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Friday 28 March 2014

Keighley Worth Valley, Oxenhope exhibition hall

Always plenty to see in the hall at Oxenhope
 
 
It's free too

 
Get up close to the locomotives

 
Always lots on display


Great Central Railway

Around Quorn
 
 
Lots of atmosphere

 
On going permanent way work

 
Quorn Station



Tuesday 18 March 2014

Sunday 16 March 2014

Sans Pareil The very begining

The Stockton and Darlington
 
 
The beginning of passenger transport on the railway

 
Sans Pareil at Shildon

 
The coaching stock reminiscent of the stage coach

 
First and second class were covered


Veterans of the 'Race to the North'

LNWR 'Cornwall
 
 
A single wheeler and champion of the West Coast
Main Line

 
Stirling's single wheeler of the GNR No1
The champion of the East coast Main Line


Tuesday 11 March 2014

West Somerset Railway

A few more unpublished pics from Minehead
 
 
That famous S&D

 
Yes even the steam railways need some instant
shunting power

 
And the whole panoply of maintenance


Sunday 9 March 2014

A4's a plenty

We are so lucky to have so many preserved
 
 
Dominion of Canada & Bittern

 
Union of South Africa

 
And in tribute to the Designer
 
'Sir Nigel Gresley'

 
 

Mallard the record breaker

At Shildon
 
 
Earlier this year at the 'Gathering'

 
Still a remarkable sight


Friday 7 March 2014

GNR (LNER) and L&Y Express locomotives

Originally designed and built by the GNR the A1
Pacific's were the fastest
 
 
Hughes on the L&Y designed heavy fast passenger
locomotives for the cross country routes

 
Serving both east and west coast

 
L&Y loco's could be seen from Morecombe to
Cleethorpes

 
The Atlantic design played and important part
just as it did with the GNR
 

Those ever tempting railway posters

Meant for the working class
and that much loves wakes week
 

L&Y 4 6 0 Heavy Passenger express

Both Southport and Blackpool along with Morecombe
were served by the big 4 6 0 heavy locomotives
of the L&Y on excursion work to the coast 
 

Blackpool was for the rest of us

But many found it to be the
the much needed break
 

Southport was pretty swish

The Lancs and Yorks served the industrial areas
in many and varied ways
 

Wednesday 5 March 2014

The American connection

Taken from the American wheel arrangement 4 4 2
Commonly known as the Atlantic
 
 
They must have been a thrilling ride in those early
days just after the races to the North

 
I have it they were a lively ride on the footplate

Tuesday 4 March 2014

Nigel Gresly's A4 class

The streaks were indeed a product of my county's
industrial might
 
 
 

A few more Posters

 
The A4s were the very image
of speed in the 1930's

 
I am always pleased to see my county shown in
its true light. Yes there were many very heavily
industrialised areas but 90% of the county
is rural


Sunday 2 March 2014

GNR Windhill Junction

This old picture shows Windhill Junction looking
east. The BR standard on the Leeds line coasts
down to Shipley Station, the GNR line is to the
right and steep gradient up to Thackley can
be seen
 

Great Central Railway Spinner

GCR Class 13 4-2-2 No. 967 (LNER X4).
The class 13 single was the only true Pollitt engine
for passenger work. Most of the other engines were developments ...
 
 
Built at Gorton 1900 1909
 
Harry Pollitt (1864–?) was Locomotive Engineer of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway from 1894–1897 and its successor, the Great Central Railway, from 1897-1900. He was Robinsons immediate predecessor
 
My thanks to Wikepedia for the above

Ivatt J5 0 6 0 freight locomotive

Built for the GNR and a common sight on the
Queensbury lines. Workhorses of the railway
the pulled passenger as well as freight
 

Saturday 1 March 2014

One for American memories

Brooklyn terminus, a very atmospheric photo
 
 
I never knew the system across the Brooklyn bridge
was so complex. This would have been taken not
long after the bridges completion

Dudley Hill

The branch in the distance took trains over to Low moor
 

One hundred years ago

The old Midland Railways Leeds & Bradford Express