The sixteen year career of D5261/25111 was allocated to London Midland Region depots apart from a two year period when it was allocated to Eastern & Scottish depots.
Built: BR Derby Locomotive Works.
Boiler room grill sheeted over on the BIS side only.
Final exhaust roof panel: raised, 'L' shaped.
Never carried 'Domino' headcode display.
Time between last Classified repair and withdrawal: ?? months.
Time between withdrawal & scrapping: 7 months.
Allocations
D5261 was new to Toton on April 2nd 1964. Further transfers were:
January 1965 to Nottingham Division (D16).
October 1967 to Springs Branch (8F).
May 1968 to Allerton (8J).
June 1968 to Liverpool Division (D08).
May 1973 to Springs Branch.
October 1974 to Tinsley.
July 1975 to Eastfield.
October 1976 to Crewe.
May 1977 to Cricklewood.
October 1977 to Toton.
March 1978 to Cricklewood.
Withdrawn March 30th 1980.
Renumbered March 7th 1974.
25111 was the 27th Class 25 to be withdrawn, leaving 300 in service.
After withdrawal 25111 was moved to Swindon Works on May 5th 1980 and broken up there by the end of October 1980. Prior to breaking up a portion of a cabside was removed for use in the repair of 25218 at Swindon.
Works Visits
Works visits (records incomplete).
Noted Derby Works August 1964.
Noted Crewe Works June 1968.
Noted Derby Works February 1971.
Noted Derby Works February & March 1974 (Classified).
Visited Derby Works sometime between June 1976 & October 1977.
Highlights
1965
The Wellingborough - Goldington CEGB coal trains still remained strongly in the hands of steam power, usually 8F or 9F’s although on August 12th D5261 handled one of the turns.
On Sunday December 5th a visit to several East Midlands area installations produced the following Derby/Sulzer Type 2s:
Derby Works:
D5054, D 5087, D5135
D5166
D5268, D5298
D7562, D7564, D7566, D7567, D7576, D7588, D7598, D7599, D7600, D7601, D7602
Derby shed:
D5011
D5185, D5189, D5198, D5205, D5224, D5230, D5293
D7505, D7521, D7529, D7532, D7538, D7540, D7543, D7548, D7559, D7560, D7569, D7572, D7582, D7591, D7594, D7634
Toton shed:
D5186
D5201, D5228, D5231, D5235, D5237, D5240, D5242, D5256, D5259, D5261, D5265, D5267, D5272, D5280, D5284, D5285, D5287, D5288, D5299
D7504, D7527, D7542, D7544, D7545, D7558, D7561, D7571, D7577, D7579, D7597
Nottingham shed:
D5209, D5270, D5290
D7511, D7533, D7563
Colwich shed
D5195, D7554, D7557
1966
On February 20th Derby shed was hosted to 70 locomotives including 25 steam (all in service) and fourteen Derby Type 2s: D5001 (for Works?), D5097, D5211, D5261, D5270, D7513, D7516, D7547, D7558, D7564, D7568, D7589, D7601 (brand new) & D7633.
On the afternoon of August 6th D7531 & D5261 were down light engines at Toton.
Noted at Nottingham shed on Sunday September 18th were D5208, D5261, D5262, D5282, D7534, D7539, D7540, D7548, D7574, D7593 & D7657.
1967
On the afternoon of May 18th noted at Stenson Junction were D7534 on a down freight and D5261 & D5267 on an up freight.
On the afternoon of May 22nd D5267 & D5261 were northbound at Derby with a freight.
On the morning of May 23rd D5261 was shunting stock for Derby Carriage & Wagon Works.
On the afternoon of July 4th D5261 was stabled at Derby.
On the afternoon of July 5th D5261 was northbound at Derby with a freight (8P99).
On the afternoon of July 6th D5261 was at Uttoxeter with a down parcels (3K09).
On the afternoon of July 10th D5261 was southbound at Derby with a freight (8T29).
On the morning of July 13th D5261, D5273, D7505 & D7585 were stabled at Derby.
On the morning of July 18th D5261 was noted with a down freight at Tutbury (8Z00).
1968
On the afternoon of March 23rd D5261 was southbound at Kingmoor with a train of soda ash.
