The twenty year one month career of D7545/25195 included allocations to many London Midland Region depots with a predominance to the north-west.
Built: BR Derby Locomotive Works.
Boiler room grilles sheeted over (1978).
Jointly 25119, 25195 & 25302 were the 4th longest surviving vacuum braked Class 25s (exceeded only by 25042, 25080 & 25224).
Final exhaust roof panel: raised, square.
Time between last Classified repair and withdrawal: 80 months.
Time between withdrawal & scrapping: 18 months.
Allocations
D7545 was new to the Nottingham Division on May 8th 1965. Further transfers were:
May 1968 to Longsight (9A).
June 1968 to Manchester Division (D09).
January 1969 to Preston Division (D10).
July 1970 to Manchester Division (D09).
November 1970 to Liverpool Division (D08).
July 1971 to Manchester Division (D09).
May 1973 to Kingmoor.
August 1973 to Springs Branch.
June 1974 to Longsight.
May 1978 to Crewe.
May 1980 to Springs Branch.
October 1982 to Crewe.
Withdrawn June 14th 1985.
Renumbered February 27th 1974.
25195 was the 248th Class 25 to be withdrawn, one of seven retired during June 1985.
After withdrawal 25195 was stored at Toton until March 3rd 1986 when it was moved (see details below) to Doncaster Works. On August 15th 1986 it was moved to Goole Docks for temporary storage. After being sold to Vic Berry, Leicester it remained at Goole Docks until October 29th 1986 when it was moved to Leicester Humberstone Road and into Vic Berry's yard the next day. 25195 was broken up during December 1986 although the cabs lingered until at least November 1987.
25078, 25195, 25257/287 9Z34 Toton – Doncaster Works, March 3rd 1986
25060/78, 25195, 25257/287 Doncaster Works – Goole Docks, August 15th 1986
25060/78, 25195, 25257 Goole – Tinsley - Vic Berry Leicester, October 29th-30th, 1986
Works Visits
Works visits (records incomplete).
Noted Crewe Works November 1968.
Noted Derby Works November 1973.
Noted Derby Works September 1978 (Classified repair, boiler room grilles sheeted over).
Highlights
1965
On May 23rd almost brand new D7545 was noted at Sheffield Midland with the three coach 2M92 5.18pm service to Manchester Central(?).
On June 19th almost new D7545 was light engine at Derby station.
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, D7598, D7602, D7566, D7567, D7576, D7588, D7599, D7600, D7601
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 the early afternoon of February 12th D7545 was noted at Kettering.
On Sunday September 18th stabled at Kirkby-in-Ashfield were D5292, D7523, D7533, D7536, D7545, D7559 & D7562.
On the afternoon of October 15th D5295 was shunting at Willington Power Station sidings.
1967
On the afternoon of May 1st D7545 was stabled at Derby.
On the morning of May 8th D7545 was at Egginton Junction with an up freight.
1969
1972
The 20.33 Carlisle - Perth on July 22nd was worked by 7545.
1973
At lunchtime on June 10th 7545 was on empty coaching stock duty at Moor Street (Birmingham) - to service the Moor Street - Stratford on Avon steam special with 4771?
7545 was the Manchester Victoria banker (T42) on October 18th & 19th.
25195 was noted at Manchester Victoria on December 21st.
1975
25195 was noted at Manchester Victoria on the morning of January 17th and also on 26th.
At about 7am on June 5th 25195 was noted at Salford on a down freight. On June 7th 25195 & 25148 worked the 09.20 Manchester Piccadilly - Yarmouth to Lincoln Central returning with the 09.30 Yarmouth - Manchester Piccadilly. The next day (7th) 25195 worked the 22.05 York - Manchester Victoria.
25195 was the Manchester Victoria banker (T42) on July 15th.
On August 9th the 14.00 Penzance - Birmingham New Street was worked throughout (?) by 25195 & 25137. Later that day the 23.55 Liverpool - Penzance was noted west of Truro behind 25195 & 25137, having possibly worked from Birmingham New Street. On August 26th 25195 worked the 04.45 Liverpool Lime Street - Manchester Victoria vans.
1976
The 09.20 Manchester Piccadilly - Yarmouth on June 12th was worked by 25195 & 25182 to Lincoln Central, the return working was handled by 31176 after the Class 25s were failed. No passenger workings have so far been noted for 1977.
On the morning of July 25th 25195 was noted at Healey Mills depot.
On August 10th 25195 was noted westbound at Peak Forest with loaded ICI limestone wagons.
1977
On March 20th 25195 was receiving attention at Reddish.
On June 25th 25195 was the Manchester Victoria banker.
On August 15th 25195 was northbound at Preston with a short freight.
On September 19th 25195 was stabled at Northwich.
1978
On May 8th 25195 was noted passing Newton Heath with a hopper train.
On June 3rd the 09.19 Manchester Piccadilly - Yarmouth was worked by 25195 & 25136 to Lincoln Central returning with the 09.15 Yarmouth - Manchester Piccadilly. On June 17th 25195 worked the 07.30 Nottingham - Llandudno Town forward from Derby.
