Allocation at the Aberdare shed (86J and later 88J): Jan 1st 1963

from Mountford, E. R. and Kidner, R. W., The Aberdare Railway, The Oakwood Press

This was the engine shed in Robertstown next to our playing field. Click on the class number in the table below to view the relevant page of the Great Western Archive which has lots of interesting information on these steam locomotives. The engines listed here would have been among the last ones of the steam era to work in the Cynon Valley, and the pictures in the archive may jog your memory if you were interested in engines at the time. I’ve read that the shed was numbered 86J from nationalisation until the end of 1960, but then it was taken over by the Cardiff Division of the Western region (instead of the Newport Division) and renumbered 88J.

Class	Wheels	Engines at Aberdare shed in 1963	Preserved examples
2800	2-8-0	3816, 3839, 3843, 3847, 3850, 3853, 3860, 3866	2861 3822 3850
4300	2-6-0	6361	7325
7200	2-8-2T	7209, 7214, 7234, 7247	7200
4200	2-8-0T	4252, 4257, 4279 5237, 5240, 5249, 5263	4277 5224
5600	0-6-2T	5624, 5633, 5647, 5649, 5680 6605, 6622, 6628, 6651, 6661, 6664, 6673, 6690	5637 5643 6686
5700	0-6-0T	3603, 3627, 3655, 3699 3753 4688 7423 8723 9600, 9607 9731, 9747	5775 9600 9681 3738