Lynton and Barnstaple Railway

Lynton and Barnstaple baggage and brake van 

My untiring companion's My wife and daughter

All aboard and ready to go

http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk/

Woody Bay a true delight

A little gem in the North Devon countryside

Statfold the works

Woody Bay

Long lost but now found 

Don't forget pay them a visit at

http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk/

Woody Bay Lynton and Barnstaple railway

Previously unpublished pictures from Woody Bay

Always lovely when you find that which you thought was lost

Do pay them a vist

Above the locomotive 'Stafold' on duty

Visit them at  http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk/

Staniers Mogul LMS 2-6-0

On joining the LMS from Swindon one of Stanier's 

first tasks was to reset the imbalance in Locomotive 

stock. Shortage of the L&Y moguls (Crabs) meant

 a priority was a good powerful good locomotive. The 

answer was a mogul with a Swindon type boiler 

L&Y Crab

The L&Y mogul commonly known as Crabs were a 

significant addition to the MR, LNWR locomotive 

stock in 1923 at grouping. Certainly the midland 

small engine policy had an effect on the overall

stock available for both passenger and 

goods working on the new grouped 

railway

LMS Patriot to Jubilee progression

Typical Midland engines

Midland 0-4-4 tank engine 

The ubiquitous Midland 4F

Midland 2P 4-4-0

Great Eastern Railway and the LNER

The seagoing aspects of the railways 

Commemorating the Battle of Flamborough

The defeat and sinking of John Paul Jones ship Bon Homme Richard

Bradford Foster Sq station and goods warehouse

The original station fronted onto Foster Sq itself top centre of this picture.

Foster Sq having been named after the father of the education bill of 1872

The old station was demolished many years ag and a new station

sited at the School St end bottom rt hand corner of this picture. 

The original sation was a six platform arrangement the new one 

has some four platforms for the modern electric trains operating 

the Air valley route through Shipley east to Leeds and north to

Bingley, Keighley and Skipton.

Foster Sq signal box

Showing the size of the station shortly before closure

Foster Sq station

Another view shortly before closure. It acted as a goods station 

after the closure and demolition of the L&Y goods depot at Bridge

Street next to the old Exchange station. It is worth noting that both

stations were built by preceding members of the LMS, namely the 

Lancashire and Yorkshire (Exchange) and the Midland (Foster Sq)

Bradford Foster Sq station

This was roughly the site of the original Bradford Leeds railway terminus

Named simply Bradford Market St in those days, it was of course a much 

smaller station. The area where it was built was known as Little Bermondsey

Bradford LMS Goods How we rang the changes

The site of the main warehouse is now the Bradford Hilton Hotel

The Offices in the near right of the picture the Queens Public house

Of course aspersions to the Lancs and Yorks successor being the 

Great Northern Railway is of course wholly mistaken as it was 

The LMS which succeeded the L&Y in 1924. To me Bradford 

had always been an LMS town. Our neighbour Leeds hosted 

much of the Great Northern. Yes I know Hammerton St loco 

sheds were GN however Low Moor and Manningham were

 LMS and more particularly MIDLAND

Manningham station and loco sheds

Here Manningham station with the loco sheds to the right.

The coming of diesels made the sheds redundant and is

now a large modern industrial area which includes Frizinghall

Model Railways. So there is still a railway presence of sorts

Bradford Exchange

The area below shows where massive excavations in the 

1850's lead the way for the new Exchange Station. Before

then the railways had to pass through a series of tunnels 

on the approach to the terminus. Always thick with smoke

and most unhealthy for crews, particularly those on shunting

and empty stock workings. The area cleared had some

of the worst slums of the nineteenth century. Known as 

Broomfields as is still the area to the east of the retaining 

wall

Shipley and Shipley Windhil stations

Shipley from Manningham facing North

I well rememeber this long back shunt from Shipley Manningham line

Manningham Station

In it's heyday at the turn of the last century

Where has it all gone

Did we loose it or give it away or more likely just not appreciate it

LNER Thompson B1 61306 'Mayflower' arrives at Bury

LNER Thompson B1 61306

61306 was privately purchased for preservation at Steamtown in Carnforth. There it was painted in LNER Apple Green Livery and given the number 1306 and the name Mayflower. 1306 would have been its allocated running number had the LNER not been nationalised (most ex-LNER BR numbers being the LNER 1946 numbers with the addition of 60000), while the name Mayflower came from a scrapped BR-built Thompson B1, numbered 61379.

My thanks to Wikipedia for the above

In less glamorous days at Bradford Exchange

61306 was a frequent visitor to Bradford in the latter days of steam

Above the engine being prepared for duty at Low Moor shed

Many thanks to Duncharris for the above pictures

A man & his engine WD132 Austerity 'Sapper'

On the East Lancs Railway

LNWR Super D departs Bury for Ramsbottom

Jinty arrives Bury Bolton St

Sapper as station Pilot

Sapper as banker

Bury Bolton St Station

Hunslet Austerity 'Sapper'

Banking and pilot duties

A lovely locomotive and excellent example

The works