) , 1088, 1090, 1118, 1150, 1237, 1243, 1244, 1253, 1282, 1294, 1296, 1297. 31 28 665, 926, 1021 (6) , 901 (6) . 4 30 79 (8), 114 (7), 154 (8), 159 (8), 987 (8), 1426 (8), 1473 (9), 1495 (8). 8 31 141, 697, 1438, 1551, 1552, 1611, 1619, 1625, 1626, 1643. 10 32 1501, 1502, 1505. 3 5 2-4-2 Aspinall tanks, (1) fitted with Schmidt superheaters , (2) fitted with top & bottom superheaters 6 2-4-2 Hughes tanks, (3) fitted with Belpair boilers & Schmidt superheaters. 22 0-6-2 tanks, built in Glasgow by Dubs.

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