26006/D5306
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Entered
service 28/11/58
Renumbered 19/12/73
Last
overhaul 12/85 G, HGR
Refurbished 12/85
Withdrawn
06/09/93
Depots
34B
(Hornsey) 28/11/58 (new)
34G
(Finsbury Park) 04/60
64B (Haymarket) 05/60 (loan)
64B
(Haymarket) 06/60 (became HA)
16/05/88 ED (Eastfield)
23/08/92 IS (Inverness)
05/06/93 Stored
Sectors
04/87 FXX
07/87 FEGB
01/89 FEPE
26/07/91 DCHB
30/09/91 DCHA
03/92 RAJE
26/04/93 RAJW
05/06/93 RFJX
06/09/93 Withdrawn
FXX Freight/General
FEGB Coal/Haymarket
FEPE Coal/Haymarket
DCHA ScotRail Departmental Civil Engineer
DCHB ScotRail Departmental Civil Engineer restricted
RAJE Regional Infrastructure 26 IS
RAJW Regional Infrastructure 26 IS
restricted
Notes
OMO
fitted 03/86; air braked, boiler and water tank removed 1966; high-intensity
headlight fitted 03/93
Liveries
Original green;
green plus small yellow warning panel; early
Class 24-style 'wrong' BR blue; BR blue; Railfreight (12/85); Trainload
Coal.
Storage
and disposal
Stored 05/06/93 at Inverness with an expired
air receiver certificate. Withdrawn 06/09/93. Cut
at M C Metals 06/95.
Last
years
23/07/86
26001+26006
0625 Aberdeen to Inverurie and 0730 return.
01/10/88
1B01 0440 Carstairs to Waverley.
09/03/89
1B29 2216 Carstairs to Waverley.
28/03/89
1B29 2216 Carstairs to Waverley.
30/03/89
1B29 2216 Carstairs to Waverley.
Friday 21/07/89
1C62 0705 Waverley to Poole. 47004 was failed at Waverley with a speedo
fault. The train went via the sub (36.5 miles) owing to electrification
work.
Thursday 05/10/89
2O72 1714 Queen Street toWaverley. 47712 had blown up on the 1725 to Aberdeen,
so 2O72's engine, 47402, worked the 1725 and 006 went to Edinburgh...
26006's final service passenger working.
Sunday 18/07/91
26006 manages to derail itself at Beattock while working an engineers'
train. Damage was confined to the brakes and the repair was completed
at Eastfield by 23/08/91.
Tuesday 14/01/92
26003, 26004, 26006, 26007
Hired out at various times in a rotating pair to FEPE (Trainload Coal)
for MGR trains to cover for Class 37 shortages over an eight week period.
Two to three additional SSuX trains ran daily between Longannet and Kincardine
power station in Fife.
26004 and 26007 were the original hired pair, but 004 failed on ballast trip AT52 just before the lease started, and 26003 was sent with 007, arriving Thornton 15/01/92. 003 had just been fitted with new wheelsets. The pair then worked MGRs for several days until 26003 (which had been slow speed defective since 20/06/91) was swapped with 26006. 006 and 007 then worked the 6Z18 MGR shuttle until 27/01/92, when, on arrival at Eastfield for inspection, 26006's slow speed unit was found to be defective as well!
So, 006 and 007 were split and 004 and 007 were teamed up as originally intended…They returned to Thornton on 28/01/92 and worked MGRs until the cessation of the working on 06/03/92.
Tuesday 04/08/92
26006 fails on AN18 1325 Mossend to Partick ballast with low oil pressure.
It limps back to Eastfield and sits there for a month awaiting repair,
being released to traffic on 07/09/92.
Thursday 24/09/92
Maintenance Control at ScotRail House issued a directive that all defective
26s were to be taken out of traffic for inspection by ScotRail's Area
Chemist for asbestos on exhaust manifolds. 006 and 042 were stopped at
Inverness; then 026 and 036 were taken out of service at Perth. Arrangements
were made by Maintenance Control for a further 11 Class 26s to be worked
to Motherwell and Grangemouth TMDs between 30/09 and 05/10/92 for inspections.
A team from M.C. Metals rectified any asbestos problems.
Monday 19/10/92
26006 worked the 6H51 1420 Inverness to Elgin and 6H52 1800 return (six
OTA wagons from Dee Marsh) after the T had failed.
Sunday 25/10/92
26006 runs Inverness to Aberdeen to pick up an InterCity generator van
needing attention.
Sunday
08/11/92
26006+26037
1Z50 and 1Z51; worked from Waverley to Aberdeen; then Inverkeithing to
Waverley. This was a steam excursion, with the kettle from Aberdeen to
Inverkeithing.
006 then spent most of the next week at Inverness undergoing repairs to TMs, an increasingly common problem on such ancient locos long out of works...
Thursday 18/02/93
26006 worked AT53 Polmadie ballast, then WCML standby.
Friday 26/02/93
26006 worked 4D50 1413 Motherwell Wagon Repair depot to Coatbridge FLT.
Wednesday 17/03/93
26007 worked the 5Z76 1615 Perth to Mossend ECS of coaches bound for Shields
Road and tyre turning. 26006 took over for the short trip to Shields Road.
26001 arrived at Inverness for a B exam and the removal for inspection of the main air reservoir tanks (because the locos were now so long out of works). This took three weeks to complete.
26006 also received a B exam and work to cyclinder heads and liners. Headlights were also fitted.
Thursday 01/04/93
26006 was used for ballast trip AT53, reaching Lockerbie working off Carstairs.
Thursday 22/04/93
26006 hauled 08762 from Perth to Blair Atholl, before returning light
to Perth. A T picked the 08 up from Blair Atholl to Inverness.