Leeds City station - 1950s pilots

[6Gman]

Leeds City station had a complex role with the North Eastern Railway, the Midland and the LNW all using it. So does anyone know what the station pilot arrangements would have been in the mid-50s? A Holbeck 3FT? Something from Neville Hill? Or something else?

Thanks.

 

[Harvester]

Leeds City station had a complex role with the North Eastern Railway, the Midland and the LNW all using it. So does anyone know what the station pilot arrangements would have been in the mid-50s? A Holbeck 3FT? Something from Neville Hill? Or something else?

Thanks.

I only visited Leeds City Station once in steam days. On that day in August 1962, the station pilots were Neville Hill allocated 2-6-4Ts 42188, 80118, 80119 and Holbeck allocated 2-6-2T 41267. It would appear that Neville Hill was the main provider, and maybe so in the mid-fifties.

 

[6Gman]

I only visited Leeds City Station once in steam days. On that day in August 1962, the station pilots were Neville Hill allocated 2-6-4Ts 42188, 80118, 80119 and Holbeck allocated 2-6-2T 41267. It would appear that Neville Hill was the main provider, and maybe so in the mid-fifties.

Thank you for that. The 4MTs didn't arrive until the later 1950s, but Neville Hill had some ex-Hull & Barnsley N13s (0-6-2Ts) in 1955; perhaps they were used? There were very few tank engines on the allocation.

 

[dazzler]

Having just spoken to my father who grew up in Rothwell (South Leeds) and would have been spotting regularly around Leeds in the mid-fifties, he seems to think that at Leeds City station they just used locos that were spare on depot for pilot duties, or a train engine between duties, rather than specifically allocated pilot locos.

Leeds Central, on the other hand, had specific station pilots allocated from Copley Hill depot.

 

[Western Sunset]

Remember that Leeds City was still very much two separate stations into the 1950s - the Midland side (ex-Wellington) and the NE.