Bradford Exchange station

A view many Bradfordian's will remember as 

we searched for our train coming in

The view is up towards St Dunstan's underneath 

Bridge St with Croft St bridge in the near distance.

Class 4 75078 departs Oxenhope on a cold and snowy winters day

It was a chilly day during the initial runs of 75078

Standard class 4 during running in at Haworth

Seen here during the running in period earlier this

year

A few more of the 'Yank'

Safeties blowing off, it reverses it's train out of the

Oxenhope carriage shed.

Now fully loaded she departs Oxenhope for Keighley

Via Haworth Oakworth Damens and Ingrow

We are very pleased to have this engine and even 

more so in steam.

A well known sign to me.

How often have I seen that sign at the end of the

platform as i returned form many journeys 

Sometimes from far way places in my merchant 

navy days

BR Class 4 75029 at Pickering on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

75029 runs off its train prior to running around

A good comparison to the K&WVR's class 4

BR 4-6-0 Standard Class 4MT no.75029 "The Green Knight" was built in 1954 and bought by David Shepherd from BR in 1967. The engine was based at the ill-fated Longmoor Steam Railway until coming to the ESR in 1973. In the late 1990`s the engine was sold and is now based on the North York Moors Railway. 75029 was built at Swindon Works in 1954 and is fitted with a large double chimney and one of few turned in BR green livery.

Technical detail specifications of locomotive 75029: Boiler pressure of 75029: 225 lbf/sq.in. superheated, Weight of 75029: loco 67.9 tons, tender 42.2 tons, Wheel diameter of 75029: 3' 0'', 5' 8", Valve gear of 75029: Walschaerts piston valves, Cylinders (diameter x stroke) of 75029: 18" x 28" (O), Tractive effort of 75029: 25520 lbf., BR Power classification of 75029: Class 4MT, Route availability RA 4

90733 a last couple for now

we got a lovely spring day a few months ago and 

I got 90733 in the sunshine

Tea always on the brew

An austere footplate 

USA S160 5820 collects its train from Oxenhope carriage sheds

Again from earlier this year S160 5820

BR standard class 4 4-6-0

The Standard Class 4  is a class of steam locomotives, 80 of which were built during the 1950s. Six have been preserved.

The class was introduced in 1951. They were designed for mixed traffic use on secondary routes where the otherwise ubiquitous BR standard class 5 and their predecessors, the Black Fives, would be too heavy. They were essentially a tender version of the standard 4 2-6-4T, with similar characteristics to the GWR Manor Class, though unlike the Manors they were built to the universal loading gauge. They used the same running gear as the tank engine (with the leading bogie from the Standard Class 5), and substantially the same firebox, smokebox and boiler, although the boiler barrel was increased in length by 9 inches (229 mm).

Design work was done at Brighton by R. A. Riddles, with help from Swindon, Derby and Doncaster. Construction was at the BR Swindon Works.

It normally used the standard BR2 or BR2A tender, which weighed 42.15 long tons (42.83 t; 47.21 short tons) and carried 3,500 imp gal (16,000 l; 4,200 US gal) of water and 6.00 long tons (6.10 t; 6.72 short tons) of coal. In this configuration its route availability was 4, almost universal over the British Railways network. The class was initially allocated to the London Midland Region (45) and the Western Region (20). The last 15 were allocated to the Southern Region. The Southern batch were built with BR1B tenders, which weighed 49.15 long tons (49.94 t; 55.05 short tons), and carried 4,725 imp gal (21,480 l; 5,674 US gal) of water and 7.00 long tons (7.11 t; 7.84 short tons) of coal. This reduced their route availability to 7, the same as the Standard Class 5. 75078 being one of this group with larger tender

See it running now all summer at http://kwvr.co.uk/

R A Riddles standard class 4 75078

BR 4-6-0 standard loco 75078 built at Swindon 1956.

Fitted with double chimney. 

It was a very wet Saturday earlier this year when 

75078 was still running in

The rain was windblown but still in stair rods, slanting

stair rods.

But it gave the engine a super gleam

Blinking wet though. 

