The sixteen year four month career of D5258/25108 included allocations to London Midland, Eastern & Scottish Region depots.
Built: BR Derby Locomotive Works.
Final exhaust roof panel: flush.
Time between last Classified repair and withdrawal: 45 months.
Time between withdrawal & scrapping: 5 months.
Allocations
D5258 was new to Toton on March 20th 1964. Further transfers were:
September 1964 to Nottingham (16D).
January 1965 to Nottingham Division (D16).
October 1965 to Leicester Division (D15).
August 1967 to Nottingham Division (D16).
August 1967 to Stoke Division (D05).
May 1968 to Springs Branch (8F).
June 1968 to Liverpool Division (D08).
May 1973 to Springs Branch.
June 1974 to Tinsley.
July 1975 to Eastfield.
Withdrawn July 14th 1980.
Renumbered March 5th 1974.
25108 was the 35th Class 25 withdrawn, one of four retired during July 1980.
After withdrawal 25108 was stored at Glasgow Works with much of the locomotive broken up there by December 1980. Parts of the cab and boiler room panelling & roof remained in use as a shed (?) until cut up during November 1988.
Works Visits
Works visits (records incomplete).
Noted Crewe Works September 1968.
Noted Derby Works September & October 1972.
Noted Glasgow Works September 1976 (full repaint).
Highlights
1964
On Sunday July 5th stabled at Nottingham were: D5193, D5199, D5203, D5224, D5231, D5239, D5258, D5264, D5289, D7568, D7583, D7585, D7590 & D7591.
1965
Observations at Derby on July 3rd during daylight hours revealed amongst other things the 10.28 Newcastle - Bristol was noted an hour late behind D5258.
1966
On the morning of September 4th D5258 was stabled at Wellingborough.
On the morning of October 28th D5258 & D5397 were at Wellingborough with a down freight.
On the afternoon of December 31st D5258 was stabled at Wellingborough.
1967
Noted at Derby between about 11am & 2pm on January 19th were:
D5187, D7559 & D7578 on empty coaching stock duties
D7594, D7597 light engines
D5294 & D7567 with an up freight
D5224 & D57 with the eight coach 12.55 Sheffield - St Pancras
D5267 parcels stock
D5258 up freight
D7550 on shed
45407, 47000, 48103, 73011 & 92025 on shed.
Stabled at Derby on the morning of April 18th were D5258, D7524, D7539 & D7550.
On the morning of May 23rd D5258 was the empty coaching stock pilot at Derby.
On the morning of May 27th D5258 was at Derby with the coaching stock for the service to Yarmouth.
On the afternoon of June 6th D5258 was the Derby empty coaching stock pilot.
On the afternoon of October 27th D5258 was light engine at Uttoxeter.
1968
On March 29th D5258 was at Crewe with the 1P39 15.27 Euston - Heysham parcels.
1972
5258 was the Manchester Victoria banker (T43) on May 16th & 17th.
At about 7am on June 2nd 5258 was noted at Ordsall Lane with an up freight.
On October 2nd 5258 made a test run from Derby Works.
The snag sheet for October 2nd recorded:
| 5258; October 2nd 1972; time 1.50 | |||||
| Load | Speed | Amps | Volts | Notes | Other |
| 1 | 31 | 790 | - | - | - | 2 | 39 | 800 | - | - | - | 3 | 46 | 800? | - | - | - | 4 | 52 | 950 | - | - | - | 5 | 65 | 970 | - | - | - | 6 | 72 | 1,000 | - | - | - |
There were no other comments on the snag sheet so presumably the test was successful.
On December 14th the 17.15 Derby - Nottingham was worked by 5258 with hauled stock.
1973
5258 was the Manchester Victoria banker (T43) on April 3rd.
On September 9th whilst on electrification work at Barton (Preston) 5258 derailed in the down loop, luckily falling away from the running lines, retrieval was four days later.
At about 6pm on October 19th 5258 was noted at Manchester Victoria on an up freight (9T44).
At about 5pm(?) on December 4th 5258 was noted at Liverpool Lime Street on a down van train (4F15).
1974
25108 was noted passing Whitchurch on April 20th on a down freight (8X94).
1975
On the afternoon of June 5th 25108 was stabled at York.
On the evening of July 1st 25108 & 25022 were stabled at York.
The roundtrip Nottingham - Llandudno Town on July 5th was worked by 25108, whilst the next day (6th) 25066 & 25108 worked a roundtrip Burton - Yarmouth excursion.
After transfer to Eastfield during July 1975 a number of internal passenger services were worked. 25108 was stabled at Perth on July 14th.
1976
On July 20th 25108 worked the 13.20 Aberdeen - Glasgow (throughout?) arriving about 20 minutes late.
On September 28th 25108 was noted at Perth in ex-works condition.
1977
25108 was noted on Ayr depot on March 13th.
On June 20th a Fort William - Glasgow Queen Street service was worked by 25108.
On June 24th 25010, 25091, 25108, 25144, 25227 & 25234 were noted at Dumfries.
On July 22nd the 22.00 Stranraer Harbour - Euston was worked to Carlisle Kingmoor by 25108 & 25158.
In the early hours of July 28th 25108 was noted at Derby with the 4M38 parcels from Leeds.
On the afternoon of September 3rd noted at Eastfield were 24006, 25023, 25062, 25072, 25075, 25098, 25108, 25235, 25244 & 25247.
On September 5th (?) the 23.45 Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street was worked forward from Perth by 25108.
1978
On June 18th 25108 was stabled at Haymarket.
On July 31st the 12.50 Mallaig - Glasgow Queen Street was worked forward from Fort William by 25108. The next day (August 1st) 25108 was in charge of the 18.18 Glasgow Queen Street - Oban.
1979
The 13.20 Glasgow Queen Street - Oban on August 7th 1979 was worked by 25108. On August 17th 1979 a Perth - Edinburgh was worked by 25108. A short working for 25108 took place on September 21st with 25108 working the 04.20 Mossend Yard - Glasgow Queen Street forward from Cowlairs Junction, being the portion off 1S07 Euston - Inverness.
1980
The WCML near Abington was occupied by the engineers on February 3rd, with six Class 20s in use and one Class 25, 25108 working the wiring train.
On April 6th 25108 was noted at Ayr.
On May 8th 25108 worked the 15.57 Dundee - Glasgow Queen Street.
On May 28th 25108 was noted at Glasgow Queen Street. On May 31st 25108 worked the 08.10 Glasgow Queen Street - Scarborough to Edinburgh. Its final recorded passenger working took place on June 5th with the 12.44 Glasgow Queen Street - Dundee.
25108 was noted at Glasgow Queen Street on May 28th.
25108 was stabled at Millerhill on June 14th.
25108 was noted at Motherwell on July 5th.
25108 was withdrawn July 14th 1980.
Not all known passenger workings are recorded on this page.
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