‘Schools’ resting place mystery
I have just read about the mystery surrounding the identity of the ‘Schools’ 4-4-0s in South Yorkshire (Steam World October 2023). In the summer of 1962 Ashford works had dismantled nine Southern Region engines. Among them were Nos. 30931 and 30922. They were sent north to T.W.Ward at Swinton where they were eventually cut up. The mystery locomotive is No. 30922.
Dave Hamilton, Maldon,Essex
I don’t know if the scrapyard had an official name but it was situated in the old goods yard at Swinton station. As far as I can recall this was the only time there were scrap locomotives there. The ‘Schools’ in the photograph was No. 30922. Other locomotives, apart from