Technical detail specifications of locomotive 75078: Boiler pressure of 75078: 225 lbf/sq.in. superheated, Weight of 75078: loco 67.9 tons, tender 42.2 tons, Wheel diameter of 75078: 3' 0'', 5' 8", Valve gear of 75078: Walschaerts piston valves, Cylinders (diameter x stroke) of 75078: 18" x 28" (O), Tractive effort of 75078: 25520 lbf., BR Power classification of 75078: Class 4MT, Route availability RA 4

BR Std class4 75078

Runs onto its train at Oxenhope

Now well run in and doing sterling service on the line

Midland 4F 43924, the very first to leave Barry scrapyard

An opportunity to view some of the detain of this

iconic engine which was the first to be removed 

from Barry scrapyard

Restored on the K&WVR

The internal workings are all pretty available 

An essential factor in oiling round

A very good design which served the Midland 

railway well

As we see it still serves the K&WVR well too

Where time stands still Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

Oxenhope is kept exactly as it and many 

other stations would have been in the

Edwardian and even earlier periods

Like time has stood still for a while

Only the modern day dress tells the truth

Midland class 4

Rebuilt West country Pacific 'Braunton'

One of the few rebuilt West Country pacific's of the 

Southern Railway, seen at Minehead.

Many were left unrebuilt as the North Devon lines

weight restrictions barred the rebuild's as the 

added weight of the full size outside Walschaerts 

valve gear took them over the limit

Awaiting the call Oxenhope

Here they stand awaiting the call to the workshops

The atmosphere of steam

I seem to have lived my life with steam never far

away. On a ship of course it is everywhere

The atmosphere never goes 

90733 at Haworth yesterday.

LMS Crab 13065 departs Ramsbottom for Rawtenstall

Standing by the level crossing gates at Ramsbottom

on the East Lancashire Railway

It certainly brings back the memories of those times

past 

Austerity 2-8-0 90733 slow pan in Haworth Yard yesterday

90733 was being prepared for the days work as I

arrived at Haworth yesterday

Thank goodness we saved one at least.

LMS Crab 13065 at Bury Bolton St station

A good slow pan across this engine only one of 

two now preserved and this the only one in steam

Austerity 2-8-0 being prepared at Haworth

Austerity 2-8-0 90733 was hauling the steam services

 at the Keighley and Worth Valley railway today, 

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Pug

I got a closer loom at the L&Y Pug this weekend 

As you see it is tubeless, we can only hope one day

it may be restored as I was the first engine to pull

passengers on the K&WVR albeit a run around the

Haworth loop. 

Modelled by many of us from the little Airfix kit

Seen often in and around the L&Y dock system 

USA S100 switcher.

As requested by American readers 

hers some pictures of No 72 at the 

K&WVR 

You specifically asked for front end

pictures, hope these will help

BR Std 75078 and the Pullman set

Today 75078 had a special service in tow for the 

Bradford Railway Society and had the Pullman set

in the train. 

British Railways standard class 4 75078

Completed in 1956, 75078 is one of a class of 80 engines built to a standard British Railways design and is from a batch supplied to the Southern Region. As this region did not have any water troughs it is attached to a tender with larger capacity for water and coal, than others of its class. In addition it is fitted with a double blast pipe and chimney for better power outputs with more economic returns in coal and water consumption.

The loco went new to Exmouth Junction early in 1956 before being transferred to Basingstoke in May of the same year, eventually being withdrawn from Eastleigh shed in July 1966 and sold for scrap to Woodham Bros. of South Wales.

Midland Railway 43924 4F leaves Oxenhope with a train for Keighley

The very first engine to leave Woodham's

Still performing magnificently hauling regular service

trains on the line.

Railway Posters 'Clear Road Ahead' Terence Cuneo

The railways posters were another great source 

of railway art

The Railway Children on the K&WVR

The Green Dragon 

L&Y 0-6-0 was the centre piece of the story

Flying Scotsman departs York for London

Our jig saw manufacturers have been great at 

spreading the art of the railways