On the morning of November 9th & 12th 25199 was stabled at York.
1978
On May 27th the 09.20 Manchester Piccadilly - Yarmouth was worked to Lincoln Central by 25199 & 25027, returning with the 09.15 Yarmouth - Manchester Piccadilly.
On September 1st 25195 made a test run from Derby Works.
The snag sheet for September 1st recorded:
| 25195; September 1st 1978; 3F01 Nottingham | |||||
| Load | Speed | Amps | Volts | Notes | Other |
| 1 | 28 | 900 | - | - | - | 2 | 36 | 910 | - | - | - | 3 | 42 | 920 | - | - | - | 4 | 49.5 | 930 | - | - | - | 5 | 57 | 1,000 | - | - | - | 6 | 63 | 1,010 | - | - | - |
No.1 cab driver's side window unserviceable
AWS failed No.1 end, to seal
Bogie to paint
Unequal brake pressure issue
High water temperature
Engine to paint?
25195 & 25161 came to the assistance of the thirteen coach 'The Marches Venturer' steam railtour on October 7th when ex-GWR King No.6000 failed with a hot box, the Class 25s working forward from Shrewsbury to Chester and on a later leg down to Hereford having replaced 7029 (see image below).
On November 10th 25195 & 24082 were noted at Basford Hall Junction with a loaded coal train 'ex-Madeley'?
1979
On April 6th 25195 was eastbound at Manchester Victoria with parcels stock.
On June 3rd 25195 was stabled at Chester.
On June 17th 25195 & 25280 worked the 08.45 Birmingham New Street - Barmouth and the 17.45 Barmouth - Euston to Wolverhampton. On the evening of June 22nd 25195 was noted at Crewe with a down freight.
On August 15th 25195 worked the 11.30 Cardiff - Crewe.
On August 25th 25159 & 25274 worked the 10.10 Euston - Aberystwyth from Birmingham New Street, returning with the 16.10 Aberystwyth - Shrewsbury.
1980
On the morning of April 14th 25195 was north of York with a trip freight.
On May 21st 25195 was noted at Earlestown hauling D1062 sandwiched between two brakevans presumably en-route to the Rainhill festivities??
On September 24th 25195 was noted eastbound at Chinley with empty ICI limestone hoppers.
On November 10th 25195 was noted passing Abbotswood with withdrawn 08165 and a brakevan in tow, presumably enroute to Swindon.
1981
On April 1st 25195 hauled 40110/116 from Springs Branch to Gloucester, picking up 40032 in the Manchester area and destined for Swindon Works.
On May 7th 25186, 25152 & 25195 were light engines at Leicester station.
On May 9th 25276 & 25195 were noted at Cockshute depot.
On June 10th 25195 was at Wakefield Kirkgate with a lengthy freight.
On July 17th the 1E82 18.15 Birmingham New Street - Norwich was booked for 31418 which was failed before departure, 25195 took over and was noted still on the train east of Peterborough. On July 29th 25195 was stabled at Edge Hill.
On the morning of August 4th 25195 was noted at Salford with a permanent way train of granite.
During August 25195 received an 'E' examination at Reddish.
At 04.55am on August 29th 25195 arrived at Holbeck off the E27 turn.
On the morning of September 1st 25195 ran light engine from Holbeck to Leeds PCD, then worked the 4M38 at least to Sheffield.
25195 was noted at St Neots on the morning of September 29th working a trip freight.
1982
On February 2nd 25027 & 25195 hauled 507009 from Hall Road to Tyseley (for wheel turning?)
On the afternoon of April 26th 25195 & 25313 were noted at Cricklewood.
On May 16th 25195 was noted at Cockshute depot. 25195 was in charge of a rake of empty ICI hoppers on the Northwich - Tunstead route on May 27th.
On July 27th 25195 worked the 07.09 Bangor - Manchester Victoria, the 10.45 Manchester Victoria - Holyhead and the 15.17 Holyhead - Manchester Victoria.
On August 30th the return leg of a mystery excursion from Llandudno Town saw 47236 failed on departure at Skegness, 25195 & 25193 dragged everything to Derby. The next day (31st) 25195 worked the relief 15.10 Crewe - Llandudno Town.
On September 16th 25195 was noted at Chester with a freight (loaded steel?) train. On September 28th the failure of 45150 on the 15.10 St. Pancras - Nottingham at Wellingborough saw 25195 drag everything to Nottingham. The next day (29th) the 15.12 Manchester Piccadilly - Grantham was worked by 25195 and terminated at Grantham because of a rail strike in Anglia.
On October 3rd 25195 was stabled at Toton.
1983
On a wet February 7th 25195 was noted eastbound through Manchester Victoria was a lengthy train of hoppers.
On March 12th 25195 was stabled at Skipton.
On April 7th 25195 was noted southbound at Garsdale with a short permanent way train. 25195 was on coal duty in the Manchester area on April 16th, with one wagon delivering bagged coal to the signalboxes in the Miles Platting area.
