B1 as 61036 'Mayflower'

 

This photo is of 61036  Mayflower with British Railways in full on the tender and 61036 on the cab sides. This change was for just this one weekend only at this time, during this NVR 1960s Weekend in April 2007.

 

After this weekend it was returned back to its normal colours, which it has been in since it was saved. This has been LNER on the tender and the number 1306.

 

The numbers and letters which were added for this one weekend, which were only vinyls over the painted numbers, so as they would do no harm. The Mayflower name plates had also been blacked over.

 

The number 61306 was put onto this B1 because this BI is 61306. This locomotive was built by The North British Locomotive Company in 1948 and delivered to British Railways not the LNER.

 

This is more like what it would have looked like when it was new.

 

The LNER Apple Green and number 1306 is all wrong for this engine, but the owner likes it, and it is his engine after all. It always looks clean and runs very well. was a B1 whos number was 61379 which was named Mayflower, but this locomotive was scrapped and the nameplates sold.

 

The LNER B1 class were designed by Edward Thompson and was introduced from 1942. number 8301 was the first engine and it was named Springbok with 18 more being named after antilopes and 18 more were named after LNER directers.

 

Only 10 B1s were built during the war, but orders were then placed with the Vulcan Foundry and the North British Locomotive Company to get things moving. The rest were built at Darington. 274 B1s were built between 1942 and 1947 in LNER days and 136 B1s were built between 1948 and 1953 under BR.

 

 

View of the tender  of 61036 Mayflower with British Railways in full on the tender and 61036 on the cab sides on the breakdown train at Orton Mere railway station. On this  web photo you can just see the vinyls put over the painted numbers and letters just for this weekend.

 

 

B1 as 61306 Mayflower on the turntable at Wansford station 28th April 2007

 

From 2014 the locomotive has a new owner. This locomotive, is now pained in these colours, and was based at the North Norfolk railway when not on the mainline at this time.

 

  

 

 

 

The Nene Valley Railway runs from Peterborough to Wansford railway station and then on to Yarwell junction. Wansford Station is on part of the old A1 at Stibbingson and is about 2 miles from the village of Wansford itself. The railway line is about 7 1/2 miles long. Trains run at weekends for most of the year.

The station at Wansford railway station is open from around 9am to 4.30 on most days. (check on there web site for times) The line runs trains from this country and also from abroad. As well as steam locomotives it also has main line and industrial diesels. It has wagons and coaches and a large collection of railway bits and bobs. At the Peterborough end of the NVR is the Rail World Museum which is next to the Nene Valley Railways Peterborough station.

 

This website is Ukrailways1970tilltoday.me.uk it is on railways but it is not just on trains but all things railways, with photos, which I have taken from the 1970s till now. I take photos of all things railways, steam diesel and electric trains, signal boxes, wagons any thing that is on the National Rail network, which was BR when I started taking photos