Leicester Thumper Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Hi all, do we have a list or something of engines which were written off from accidental damage rather than just plain scrapped? I am particularly interested in the pre tops and corporate blue eras. I know there was one written due to an accident down south which i wrote an article about, forgot the name of the accident too!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffles Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 I can get you started with D1671 (the original THOR) which only lasted a little while. I'll have a dig around for some others. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted June 13, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2011 There is a graph available on Class47.co.uk that shows Class 47s scrapped by year. If you hover over the purple graph bars, the cursor information shows you which locos were scrapped during that year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I know there was one written due to an accident down south which i wrote an article about, forgot the name of the accident too!!! Good lad. That's no doubt 1562 that Stratford in their infinite wisdom decided to uprate. The circumstances surrounding the 'experiment' perpetrated on the Brush are shrouded in myth and conspiracy, but suffice to say she exploded at Haughley Jct blowing the engine room door off its hinges and breaking the arm of driver Harry Hendry. This has become something of a high altar bit of 47 folklore, as photos of her following the accident are scarce to say the least. Needless to say she was cut up amid supposed secrecy. It was discussed in some detail on here earlier this year. Then wasn't 1908 written off at Monmore Green, Wolverhampton? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plarailfan Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Here's a link to 1562, at Crewe. Quite a mess, http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefancabaniuk/3576215983/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Oh, best photo of her by far! Great spot! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted June 13, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2011 D1734 was only 8 months old when it demolished Coton Hill Signal Box in 1965. It was cut up about 3 months later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slilley Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Good lad. That's no doubt 1562 that Stratford in their infinite wisdom decided to uprate. The circumstances surrounding the 'experiment' perpetrated on the Brush are shrouded in myth and conspiracy, but suffice to say she exploded at Haughley Jct blowing the engine room door off its hinges and breaking the arm of driver Harry Hendry. This has become something of a high altar bit of 47 folklore, as photos of her following the accident are scarce to say the least. Needless to say she was cut up amid supposed secrecy. It was discussed in some detail on here earlier this year. Then wasn't 1908 written off at Monmore Green, Wolverhampton? 1908 was written off at Monmore Green, however parts from her were used in the conversion of Class 48 D1702 to Class 47 specification in 1969. D1702 which became 47114 was the last of the former Class 48s to be withdrawn almost certainly because alone it was converted to the all parallel wiring of traction motors rather than the series-parallel of the other 4. As for 1562 the damage was immense, nearly a six figure sum at 1971 prices. Regards Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffles Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Not necessarily write-offs but here is some prang gen: Clickety Link Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Thumper Posted June 24, 2011 Author Share Posted June 24, 2011 there was the one involving the only class 37 not to make TOPS. i think that was D6983 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Thumper Posted June 24, 2011 Author Share Posted June 24, 2011 there have been some really stupid accidents though. particularly ones where a 47 failed, they send another engine to assist and then that engine runs into the back or the front of the train it went to assist... what the hell.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slilley Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 there was the one involving the only class 37 not to make TOPS. i think that was D6983 It met its end in the accident that claimed D1671 Thor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gridwatcher Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 One thing to be sure is that several railwaymen died in crashes in 47s as there was nothing to protect them. Structural strong point being behind the drivers seat line. Sad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Endacott Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 A total of 512 were built and for many years (most of the 1970s?) the number in traffic was 508. This accounts for the four early withdrawals which have been described above. Geoff Endacott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bigbee Line Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 (edited) Some images of written off 47's 47288 Derailed Maidstone East 47222 Collision with shunt at Wembley 47378 Burnt out on a Longbridge - Swindon service Enjoy, Ernie Puddick Edited March 19, 2014 by The Bigbee Line Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 It met its end in the accident that claimed D1671 Thor. IIRC, it was just east of Bridgend on the SWML. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave47549 Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 (edited) . Edited October 1, 2021 by Dave47549 Removed pointless guff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Interesting read ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 47202 was involved in a collision with 33032 at Frome early in 1987. Prior to cutting up, the loco was stored at Bath Road with its number painted out. I only managed this photograph. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slilley Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 The first TOPS no withdrawal was 47208 which was an accident damage write off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted August 21, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 21, 2013 http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Monmore1969.pdf Off-topic, but the EMU driver at Monmore Green was Driver W A West of Coventry. At the Stechford crash two years earlier Driver West was at the controls of a Down EMU standing in the station when the accident happened, the derailed train stopping about 50 yards in front of him. Whilst checking some details of the Stechford accident I found a press cutting of an earlier accident where a DMU was hit there by a Holyhead-London freight. The name of the DMU driver was given as W West. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 The first TOPS no withdrawal was 47208 which was an accident damage write off. Wasn't that the one in Scotland where there are still a few mysteries surrounding why the loco was travelling so fast? The biggest urban myth (or is it true?) about that accident was at least one of the carriages ended up over the sea wall and on the rocks. (The story goes:- Rescuers managed to free all but one of the trapped victims before the tide came in, but this poor soul was jammed under the wreckage so they handed him a gun in order to save him from a slow drowning). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the penguin of doom Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Wasn't that the one in Scotland where there are still a few mysteries surrounding why the loco was travelling so fast? The biggest urban myth (or is it true?) about that accident was at least one of the carriages ended up over the sea wall and on the rocks. (The story goes:- Rescuers managed to free all but one of the trapped victims before the tide came in, but this poor soul was jammed under the wreckage so they handed him a gun in order to save him from a slow drowning). I think that one involved a failed class 25 in the section ahead. The 47 and train inexplicably passed the section signal at danger and then a collision was inevitable. At the enquiry there was apparently some suggestion that the signal concerned was not quite at a horizontal angle having been returned to danger once the 25 and its train had passed. Another 47 crash IIRC involved an excursion, (possibly from Margate?), where the driver consumed alcohol prior to driving and took a corner too fast resulting in a serious derailment. Again, I'm being a bit vague as it's a long time since I read the reports. Cheers. Sean. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave47549 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 (edited) . Edited October 1, 2021 by Dave47549 Removed pointless guff 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the penguin of doom Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Those were the ones I was thinking of Dave. Thanks. Sean. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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