whats the loco

[peanuts]

This popped up in my local Facebook feed taken on the A62 on the climb from Delph to Scouthead heading west any ideas possibly for export ? 

[62613]

The subject of the original photo was the bus behind the support wagon, with the comment "This is what it used to be like on Saturday mornings on the A62; crawling along at 4m.p.h. behind an outsize load"; and before the M62 was built, that's exactly what it was like!

 

[NorthBrit]

 I remember it well.  Travelling in a Hudson Ward of Leeds lorry to Liverpool.   Under the 'Dockers' Umbrella'.  Collect a load of grain and return to Leeds.  At times we would be the slow moving vehicle going 'up the hill'.  

[jonny777]

There appears to be a handy description of the loco on the side of the low-loader, but it is at such an oblique angle that I can't quite read it. 

 

Edited to add, are the first words on the top line "Newton-Chambers"?

Edited September 1, 2020 by jonny777

[Lochgorm]

17 minutes ago, jonny777 said:

There appears to be a handy description of the loco on the side of the low-loader, but it is at such an oblique angle that I can't quite read it. 

 

Edited to add, are the first words on the top line "Newton-Chambers"?

I think that the sign refers to the name of the hauliers.

 

Charlie

[Nearholmer]

N-C were a heavy engineering company, but not a locomotive builder, so more likely they’ve taken-on the haulage for others.

 

Im racking my brain to identify the loco, because it rings a bell, but so far the memory disc is failing me.

[Jeremy Cumberland]

32 minutes ago, jonny777 said:

There appears to be a handy description of the loco on the side of the low-loader, but it is at such an oblique angle that I can't quite read it. 

 

Edited to add, are the first words on the top line "Newton-Chambers"?

Towards the end of the top line there appears to be "DIESEL ELECTRIC" and the bottom line is certainly "STOCKTON ON TEES", which suggests MetroVic to me (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowesfield_Works).

 

I know very little of their output, but it bears quite a lot of similarity with the WAGR X class: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGR_X_class

 

Edited September 1, 2020 by Jeremy C

[petethemole]

The second line reads "Stockton on Tees" if that's any help.

 

Beaten to it with Stockton, but I agree there's a very close resemblance to the X-class.  Looking at the sign again it does look like "Metropolitan Vickers", but enlarged it goes to gibberish.

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[Nearholmer]

I reckon it is an X/XA - the lack of portholes on the side threw me, but they have been blanked-off for transit, making me think they were something else.

[nigb55009]

The more I looked at the wording on the trailer the more I thought it said Metropolitan-Vickers. I had a quick Google and I think the loco is an XA class built for the Western Australia Government Railway. The locos were built at Stockton-on-Tees. They were built in three batches between 1954 and 1963, which fits with date of the photo. The arrangement of the grilles etc match the various photos I found. 

[jonny777]

54 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

I reckon it is an X/XA - the lack of portholes on the side threw me, but they have been blanked-off for transit, making me think they were something else.

 

Excellent detective work, if I may say so. 

 

Looks like one has been preserved - http://www.hothamvalleyrailway.com.au/xa_diesel_loco.htm

[34theletterbetweenB&D]

Still happening up North. We had a very slow stage on the A689 while in Northumberland this August,  a piece of unidentifiable heavy kit, way too large for this country lane with both significant gradients and cottages built very close to the roadway.

[SRman]

I was late coming in on this topic, but the moment I saw it I thought WAGR X/XA class, as already identified by others above.

[PatB]

2 hours ago, jonny777 said:

 

Excellent detective work, if I may say so. 

 

Looks like one has been preserved - http://www.hothamvalleyrailway.com.au/xa_diesel_loco.htm

There are more than one. There's at least one other example in the railway museum at Bassendean too. 

[S&DWatty]

That looks to be Albion Farm in the background too with the chicken sheds.  Egg production locally was popular.  One of my neighbours was involved and said there was a bonus for producing 1 million eggs per year.  He missed that bonus 3 times apparently, only getting 950,000 or so.......

 

And mice too.....one of Larry Goddard's books tells of chaotic scenes at Delph station once when mice that had been bred for use in labs got out and ran amok until rounded up again.......

 

[simontaylor484]

Newton chambers were based in Chapeltown sheffield part of the group that produced izal and the Ronseal range. I do believe they had some connection with the steel industry as well in the past

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[John Isherwood]

1 minute ago, simontaylor484 said:

Newton chambers were based in Chapeltown sheffield part of the group that produced izal and the Ronseal range 

 

...... and the enclosed double-deck car carriers used on the ANGLO-SCOTTISH CAR CARRIER service.

 

John Isherwood.

[Fat Controller]

21 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

Newton chambers were based in Chapeltown sheffield part of the group that produced izal and the Ronseal range. I do believe they had some connection with the steel industry as well in the past

They certainly owned collieries and coke-ovens; hence the wood preservative, disinfectant etc.

 

[simontaylor484]

I believe that the coke byproduct was used to fuel various steel works furnaces in Sheffield 

[62613]

1 hour ago, S&DWatty said:

That looks to be Albion Farm in the background too with the chicken sheds.  Egg production locally was popular.  One of my neighbours was involved and said there was a bonus for producing 1 million eggs per year.  He missed that bonus 3 times apparently, only getting 950,000 or so.......

 

And mice too.....one of Larry Goddard's books tells of chaotic scenes at Delph station once when mice that had been bred for use in labs got out and ran amok until rounded up again.......

 

 

The photo came from the "Memories of Saddleworth" group on Faceache.

 

[45568]

Here they are...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGR_X_class

A very unusual loco., A relative of the CIE 'A' class, and a precursor of the much-loved??? Co-Bo.

Cheers from West Oz,

Peter C.