What railways did the Horwich Works in the Flimsies piece below belong to? Were new engines built there or just repaired? What kind of engines? Also, note the readers comments at the bottom of the newspiece.

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/display. ... php#mpubot

Horwich was the main shops of the Lancashire & Yorkshire, which became part of the London-Midland-Scottish Railway in 1923. L&Y 1300, shown below in its later guise of BR 52322, certainly saw the insides of the works (I don't recall if it was built there).

JAC

Thanks. Yes, according to this, it was built there. It would be very interesting to see old and current photos of the Horwich facility.

http://www.heritagerailways.com/rlylocos.html

Preserved UK Railway Locomotives Database
Number 1300 12322 52322
Name
Company LYR
Class 27
Gauge 4ft 8.5in
Wheel Arrangement 0-6-0
Power/Transmission Steam
Builder Horwich
Works No 420
Built In 1896
Date Preserved
Current Condition Operational
Last Overhauled In
Current Location East Lancashire Railway

After Horwich works opened virtually all L & Y locos were built there. These included over 300 of the 0-6-0 type illustrated, a similar number of 2-4-2T "radial" locos for local passenger work, 4-4-0s for passenger work and light and heavy 0-8-0s for coal trains (the L & Y handled a lot of this from Yorkshire pits to Lancashire industry). Better known were 40 inside cylinder Atlantics built 1899-1902 and later the Hughes designed four cylinder 4-6-0s in the early twentieth century.

Horwich continued to build locos for both the LMS and later BR. The last steam loco built there was BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76099 which entered traffic in November 1957.

After this the works built batches of the BR 350hp 0-6-0 shunting loco until (I think) 1962.

Steam locos were overhauled there until 1965, after this work on diesel and electric traction continued until the early eighties.

The foundry was the last section of the works in use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horwich_railway_works

Some 1919 photos:

http://www.ingenious.org.uk/See/Transpo ... by=images&

http://www.ingenious.org.uk/See/Transpo ... by=images&

Third photo down:

http://www.nrm.org.uk/exhibitions/photo/official.asp

0-4-0T there in 1960:

http://www.geoffbannister.com/tod/lmr_steam/51227.jpg

18" works railway:

http://www.steeplegrange.co.uk/locos-zm32.htm
http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/resu ... agepos=219

Fire drill:

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/resu ... imagepos=3

Umpty-leven more old photos - very good:

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/resu ... tive+works