25195 was stabled at Crewe depot on May 2nd. 25195 was noted at Cwmbran working the 4V20 15.10 Manchester Piccadilly - Bristol Temple Meads parcels on May 3rd. On May 18th 25195 was noted southbound at Crewe with a freight. 25195 was stabled at Bescot on May 31st.
Engineering work on June 13th saw the 21.35 Bristol Temple Meads - Edinburgh dragged between Crewe & Preston by 25195 & 25185, and then doing the same southbound for the 23.06 Edinburgh - Bristol Temple Meads.
On July 13th 25195 worked the 18.38 Blackpool North - Birmingham New Street to Preston. On July 15th 25195 was northbound at Warrington Bank Quay with two weltrols and about twenty loaded coke wagons. On July 19th 25195 was noted at Deepdale, Preston with a train of coke wagons. On the evening of July 26th 25195 was noted at Worcester with a Leeds - Plymouth parcels train.
On August 13th 25195 was stabled at Crewe Diesel depot.
On September 5th 25195 was noted passing Llanwern with empty hoppers. On September 6th 25195 was noted at Crewe station with empty coaching stock?
Track alterations at Ilkley saw a ballast special worked by 25195 & 25306 on October 9th. The next day (10th) 25195 was noted working a Walton Junction to Healey Mills freight.
On November 22nd 1983 25195 worked the 06.45 Derby - Leicester and the 07.48 Leicester - Leeds to Nottingham.
1984
A diesel multiple unit failure on February 2nd 1984 saw 25195 assist the 09.44 Manchester Victoria - Liverpool forward from Eccles.
A diesel multiple unit failure on April 27th saw 25195 assist the 18.20 Liverpool - Preston from St. Helens Shaw Street (also reported as from Wigan).
On May 2nd 25195 was noted at Edge Hill with a short engineers train. 25195 was noted passing Cwmbran with a block train of anhydrous ammonia (ten tankers plus two barrier vehicles and brake van) for Avonmouth on May 11th. On May 27th 25195 & 25191 were stabled at Llandudno Junction.
June 4th 1984 saw 25195 work the 20.15 Manchester Piccadilly - Cleethorpes as far as Sheffield, returning with the 22.33 Sheffield - Manchester Piccadilly. Five days later on June 9th 1984 the 10.10 Euston - Shrewsbury was worked forward from Wolverhampton by 25195 & 25037. On June 20th 25195 & 25200 were at Leekbrook Junction with empty hoppers. On June 27th 25195 was noted at Llandudno Junction.
On July 3rd (?) 25195 & 25042 worked the 8F21 12.40 BIS Oakamoor - Wigan Springs Branch Junction Sidings sand train with portions for the United Glass Works, St.Helens, then to Wigan for the Co-op Glass Works. Two days later (5th) 25195 & 25042 were shunting empty HJV mineral wagons at Longport. On July 19th 25195 worked the 18.34 3H01 Bolton - Manchester Mayfield parcels. On July 22nd 25195 was stabled at Newton Heath.
The last day of August 1984 saw the 12.30 Birmingham New Street - Peterborough fail at Leicester behind 31152, 25195 took the train forward to Peterborough, returning with the 17.20 Peterborough - Birmingham New Street. Finally for 1984 a Southport - Manchester Victoria was worked on September 12th.
25195 was stabled at Buxton on October 27th.
On November 16th 25195 was at Crewe station with several guards vans.
On November 17th 25195 worked the afternoon Manchester – Bristol parcels.
25195 was stabled at Severn Tunnel Junction on December 16th.
1985
The 12.05 Bedford - Bletchley was worked by 25195 on January 5th 1985. Three days later on a snowy January 8th 25195 was stabled at Cricklewood. On January 19th 1985 the 12.10 Liverpool - Plymouth failed at Norton Bridge behind 47535, 25195 & 25224 took over but 25224 was failed and removed at Stafford leaving 25195 to soldier on alone to Birmingham New Street.
25195 was stabled at Nuneaton on a snowy February 11th.
On March 17th 25195 was northbound at Lancaster with a short freight. On March 18th the 18.21 Barrow - Liverpool failed at Ulverston behind 47529, 25195 dragged everything to Carnforth where 47060 took over. A diesel multiple unit failure the next day (19th) saw 25195 work the 18.32 Ormskirk - Preston.
Another short rescue job took place on April 3rd when the 14.25 York - Plymouth failed at Washwood Heath behind 50026, the train was worked forward to Birmingham New Street by 25195. On the afternoon of April 9th 25195 was noted at Leeds.
The final recorded working took place on May 25th with 25195 & 25313 working the 13.40 Aberystwyth - Wolverhampton from Shrewsbury.
25195 was noted passing light engine through Crewe station with 25089 & 25230 on June 1st.
On June 7th 25195 was noted passing Prestatyn with a lengthy empty ballast train.
25195 was withdrawn on June 14th 1985.
Not all known passenger workings are recorded on this page.
Number panels saved whilst being scrapped at Vic Berry, Leicester.
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Last updated August 3rd 2024.
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