A Black 5 for Pete!
Submitted by Philip M. Hicks on 28th April 2011
Taken on 28 June 1958
Hello - Pete especially! Here is that Black 5 I promised you Pete. A Black 5 has arrived at Bristol Temple Meads with an express from the Midland Region and will be going to some unknown destination further West. To arrive in Bristol she has come from an unusual shed - 2A Rugby. I'm sorry but I have no idea of her number so she could be your #45349 Pete! Rugby had 32 Black 5's allocated to it in 1948 but your engine was not among them. That allocation I'm sure would have been steady at that number into the 1950's - Could she have been there then? I can only determine that she was at 3D Aston shed in 1948. My regards, Phil H. Leura. Oz.
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Hello Phil
This will please somebody thats for sure! though it's a jolly good shot of the Five, very sharp picture and the angle of the picture shows good foreshortening. So making her seem far bigger than "just" a 4-6-0 Stanier Five. Many thanks for this.
Regards Ant.
P.S Im sure Petes got all the allocations right up to when she was scrapped.
Ant - looking back on SOME of my photos now and all of the b & w ones were taken with a ordinary straight 50mm lens, my photograpic teacher did get through to me the art of using the depth of field to give one shots like this one. Thanks for the compliment, I hope Pete likes it! regards, Phil H. Leura. Oz.
Phil-- Thanks for the '5' It looks big enough to be a 'Princess, No ,not that one, Unusual for the 2A plate
in your day as it was only at Rugby for 14 mnths in 1937?38, unless youre older than I thought!It was an Aston loco from 8/45 --- 9/63. It was at Northampton for 14 mths63/64 and 8 mnths in 65 I don't think 2A was ever Northampton but I may be wrong.I do have a photo of it under Barrow Rd. arches with Northampton stencilled on the buffer beam, no date, but that was Cowlairs practice after works visits.This would put it in the times/dates as above and was obtained from A Brian Golledge in Bristol. Do you remember him from Bristol days? Regarding the 'Gold Tops' if they were/are that good how come the Black 5s are top of the leader board??
Pete - The black 5 in my photo most likely isn't your favourite - #45349. I didn't mean to imply it was, just that you could imagine it might be. As I said, I've no idea about her number. However photos can't lie [ well not back in the 1950's to an ordinary photographer ] the 5 in my photo had a 2A shed plate on her smokebox door, that would have been unusual for a loco at Bristol. Oh, bye the bye - top of whose leader board? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the 5's were [are] handsome and very useful locomotives, I'll grant you that! My regards, Phil H. Leura. Oz.