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Friday 30 September 2016

K&WVR Locomotive Roster for Weekend 1st & 2nd October and Wednesday 5th October 2016

Locomotive Roster for Weekend 1st & 2nd October and Wednesday 5th October 2016

by news@kwvr
Over the 2 days of the weekend, BR Class 4MT 4-6-0 75078 will be at the head of the main service with Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T no. 85 once again providing the second steam service for the third week in succession, on Sunday.
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The morning weekend diesel service and the mid-week diesel railbus service will be in the hands of the Class 101 diesel multiple unit.
For the timetables in operation this weekend, please click HERE to visit the timetable page.
Whilst every effort will made to ensure that the advised motive power and coaching stock are available, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway reserve the right to change this when operational circumstances so dictate.

Wednesday 28 September 2016

K&WVR Autumn Steam Spectacular

Autumn Steam Spectacular - Friday 7th - Saturday 9th October 2016

The stage is set with TWO visiting locomotives and all the home fleet looking in good fettle in time for the 2016 Autumn Steam Spectacular. With most of the pieces of the jigsaw in place the Passenger Timetables have been released and can be viewed on the main website.
In addition we know that many of our enthusiast readers have been chomping at the bit for the Working Timetable and this is now available to download - Working Timetables.
After so many setbacks in recent times, we are excited at the prospect of welcoming everyone to what promises to be the best Keighley & Worth Valley Railway for some considerable years.
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Monday 26 September 2016

Black Five 45428 ladies in charge

45428 had significant female manning
yesterday which is always a pleasure
to see


A lady driver and a trainee lady fireman out 
of sight


Just goes to show it wan't only little boys that
wanted to be engine drivers.


Good on yer ladies and thank you for a very 
pleasant ride

North Yorkshire Moors Railway yesterday Sun 25th Sept

Black five 45428. 


Named in preservation after the Bishop who was 
also a famous Railway photographer


Dedicated to Bishop Eric Treacy

Thursday 22 September 2016

K&WVR Locomotive Roster for Weekend 24th & 25th September and Wednesday 28th September 2016



Locomotive Roster for Weekend 24th & 25th September and Wednesday 28th September 2016

by news@kwvr
Over the 2 days of the weekend, WD 2-8-0 90733 will be at the head of the main service with Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T no. 85 providing the second steam service for the second week in succession on Sunday.
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Saturday sees the last of the big diesel Saturdays when we will have a 2 train service with steam on one and one of our mainline diesels on the other. For this last service, English Electric Class 20 20 031 will be at the sharp. On Sunday the Class 101 diesel will be doing the honours on the early morning service.
Mid-week is the Wednesday diesel railbus service when a full line service operates with the Class 101 diesel multiple unit.
For the timetables in operation this weekend, please click HERE to visit the timetable page.
Whilst every effort will made to ensure that the advised motive power and coaching stock are available, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway reserve the right to change this when operational circumstances so dictate.
by news@kwvr
Over the 2 days of the weekend, WD 2-8-0 90733 will be at the head of the main service with Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T no. 85 providing the second steam service for the second week in succession on Sunday.
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Saturday sees the last of the big diesel Saturdays when we will have a 2 train service with steam on one and one of our mainline diesels on the other. For this last service, English Electric Class 20 20 031 will be at the sharp. On Sunday the Class 101 diesel will be doing the honours on the early morning service.
Mid-week is the Wednesday diesel railbus service when a full line service operates with the Class 101 diesel multiple unit.
For the timetables in operation this weekend, please click HERE to visit the timetable page.
Whilst every effort will made to ensure that the advised motive power and coaching stock are available, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway reserve the right to change this when operational circumstances so dictate.

London and North Western Railway Coal Tank Engine

It is a superb spot at Keighley as the engine runs
forward for the points change and run back down
onto its train.


We are very lucky to have the coal tank and thanks
to the Bahamas Locomotive Society




Wednesday 21 September 2016

9F 92203 'Black Prince'


Thanks to David Shepherd 


His rescue of 92203 was in the vanguard of steam 
preservation


Seen here at Holt on the North Norfolk Railway


Thankfully one of a number that have been preserved


There's a fire in the hole



Southern Railways N15 'Sir Lamiel' Robert Urie and Richard Maunsell

Here seen at the Great Central Railway on my visit
three weeks ago. Part of the National Collection
now preserved and resident at Loughborough.



