Saturday Afternoon at Enfield – LO32
In the late 60s there were always interesting steam locos appearing at the coaling stage and Enfield on a Saturday afternoon. Perhaps the most interesting that I captured there on film was this one:
5114 is just a common garden-variety 50 class but the tender – LO32 – was a specially designed tender for use in shunting marhalling yards. If fact it spent most of its time attached to various locos shunting at Clyde Reclamation Yard.
Catching it in the yards at Clyde was quite difficult but every Saturday afternoon it would return to Enfield and spend the weekend tucked up in one of the roundhouses.
Here is another shot of 5114 attacking the grade up to the ashing pit. You’ll see just how steep that grade really was.
And here is the last shot in the series . It will show you where the ash pit was in relation to the coal stage.
