Roger Griffiths and John Hooper consider the post-1923 allocations for the LNER engine sheds of the Scunthorpe area, seeing the story through to the end of Frodingham’s BR steam allocation on 26 February 1966.
Having already considered the location, infrastructure and evolution of the main line engine sheds created to serve the Frodingham and Scunthorpe area, as well as all locomotive outstations – Steam Days, June 2023 – and then offered an overview of the traffic flows and with it coverage of many visiting engines within a collection of ‘seen on shed’ logs – Steam Days, July 2023 – this concluding part of our Keadby and Frodingham trilogy considers the home fleet post-1923. The cut-off is not only the end of the BR steam allocation to the area but also the replacement of the LNER-built steam shed in favour of a purpose-built diesel facility, and so some diesels that were first allocated to the smaller purpose-built facility at the steam shed are listed too, but not the long-standing diesel allocation of the subsequent traction maintenance depot, which lasted until 1991. The site still sees some rail use, albeit even that building was lost circa 2004.
Without trying to retread too much ground, while in need of a recap, 1859 saw Keadby reached by rail from the Doncaster direction and a single-road engine shed established there continued to be used even beyond that site being bypassed by the extension of the main line through Frodingham and Scunthorpe and onward to Barnetby, a multiple junction. That event occurred in 1866 and remarkably even at the Grouping the
