It was cold but crisp and the scene perfect
Midland 4F 43924 rounds the bend on the approach
to Oxenhope
Yes the station is gas lit
I don't think there was much demand for ice cream
Maybe one day, the works have got plenty on at the
moment, Midland 3F 0-6-0
Where 47279 was built
Vulcan Foundry was a British locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. Details of the earliest locomotives are not precisely known despite an "official" list apparently concocted in the 1890s which contains a lot of guesswork and invention, with many quite fictitious locomotives, for the period before 1845. This list claims that the first two locomotives were 0-4-0 Tayleur and Stephenson built in 1833 for "Mr Hargreaves, Bolton", but this seems unlikely. The earliest authenticated products were 0-4-0 Titan and Orion, similar to Stephenson's design, and delivered in September and October 1834 to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. Other early orders came from the Leicester and Swannington Railway and there were then some 4-2-0s for America which were among the first British 'bogie' locomotives. Following the formation of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 some very large orders were received, including over a hundred LMS Fowler Class 3F 0-6-0T engines and seventy-five LMS Compound 4-4-0 locomotives.
Many thanks to Wikipedia for the above note on the Vulcan Foundry.
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