Hawes Junction engine shed

Hawes Junction engine shed
Location
LocationGarsdale, Cumbria, England
Coordinates54°19′10″N 2°19′47″W / 54.3194°N 2.3298°W / 54.3194; -2.3298
OS gridSD786916
Characteristics
TypeLocomotive
Roads1
Routes servedWensleydale line
History
Opened1879
Closed1939
OriginalMR
Pre-groupingNER
Post-groupingLNER

Hawes Junction engine shed was a small locomotive depot situated to the south of Hawes Junction railway station,[1] (later Garsdale[note 1]) in what is now Cumbria,[note 2] England, between 1879 and 1939. The depot was built by the Midland Railway (MR), but was used between 1881 and 1939 by the North Eastern Railway (NER) and then the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), providing locomotives for the Wensleydale line.

History

The initial proposals for an engine shed detailed accommodation and servicing for 24 locomotives to provide banking assistance to other trains on the gradients of the Settle–Carlisle line.[4] This was later curtailed to half that requirement on account of the high costs involved.[5] Later assessments on the requirements detailed that the company had overspent, and needed to introduce economies.[6] The Settle and Carlisle line opened in 1876, and the Hawes Branch opened in 1878, but the shed did not open until 1879.[7][8] By the time of its opening, the original plan had been amended further so that Hawes junction had "..a small engine shed (designed for stabling a single locomotive)."[9] The Midland Railway had an intention that Hawes Junction would become a swapping point for locomotives, and as such, it was authorised that twenty houses would be built at Hawes Junction to accommodate drivers and their families.[10] The depot was situated to the south of the station and was only accessible from the north; locomotives approaching from the south would need to reverse in.[11] Mapping showing the extant shed, details a single-road facility spanning a stream coming off the nearby hillside which feeds into the River Clough. The shed had two additional sidings on either side, which stopped short of the shed area.[12]

In 1881, the Midland Railway offered to lease the shed to the NER at a rate of £2 per engine, per month, to which the NER agreed and it came into force in June 1881.[13] The NER also paid nine shillings per week to the Midland Railway for the use of three railway cottages to house the locomotive and depot staff.[3] The depot housed the locomotive from the last working of the day on the Wensleydale Line. The locomotive was shedded overnight, and then worked the first service down the valley (eastwards) in the morning.[14] The solitary engine based at Hawes Junction worked two services along the line during the day, with a similar operation starting from Northallerton engine shed in the morning, and also taking two trips down the branch.[15]

In October 1917, a spark from a passing goods train set the engine shed on fire, and it burnt down, but it was rebuilt in 1918.[16][17][18][19] It is unknown if the NER or the MR paid for the shed to be rebuilt, but the locomotive inside the shed on the night of fire suffered some cosmetic damage (the paint coming off and the wooden buffer-beams were burnt).[13] In February 1939, the LNER revised their working timetable for the Wensleydale line, and the last and first trains of the day terminated and started at Leyburn railway station, so the locomotive was stabled overnight at the shed in Leyburn which was re-opened, having been closed in 1915.[20] The 1918 engine shed was demolished sometime between 1939 and 1955, though a dead-end siding ran to the buffer-stops of the old engine shed site.[21][22]

Locomotives

The shed had no allocations, merely being a stabling point overnight for locomotives being used on the Wensleydale Line. North Eastern Railway and London & North Eastern Railway engines used the shed, even though it was a Midland Railway facility, and these included the classes 398, A and G5.[23][13]

Notes

  1. ^ The station opened as Hawes Junction in 1876, and was renamed to Hawes Junction and Garsdale in 1900. It was renamed again to Garsdale in 1932.[2] The NER always referred to the shed as "Hawes Junction".[3]
  2. ^ The modern day location: until 1974, the site was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

References

  1. ^ Pringle, R.E. (1911). "Report on the fatal collision that occurred on the 24th December, 1910, between an express passenger train and two light engines near Hawes Junction on the Midland Railway" (PDF). railwaysarchive.co.uk. p. 39. (The shed is labelled "goods" on the plan in the accident report.)
  2. ^ Gough, John (1989). The Midland Railway : a chronology. Leicester: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 184. ISBN 0-9014-6112-1.
  3. ^ a b Jenkins 2002, p. 51.
  4. ^ Baughan 1987, p. 178.
  5. ^ Goode, C. T. (1980). The Wensleydale Branch. Tisbury: Oakwood Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-85361-265-X.
  6. ^ Mitchell, W. R.; Fox, Peter (1991). Garsdale and Aisgill on the Settle-Carlisle Railway. Giggleswick: Castleberg Publications. p. 26. ISBN 1-871064-50-3.
  7. ^ Burgess, Neil (2011). The Lost Railway's of Yorkshire's North Riding. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 32. ISBN 9781840335552.
  8. ^ Baughan 1987, p. 189.
  9. ^ "SCRCA Note: Locomotive facilities at Garsdale Head | SCRCA". scrca.foscl.org.uk. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  10. ^ Baughan 1987, p. 183.
  11. ^ Gough, John (1989). The Midland Railway : a chronology. Leicester: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 352. ISBN 0-9014-6112-1.
  12. ^ Anderson, V. R.; Fox, G. K. (1986). Stations & structures of the Settle & Carlisle Railway. Poole: Oxford Pub. figure 32. ISBN 0-86093-360-1.
  13. ^ a b c Hoole, K. (1972). North Eastern locomotive sheds. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. p. 180. ISBN 0-7153-5323-3.
  14. ^ Bairstow, Martin (1994). The Leeds, Settle & Carlisle Railway. Halifax: Bairstow. p. 10. ISBN 1-871944-09-0.
  15. ^ Jenkins 2002, p. 55.
  16. ^ Baughan 1987, p. 323.
  17. ^ Anderson, V. R.; Fox, G. K. (1986). Stations & structures of the Settle & Carlisle Railway. Poole: Oxford Pub. plate 78. ISBN 0-86093-360-1.
  18. ^ Griffiths, Roger; Smith, Paul (2000). The directory of British engine sheds and principal locomotive servicing points: 2 North Midlands, Northern England and Scotland. Shepperton: Oxford Publishing Company. p. 288. ISBN 0-86093-548-5.
  19. ^ Goode, C. T. (1980). The Wensleydale Branch. Tisbury: Oakwood Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-85361-265-X.
  20. ^ Addeyman, John F., ed. (2020). North Eastern Railway Engine Sheds. North Eastern Railway Association. pp. 87, 117. ISBN 978-1-911360-26-1.
  21. ^ "SCRCA structure 256470: Garsdale Engine Shed (for Hawes Branch loco) | SCRCA". scrca.foscl.org.uk. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  22. ^ Jenkins 2002, p. 160.
  23. ^ Addeyman, John F, ed. (2020). North Eastern Railway Engine Sheds. North Eastern Railway Association. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-911360-26-1.

Sources

  • Baughan, Peter (1987). The Midland Railway North of Leeds (2 ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-8852-5.
  • Jenkins, Stanley C (2002) [1993]. The Wensleydale Branch; a new history (2 ed.). Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-587-X.
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