NBL Build plate

[Flying Phil]

My Father in Law bought a railway brass plate many years ago. It is a (trapezoidal?) or Diamond shape, "North British Locomotive", number 26094, dated 1947. I have tried to find what locomotive it could have been from as it is a number close to the preserved B1 "Mayflower" I believe.

 

[tomatwark]

Phil
Think it is this loco

http://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=600201194&loco=1193

 

[Flying Phil]

Brilliant! Many thanks tomatwark.....now I will have to get a Hornby B1 and re-number it!

 

[randyrippley]

Five replacement boilers in ten years?
Is that indicative of a generic problem, or was it a case of the boiler got lifted every time it went into works and they dropped back in the first one to hand?

 

[Bevan Price]

Swapping boilers at heavy overhauls was quite common. Using a spare boiler enabled you to get a working loco back in service quicker than waiting for the original boiler to be repaired.

 

[randyrippley]

Swapping boilers at heavy overhauls was quite common. Using a spare boiler enabled you to get a working loco back in service quicker than waiting for the original boiler to be repaired.

Five in a ten year period just seemed a bit excessive though - was a heavy repair every two years normal?

 

[tomatwark]

It spent its life based at Doncaster which is a hard water area, so it is probably due to this that the boiler was changed over a fair bit.

 

[Clarence Yard]

Two years between classified overhauls is right for a B1. Don't forget steam engines had a shorter classified shopping "life" than their diesel successors.

Boilers were nearly always removed, repaired and replaced on other locos of the same class at the English ex LNER shops. In Scotland the B1 class could retain their boiler with an intermediate repair but they could also take them out, when needed, at a heavy casual so you could get a succession of intermediates with HC boiler replacements in between.

 

[Rocketdownline]

My Father in Law bought a railway brass plate many years ago. It is a (trapezoidal?) or Diamond shape, "North British Locomotive", number 26094, dated 1947. I have tried to find what locomotive it could have been from as it is a number close to the preserved B1 "Mayflower" I believe.

My friend was given a plate with the same number having seen it about to be thrown into a skip at a farm in Kent. She then gave it to my husband - a steam enthusiast and boyhood train spotter! He said type B1 61193.From his shed code book it was a 4-6-0 5MT Class B1 Introduced 1942 Thompson design. Weight loco 71 tons 3cwt. tender 52 tons. 61189 was just before it - Sir William Gray.

 

[Taunton]

Two years between classified repairs (actually an overhaul) would be right for a main line loco like a B1; repair intervals were normally done on mileage rather than time. And there would commonly be more boilers than frames (which the works number belonged to). Boilers had separate numbers, and on some railways were interchangeable between different classes,