1971
The passenger miles worked by D5261/25111 were so low that it belongs in the bottom ten of the Class 25 table of passenger workings.
On the early evening of July 13th 5261 was noted passing Manchester Exchange with a down van train.
On August 14th 1971 a roundtrip Liverpool - Ipswich football special (for Everton FC) was believed worked throughout by 5261 & 7656 for a passenger mileage of 502 miles.
1972
At about 7.30am on October 10th 5261 was noted at Olive Mount Junction with an up freight (9T01).
1973
At about 6pm on September 7th 5261 was noted at Manchester Exchange with a down van train (4P05).
On the afternoon of December 14th 5261 was stabled at York.
On December 27th 5261 was light engine at Banbury.
1974
On March 8th 25111 made a test run from Derby Works. Most likely the locomotive was renumbered whilst at Derby Works.
The snag sheet for March 8th recorded:
No.1 end leading, recordings made from No.2 end.
| 25111; March 8th 1974; time 1.45 | |||||
| Load | Speed | Amps | Volts | Notes | Other |
| 1 | 29 | 950 | - | - | - | 2 | 38 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 42 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 49 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 63 | 1,000 | - | - | - | 6 | 71 | - | - | - | - |
B side crankcase door leak
Engine room dirty.
On August 24th 1974 the 09.19 Manchester Piccadilly - Yarmouth to Lincoln Central and the return from there of the Yarmouth - Manchester Piccadilly was handled by 25111 & 25081.
1975
On the morning of February 6th 25111 & 25079 were stabled at York.
On June 9th & 10th 25111 was noted at Exeter stabling point.
On June 13th 25137 & 25111 worked an evening Mossend - Kingmoor freight.
On June 30th 25111 was noted at Wath with a mixed freight (BIS side retains boiler room blanking plate).
On the evening of July 4th 25101 &25111 were northbound at Tyne Yard with a freight.
A Birmingham - Edinburgh service on July 5th was worked forward from Carstairs by 25101 & 25111.
1976
This view and the one above confirm that 25111 received the sheeting over of the boiler room grill to one side only, the BIS side.
1977
A roundtrip Lichfield City - Llandudno Town day excursion on June 6th 1977 was worked by 25111 & 25131.
On October 16th 25111 was stabled at Severn Tunnel Junction.
1978
On the morning of January 28th 25071, 25111 & 25316 were noted at Willesden.
On a snowy February 12th 25111 was noted through Beeston (Notts) with a short engineers train.
On April 30th 25111 was stabled at Marylebone.
On May 19th 25111 & 25117 were noted passing Claydon with a lengthy coal train, presumably bound for Aylesbury Coal Concentration Depot.
25111 was noted at Bletchley on October 7th.
1979
On Wednesday March 14th 25111 worked the 09.55 Willesden to Norwood and the return 12.00 Norwood to Willesden.
On the morning of July 23rd 25111 was noted at Bletchley (with 25112 & 25075).
25111 was noted at Nuneaton on August 4th.
On the afternoon of September 27th 25111 was stabled at York.
1980
On the morning of January 13th 25111 & 25210 were each in charge of overhead wire maintenance trains between Luton & Leagrave.
The continuing shortage of locomotives, partly caused by a backlog of repairs at the main workshops, led to Swindon Works receiving unclassified repairs for locomotive types it had not dealt with before. On March 9th collision damaged 31124 & 31154 were moved from Doncaster to Swindon. Likewise 25191 and 25236 were also received for repairs. During March approximately six hundred locomotives were awaiting attention of which only one third (about 160) were out of traffic for scheduled repair. For the Class 25’s fifty eight were laid up, the Class 31’s had thirty out of traffic, whilst for the Class 47’s one out of every five machines was awaiting some sort of attention. Eight Class 25’s had been out of traffic for at least three months (25035/42, 25113/147/177/191, 25234/252), obviously the aforementioned move of 25191 to Swindon was a start in repairing these bad ordered machines. To provide Swindon with a source of spares 25111/147/252 were withdrawn during March and consigned there (25111 was the first to arrive on May 6th), interestingly two of these machines were in the batch long overdue for repairs.
25111 was withdrawn on March 30th 1980.
Not all known passenger workings are recorded on this page.
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