Black Five 44806
Black Five 44806
Originally numbered 4806 by the LMS, it had 40000 added to its number under British Railways after nationalisation in 1948. 44806 was one of the last locomotives to be withdrawn from service, surviving until 1968, the last year of steam on British Railways. 44806 was an early candidate for preservation, moving directly from BR to the Steamtown collection at Carnforth, where it was housed in the same locomotive depot where steam's final fires had been dropped only recently. This meant that it was not subjected to the years of neglect and parts-stripping at Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales which was the fate of many. This Image was taken on Day two of the North Yorkshire Moors Railways Wartime Weekend at Grosmont Station.
David Hollingworth
Image size: 6016 x 4016, 14.26Mb | Camera details: NIKON D750 | Date uploaded: 27/11/2019