Locomotives that died in captivity
By: Web Editor
THANK you for the two-part ‘Death in Captivity’ feature (Oct and Dec).
With reference to engines stored in Fratton roundhouse, I enclose a photograph of another – L1 No. 31757 (pictured right). It was present on August 31, 1962 with No. 30777 Sir Lamiel.
I asked a passing railwayman if he knew why they were there and he said that they were “both for preservation”.
Withdrawn in December 1961, No. 31757 was finally cut up at Eastleigh in March 1963, by which time it had become the last surviving Maunsell L1. It is difficult to imagine that it had not been put aside for preservation, so it probably qualifies for consideration in your survey.
PETER GROOM,
Broxbourne, Herts
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