Accrington Train station

[Less]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

I reckon 45378 was a Black 5.

Right, I'll get me anorak.

If memory serves you are correct but only 5 of the black 5's were given names and that wasn't one of them.

Don't forget your hi vis jacket you left it on the platform last time.

[david1]

I guess you live in congleton cheshire , and go to Crewe quite alot , 4 ??

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by Less

If memory serves you are correct but only 5 of the black 5's were given names and that wasn't one of them.

Don't forget your hi vis jacket you left it on the platform last time.

Seem to remember that there were about three Black 5s working out of Accy sheds, but none of 'em were namers amd none of 'em were 45378.

PS - if you see the stationmaster before me, could you tell him that if he finds a duffle bag with a tartan thermos flask, some half-eated corned beef butties and an Ian Allan combined volume, it's mine?

[david1]

I think they have a Black 5 parked up at Carnforth at the moment

[Mr Cratchit]

Good track layout of Accrington Station on Old Maps of Lancashire

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Mr Cratchit

Good track layout of Accrington Station on Old Maps of Lancashire

There is already a track layout of Accy Station on another thread. The first ordnance survey map of Accrington was 1846/7. There is a copy in Accy Library.

Retlaw.

[Lord Stiffupperlip]

https://railcar.co.uk/images/153
Here's an image guaranteed to produce a warm glow of nostalgia for every boy of the Hornby-Dublo generation.
Taken on Friday 6th May 1960 by D H Dyson, it shows two young schoolboys standing in the Accrington steam maintenance shed, awestruck at the sight before them.
In those long gone days before PlayStation, the only interest for many boys was... a real station!
Back then, every trainspotter clutching his Ian Allen book of locomotives lived in hope of spotting a 'namer'.
Alas, in our industrial backwater dominated by grimy 'black-fives', this proved almost as rare as a win on the Littlewoods Pools.
Imagine the surprise & joy for these two boys when, as the saying goes; 'You wait ages for a bus then two arrive together.
For standing before them are two VIP visitors. The mighty 46100 'Royal Scot' & it's stablemate 46112 'Sherwood Forester'. Both being prepared to work a Blackburn to London football special for the FA Cup Final between Blackburn Rovers & Wolverhampton Wanderers the following day.
Lurking in the background like a cuckoo in the nest, rests a class 113 DMU which all too soon would sound the death-knell for the days of steam & trainspotting.
I wonder who these young lads were & how they managed to gain access to an area of such potential danger?
Elf'n'safety would be apoplectic with rage today - heads would definitely roll!
PS. Wolves beat Rovers 3-0 in the final.
Image by kind permission of railcar.co.uk

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Lord Stiffupperlip

I wonder who these young lads were & how they managed to gain access to an area of such potential danger?

Not had you pegged as a "Spotter" yer Wurshipfullness! As to the whys & wherefores I would suggest (as was my case) large amounts of "Oktoberfest Bier".


After visiting the "Oktoberfest" kicking out time came round & I shambled along after the crowds heading home, I knew I had to get on the S-Bahn & head generally eastwards, problem being Alcohol & locational awareness were competeing, I found "An S-Bahn" & tried to buy a ticket from a somewhat bemused Germing Chappy in "coveys".


He noticed the accent & Beer induced inane grin, he then politely pointed me away to the station & out of his rather large Rail maintainence workshop.