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

KWVR Oxenhope carriage sheds

Preparing for the days work.

 

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

Great Central Railway

Heavy lift for accident and maintainence

 

 

Always the odd diesel

Arival Shelly, Kirklees Light Railway

Kirklees Light Railway

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A few more unpublished pics from Minehead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

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

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