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BR Shunting Locomotives - Class 05 / Class 06 / Class 07
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Class 05
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Class 06
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Class 07
Hunslet D2553 at Eastwell Ironstone - an A1 Models brass kit with a homemade gearbox and Mashima motor.
Put together from another of the excellent Judith Edge etched kits, this early type Hunslet
Class 05 number D2556 is pictured in finished condition.
The real D2556 moved north from Ipswich during 1966 and spent a few months on
Merseyside before final withdrawal. D2556’ is seen again as it crosses onto the centre
road of the busy yard.
D2581 is spotted en-route at Hornsey Road Depot, and was also seen at Canada Street during
the 2018 Model Rail Scotland exhibition. This and D2578 are fresh into the Eastwell Fleet,
utilising a modified and weathered Heljan model to give that Scottish touch.
Heljan model of D2578, weathered with a mix of acrylics using brush and spray gun.
Hunslet class 05 at The Brewery.
Hunslet class 05 at The Brewery.
Beginning once again in the second half of the 1960s north of the border, high-cab Hunslet
0-6-0 D2595 has recently moved from Yorkshire. After a brief spell at Haymarket it went
to nearby Leith, until withdrawal came in 1968.
D2595 is pictured again with a BR standard cattle van, a traffic that was also being heavily
cut back as the decade closed. The loco was to find further work with the CEGB at power
stations near Manchester until 1983, when it was bought for preservation. It can now be
found on the Ribble Steam Railway at Preston and often works passenger turns along the line.
Scratchbuilt Barclay Class 06 shunting at The Brewery.
The other side of Canada Road's D2444.
Another scratchbuilt Barclay Class 06 in BR blue livery for Canada Road.
The Barclay 0-4-0 Class 06 was to survive as the sole short wheelbase shunter type in Scotland
after 1968, but in greatly reduced numbers. D2444 is seen with a couple of Blue Spot Insulfish
vans. Fish was another traffic in serious decline on BR by the late sixties. D2444 was a
wanderer between many Scottish sheds during its time, and might have been found at
Inverness, Perth, Dundee, Ayr, or Grangemouth in the livery modelled.
Jumping forward into the mid-1970s, long-time Dunfermline Townhill Barclay 0-4-0 06002
is pictured with a Covhop dry powder wagon.
The final exhibition outing for Canada Street in 2018 took it to Tolworth for the
Hampton Court Model Railway Club show. The visit to Southern Region territory gave
an excuse to run the new Heljan Class 07 ‘D2985’ in an early to mid-1960s Southampton sequence.
D2988 is seen here during a quieter moment on Hornsey Road depot (Heljan model).
D2994 was the last class 07 loco in green livery on the rail network. A Heljan model with
the existing wheels spread out to EM gauge and the flanges reprofiled.
2994 became 07010 under TOPS, and although scratchbuilt back in the 1980s by Pete Johnson,
the recently finished Class 33/0 and Class 73/0 for Canada Street highlighted the need for
some upgrading. Finer handrail knobs were fitted all round, and the running numbers were
re-applied using Fox markings. On the bonnet top an access panel was also remade to the
correct size and shape – the original incorrect one being based on a very limited selection
of photographs within the single reference book available in 1981 when the model was built.
Class 07 - 07010 shunting at Canada Road.