Leading dia.3 feet 1 inch (0.940 m)
Driver dia.6 feet 7 inches (2.007 m)
Length
66 feet 5

34 inches (20.263 m)
Loco weight80 long tons 19 cwt (181,300 lb or 82.2 t)
Fuel typeCoal
Boiler pressure200 psi (1.38 MPa)
CylindersTwo, outside
Cylinder size
20

12 in × 28 in (520 mm × 710 mm)

Southern Railway 777 Sir Lamiel is an N15 “King Arthur” class 4-6-0 steam locomotive built for the Southern Railway by the North British Locomotive Company in June 1925, and withdrawn from service in October 1961. The locomotive is named after a fictional minor Knight of the Round Table named Lamiel of Cardiff. Lamiel is mentioned in Book XIX of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, where it is said he was "a great lover".

Many thanks to Wikepedia for the above

LMS Derby 4F as the Devonian

Wearing the headboard of a famous train I knew well


4F  43924 arrives at Ingrow.


Must have lost its way, Devon is South


A lovely re-creation.

Tuesday 20 September 2016

The Vale of Llangollen Railway

Large Prairie 


At Carrog


A very lovely railway


Midland Railway stations. This is Ingrow

In the winter the fire is always welcoming


Very Victorian


Maybe a little austere


The LNWR Coal tank and the Taff Vale Tank

They made a superb pairing early this year


They have both been out this year on the Vintage carriage days


Monday 19 September 2016

Keighley and Worth Valley, volunteers one and all

The railway depends on volunteers


All do the work for the love of the railways and 
the wish to preserve in some living way a little 
of the past


The support they need from you is to visit them and
travel on the trains, enter the time machine.

Loughborough Great Central Railway

Like a trip back in time. 


Our preserved railways offer a sort of time machine.


As we remember it 


Where time has stood still


Kept immaculately clean and tidy and all by volunteers. 

Friday 16 September 2016

A timeless LMS scene, Midland 4F awaits at Oxenhope.

A scene that could easily have been the 1930's
40's and 50's. Maybe the shop sign gives it away.


A timeless scene, not from the long ago past but 
just last Friday as the train from Keighley arrived 
at Oxenhope. Passengers gone it now awaits the 
new passengers for the return. The crew take a 
well earned break over lunch.  


Thursday 15 September 2016

K&WVR Autumn steam gala update

Guest Loco Line Up for Autumn Steam Spectacular

by news@kwvr
Having earlier announced the first guest locomotive for the 2016 Autumn Steam Spectacular, SR Re-built Light Pacific 34053 'Sir Keith Park', we are delighted to announce a second guest locomotive in the shape of Great Western Manor Class 4-6-0 7822 'Foxcote Manor'. After a number of setbacks in previous Galas, the KWVR is, at last, looking forward to putting on quite a show.

7822 'Foxcote Manor'

7822's normal residency is on the Llangollen Railway in Central Wales and is the pride and joy of the Foxcote Manor Society to whom we are grateful for allowing us to showcase their locomotive over the 3 day Gala.
Locomotive No. 7822 "Foxcote Manor" is a Manor class locomotive, designed by Charles Collett of the Great Western Railway and built by British Railways at Swindon Works in 1950 to a design dating back to the late 1930s. These locomotives were designed with a relatively light axle loading to replace life expired types at work on the inclines of Wales.
Like many locomotives, at the end of steam, 7822 was sent to Woodham's scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. However in 1972, like many of its stablemates at Barry, a Society was formed to save her for a future in British preservation.
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34053 'Sir Keith Park'

34053 operates on the Severn Valley Railway in Shropshire and comes to the Railway courtesy of Southern Locomotives Ltd who own 7 locomotives, 5 of which, including 34053, are members of the SR Light Pacific, Battle of Britain and West Country classes of locomotive, both in original and re-built form.
These locomotives were introduced in 1945 by the Southern Railway to a design by Oliver Bulleid to a design that was light enough to operate almost anywhere on the Southern Railway. As built they incorporated the same novel features most noticeably chain-driven valve-gear, inside motion enclosed in an oil bath and 'air-smoothed' casing such as can be seen on 34092 'City of Wells'.
Following the conversion of the visually similar Merchant Navy locos, the decision was taken to rebuild the Battle of Britain and West Country classes into more conventional locomotives. The approaching demise of Southern steam saw the rebuilding program halted but not before 34053 had been converted to its more conventional outline. 34053's end came in 1966, like 7822, being despatched to Woodham's scrapyard.
Bought in 1979 by a private individual, it was not until 1984 that it left Barry and eventual ownership by Southern Locomotives Ltd. and subsequent restoration to working order.
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