HRGR – Locos

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The HRGR route was operated by GWR

Early years and Pre-Grouping

Big 4

  • Bulldogs
  • Dukes
  • Dean Goods
  • Metro / 517 tanks
  • Panniers & Saddle Tanks
  • MSWJR locos
  • 43xx
  • Manors, Granges and Halls rare

Nationalisation /. Early

  • 2349 Dean Goods
  • BulldogS: 3451 Skylark, Seagull, Pelican,

1960s: wind down to Closure

  • 14xx Autotanks: 1445 Monmouth Auto. These would be unlikely to have worked service trains, but would have travelled light / ECS between Hereford 85C and Ross sub-sheds
  • 16xx Hawksworth Pannier: 1625 Barton Goods
  • 2251 Collett Goods: 2242 last day of service / 2253
  • 3728 / 3616 57xx demolition train / 3638 1960 Inspection Saloon
  • 4107 last day of service / 4115 (Dinedor cutting) / 4131 (Sreangford) 4135 / 4157 (Strangford) 6137 (Fawley)
  • 4358 / 6304 (Sink Green goods) / 6345 / 6381 (Dinedor Tunnel) / 7318 (Ballingham last day) / 7320 (grain silos)
  • 5952 Cogan Hall – Hfd station pilot
  • 6959 Hawksworth Modified Halls: 6985 Parwick Hall (photographed Rotherwas, 1963); 6993 Acton Burrell Hall (Ballingham Viaduct, last day services); 6994 Arthog Hall (Backney); 7914 Little Wyrley Hall;
  • 6439, 6412 Monmouth Auto – worked last train to Monmouth and Wye Valley line
  • 6872 Crawley Grange, Leaton Grange, Hurst Grange
  • 7814 Fringford Manor (Ballingham Viaduct 31 Oct 1964) / 7812 erlestoke manor (Backney Oct 1964) / 7815 Fritwell Manor (7 Oct 1964, week before withdrawal) / 7801 Anthony Manor; 7811 Dudley Manor (Dinedor Tunnel)
  • 8787 (Ross, 1960)
  • 4MT 4-6-0 no 75053 Backney Bank Oct 1964
  • 2MT 2-6-0 no 78004, worked final freights to Lydbrook Junction 1965
  • 80102 / 80135
  • Warships – many photographed in Hereford, some diverted via HRGR – which ones?
  • Hymek D7040 (Hfd) / D7051 (Ballingham)
  • 37 D6901 Rotherwas
  • Fowler 0-4-0D mech shunter

Eye-raising visitors!

  • 3440 City of Truro – worked 1958 RCTS Daffodil Express double headed with mogul no 4358
  • 3828 (+ 6909 Frewin Hall) Diversion Ballingham 12 July 1960 / 3841 Rotherwas Hot Box
  • 5042 Winchester Castle, 7022 Hereford Castle; light engine between Hfd and Glos sheds, regular station pilots summer 1962-3
  • 45491 (Ross)
  • 45699 Galatea
  • 4F Rotherwas MOD 1964
  • 70052 Firth of Tay
  • 73031 / 73097 Ballingham & Fawley May 1964

LAST DAY OF SERVICE, 31 Oct 1964

  1. 4107 Hereford – thought to have worked the last train, many images en route
  2. 7310 / 7318 (Ballingham & Backney Viaducts, Hfd)
  3. 2242 (Barr’s Court)
  4. 6991 Acton Burnell Hall (Ballingham Viaduct)
  5. 7814 Fringford Manor (Ballingham Viaduct and Backney Halt)
  6. 80135 (pictured at Glos)
  7. 3841 (pictured at Rotherwas Junction, had been ‘parked up’ on HRGR siding following hotbox in June 1964)
  8. 3616 (this Glos based 57xx worked the Demolition trains, photographed at Ballingham June 1965)