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THE END OF THE LINE - VALHALLA!

I have created this gallery to include those locomotives and otherwise that are actually in the process of being cut-up, dismantled or scrapped as opposed to being the victims of accidents, which of course they may have been originally, but mainly the disposal of redundant stock. Others may be of engines awaiting their fate in scrapyards. And, as an afterthought I have decided to include pictures of locomotives employed therein, many of which eventually fell under the cutter's torch in that same yard.
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DONCASTER WORKS - Class K3 No.61808 had been withdrawn from 40E Colwick in September 1961 and is seen here bring cut up at Doncaster Works just one month later.
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DONCASTER WORKS - Class K3 No.61808 had been withdrawn from 40E Colwick in September 1961 and is seen here bring cut up at Doncaster Works just one month later.

  • DONCASTER WORKS - 46032 had been withdrawn as long ago as October 1981 but it was still, barely, hanging on in May 1985. I don't think 03175 is going anywhere again!
  • DONCASTER WORKS - 55003 MELD was an early Deltic casualty having been withdrawn in December 1980. It is seen here partially dismantled in February 1981.
  • DONCASTER WORKS - 55010 THE KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERER was withdrawn on Xmas Eve 1981 and by May 1982 this was all that remained of it. Note the Deltic engine block in the foreground.
  • DONCASTER WORKS - 60501 COCK O'THE NORTH was withdrawn from 50A York North in February 1960 and is seen here being scrapped at Doncaster Works in May 1960.
  • DONCASTER WORKS - Class K3 No.61808 had been withdrawn from 40E Colwick in September 1961 and is seen here bring cut up at Doncaster Works just one month later.
  • DONCASTER WORKS - GNR Class N2 0-6-2T No.69590 had been withdrawn from 34A Kings Cross in June 1957 and is seen here partly dismantled at Doncaster Works. Note the sidesheets of classmate No.69558 behind it.
  • DONCASTER WORKS - Work is well advanced on the dismantling of 31015 in November 1980. The loco, ex-D5515, had been withdrawn the previous May.
  • EASTLEIGH WORKS - 30739 KING LEODEGRANCE - Urie/Maunsell LSWR/SR King Arthur Class 4-6-0 - built 02/19 by Eastleigh Works as SR No.739 - 03/49 to BR No.30739 - 04/57 withdrawn from 71B Bournemouth - seen here in Eastleigh Works Scrapyard, 05/57 - note nameplate still in situ.
  • EASTLEIGH WORKS - 30766 SIR GERAINT - Urie/Maunsell LSWR/SR King Arthur Class 4-6-0 - built 05/25 by North British Loco Co. as SR No.766 - 01/49 to BR No.30766 - 12/58 withdrawn from 73A Stewarts Lane - seen here in Eastleigh Works Scrapyard, 10/59.
  • EASTLEIGH WORKS - 30786 SIR LIONEL - Urie/Maunsell LSWR/SR King Arthur Class 4-6-0 - built 08/25 by North British Loco Co. as SR No.786 - 09/48 to BR No.30786 - 08/59 withdrawn from 70A Nine Elms - seen here on Eastleigh scrapline, 28/10/59.
  • EASTLEIGH WORKS - 30786 SIR LIONEL - Urie/Maunsell LSWR/SR King Arthur Class 4-6-0 - built 08/25 by North British Loco Co. as SR No.786 - 09/48 to BR No.30786 - 08/59 withdrawn from 70A Nine Elms - seen here on Eastleigh scrapline, 28/10/59.
  • EASTLEIGH WORKS - 47709 - BR Class 47 Co-Co DE - built 06/66 by Brush Traction, Loughborough, as BR No.D1942 - 02/74 to BR No.47499, 09/79 to BR No.47709 - 02/07 withdrawn by DRS - seen here in the course of destruction at Eastleigh Works on December 10th, 2012. This loco had been around in it's time - Glasgow-Edinburgh Push/Pull, RES, Fragonset, DRS.
  • EASTLEIGH WORKS - 58008 - BR Class 59 Co-Co DE - built 12/83 by Doncaster Works - 11/99 withdrawn - seen here in process of being dismantled at Eastleigh Works in April 2016. How can this possibly justified? 16 years in traffic!
  • G. COHEN LTD, Tinsley - Class 88DS 4wDM - built 1967 by Ruston & Hornsby & Co., Works No.513142 - seen here in Cohen's yard in February 1976.
  • G. COHEN LTD., Cransley, Kettering - 0-4-0DM - built 1950 by John Fowler & Co., Leeds, Works No.4210012. for Vauxhall Motors, Luton - seen here at Cransley with another Fowler engine, similar to or could be Army 243.
  • G. COHEN LTD., Cransley, Kettering - 0-4-0DM - built 1958 by John Fowler & Co., Leeds, Works No.4210143, for the Ministry of Power at Chorley as No.6 - used for a while as yard shunter in the early 1970's - seen here at Cransley in June 1970.
  • G. COHEN LTD., Cransley, Kettering - 600 NELLIE - 0-4-0PM - built during World War 1 as narrow gauge, armour-plated petrol tractor, converted 1926 by Kent Construction Ltd., Works No.1553, to standard gauge and supplied as new to Kettering Urban District Council - October 1963 sold to Cohen's at Cransley - December 1973 broken up.
  • G. COHEN LTD., Cransley, Kettering - 63644 - Robinson GCR Class 04/8 2-8-0 - built 01/18 by Kitson & Co. as WD No.1603 - 03/29 to LNER as No.6543, 11/46 to LNER No.3644, 08/49 to BR No.63644 - 01/66 withdrawn from 40E Colwick - seen here in April 1966.
  • G. COHEN LTD., Cransley, Kettering - 74006 - BR/EE Class 74 Bo-Bo ED - built 10/60 by Doncaster Works as E5023 - 11/67 to E6106, 1973 to 74006 - withdrawn 06/76 from Eastleigh TMD - seen here at Cohens Scrapyard, Kettering, in July 1977.
  • G. COHEN LTD., Cransley, Kettering - ARMY 243 - 0-4-0DM - built 1939 by John Fowler & Co., Leeds, Works No.22890 for the War Department - seen here at Cransley, where it may have been scrapped or put to further use (see other pictures).
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