I went to see the christening and name plate unvailing at the Midland station but I never saw the train again.

An old guy who is into model trains has made an exact replica of this loco, it's in oo guage and was featured in a copy of Railway Modeller, all I know about him is he went under the title of P.D.Smith, and lives in Sheffield.
He had even had made the nameplate in stainless steel like the original.

I don't remember a steam engine but I'm sure I once saw an name plate on a inter city 125 that said 'City of Sheffield'.

Everybody nowadays regards steam power as a thing of the past.. far from it "almost all the Power stations in the world" are run using steam turbines to produce electricity, the method of fuel is just different, be it gas, coal, oil, or nuclear. These power stations have a boiler to produce steam..the steam drives the turbine and the turbine/ engine drives the dynamo/generator....There are exeptions tho' eg: wind power and Tide power and hydro electric and even solar power..but the method of using steam is still the most favoured...all Nuclear submarines are run on steam powered engines fueled by Nuclear reactors..so the next time you look at an old steam engine, just remember we can't do without it "yet"

'I'll probably get taken to task for this, but wasn't the'City of Sheffield' a 6P, in green livery? I'm not a 'railway nut' in the purest sense, but I did work on the railway at one time and I've always took an interest. Anybody know what its home shed was? Millhouses perhaps? The only named passenger engine I remember clearly was ' Sir Cloudsley Shovel'.

There is another post on the City of Sheffield loc, the original loco was launched in 1943, it was an unstreamlined loco of the "Coronation Scot" type, it was originaly ordered as a streamlined engine, but as it was wartime, it was decided the steal used for the streamlining could not be justified. Special stainless steel nameplates were presented by Firth Vickers at a ceremony at Midland Station, although the engine was not preserved, the name plates were, and are now in the Cutlers Hall.

"City of Sheffield" was built at Crewe Works of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway to the design of Sir William A. Stanier and released to traffic in April 1944. She was numbered 6249 by the LMS becoming 46249 in BR fleet. She had the Power Classification of 8P (not 6P as suggested by "Texas".

In BR days (1948-1963) she operated from London Camden until 1954, then from Crewe North and finally from Glasgow Polmadie depots. Her main traffic being express passenger services on the West Coast main Line. Although named "City of Sheffield" she only visited the city once, during her naming ceremony. She most certainly was never allocated to Millhouses depot as suggested.

She was withdrawn from service in November 1963 and cut up at her birthplace in December 1963

"City of Sheffield" was built at Crewe Works of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway to the design of Sir William A. Stanier and released to traffic in April 1944. She was numbered 6249 by the LMS becoming 46249 in BR fleet. She had the Power Classification of 8P (not 6P as suggested by "Texas".

In BR days (1948-1963) she operated from London Camden until 1954, then from Crewe North and finally from Glasgow Polmadie depots. Her main traffic being express passenger services on the West Coast main Line. Although named "City of Sheffield" she only visited the city once, during her naming ceremony. She most certainly was never allocated to Millhouses depot as suggested.

She was withdrawn from service in November 1963 and cut up at her birthplace in December 1963


The City of Sheffield was not allocated to Millhouses sheds (18b, I believe)
However, I saw the loco there minus its plates before the ceremony at the Midland station.

I'm sure many enthusiasts would love to see a photo of this loco.

Has anyone got one to show us.

Happy Days!

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crookes

Thankds for the link, you're a star!

Happy Days!

You're welcome, I just wish I had seen it for real. I was born in '42 so I had the chance.

I was born in 1942 and never saw it either. Just checked in my Ian Allen spotters book 1958. Went to Crewe a few times but it was always somewhere else on that particular day.

I saw it at the naming ceremony. It moved very slow and the track creaked as it passed into the Midland station. It was all black and shiny. Never saw it again.

...He had even had made the nameplate in stainless steel like the original.

I had a go at making a full-sized nameplate. A 47 was parked up in Sheffield Midland and I measured the length of it's nameplate in pocket books and-a-bit. I took a photograph of the plate full-on and later put the neg in a slide projector. I stuck a large piece of paper on the wall with the width of the nameplate clearly marked. I projected the image and moved the projector back and forth until the plate fitted in between the marks and then pencilled in the lettering and other dimesions.

The materials were a large sheet of multi-ply and two tins of Humbrol paint, some sandpaper and a tin of impact adhesive. The plate and lettering I cut out with a B&D bandsaw and the in-between bits, with a fretsaw. I painted the background roughly, as they sometimes are, to make the lettering look more like the real thing.

The end result: -
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/escafeld01/1066b.jpg

Dave

There is something about the old steam engines that gives the impression of great power isnt there?
Even though modern traction engines are far more powerful, they do not have the same raw power look to them