73164 at Banbury being scrapped by J Friswell Ltd. 14th March 1965

            73164 at Banbury being scrapped by J Friswell Ltd.
BR Standard 5 4-6-0 no. 73164 entered service in March 1957 and was allocated to the North Eastern Region shed at York. One of ten new Standard 5 locos allocated there, they were used on services to Sheffield, Wakefield, Scarborough and Hull. They also worked north to Darlington and Newcastle and appeared on the York-Harrogate-Leeds circuit. In November 1958 73162-6 were displaced to Huddersfield by an influx of LNER V2 2-6-2s from the Great Central. Here they were employed on freight and passenger workings across the Pennines to Stockport, Manchester and Liverpool. The onset of dieselisation  saw the transfer of 73162-6 away from Huddersfield and 73164 had an inter regional transfer to Bath Green Park in September 1963. It then remained a Western Region engine, moving to Bristol Barrow Road in November 1963 (see Patrick O'Brien's photo below when allocated here) and Oxford in September 1964 before withdrawal in December 1964.

All BR Standard tender engines allocated new to the Western Region had variants of the BR1 tender with an inset at the top but the flush top design, seen here with 73164, seems to have been preferred by other regions once it became available from mid 1954. However engines usually retained the flush tenders if transferred to the Western Region.

The tender in the picture is a BR1C with a capacity of 4725 gallons of water and and a partition fitted to the coal space limiting the capacity to 9 tons of coal. The tender capacity plate and numberplate are still in place and the last two digits of the numberplate are decipherable on the original scan confirming that it is tender 1452, the tender 73164 entered service with in 1957.

J. Friswell were a Banbury based scrap merchant who used part of Banbury shed yard to cut up locomotives. The sidings used were at the south end of the depot west of the turntable and the picture is taken looking south (thanks to Steve Banks for this information). They only cut up 15 locomotives, mainly GWR Halls and it seems to have been a fairly part time operation with cutting up of each loco spread over several weeks, and sometimes even longer. This is compared to some of the major scrap yards that would demolish a loco in 2-3 days. According to What Happened To Steam website 73164 was still being cut up in early May 1964. The frames of the loco in front are from one of the two GWR 72XX 2-8-2T's that Friswell cut up, based on a photo in David Hills Flickr photostream this will be number 7221.

Most of the information above is drawn from the RCTS History of British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives series.

From a negative bought with copyright.

Taken on: March 14, 1965

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