BR standard class 4 tank and the team

Thankfully many were spared as they do form the

backbone of our preserved railways 80135 at

Pickering North Yorkshire Moors Railway

 

 

And just introducing the whole team. Myself my

daughter Catherine and my wife Helen who I

think know as much about railways as I do

 

Many thanks http://www.nymr.co.uk/ whose

picture of the class 4 I am grateful for

More vintage engines Midland and SE&CR

The Midland Railway 115 Class is a class of 4-2-2 steam locomotive nicknamed "Spinners". They were designed by Samuel W. Johnson and a total of 15 of the class were built between 1896 and 1899.

 

 

The SECR D class is a class of 4-4-0 tender locomotives designed by Harry Wainwright for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.

Vintage engines L&NW Coal Tank and L&Y dreadnaught 0-6-0 No 957

The L&NWR Coal tank wearing the disguise of

No 7799

 

 

The L&Y Dreadnaught 0-6-0 built by Beyer Peacock

Makes a very spirited departure from Keighley

 

Pulling the Bullied heritage set.

 

These coaches are superb and treat to see. On display

in the Vintage Carriage Trust museum at Ingrow

 

http://www.kwvr.co.uk/

 

http://www.vintagecarriagestrust.org/

LMS Crab 13065 arriving Bury Bolton St station

I unique engine in steam.

 

 

 

Oxenhope station K&WVR and its facilities

The setting could not be more idyllic

 

 

The station buffet is housed in a buffet car

 

 

It adds real atmosphere to your visit

 

A product of the VCT no doubt

 

I super little shop with lots to look at and of course

buy

 

 

 

The booking office and waiting room

 

This time of year there will be an old fashioned

friendly fire in the grate to warm the waiting traveller.

 

http://www.kwvr.co.uk/

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Oxenhope station and its environs

Oxenhope is an very well laid out station with the

carriage sidings and shed adjacent to the station.

Here Riddles Austerity 90733 backs out with its

train for the day

 

 

Well planned and thoughtfully laid out

 

As can be seen always neat, tidy and well cared for

 

 

Platform just big enough for a six coach set

 

Several good places for safe photographic work

A4 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley

The rain didn't dampen the pleasure

 

 

In fact it added atmosphere to the pictures I think

 

The drivers bit.

The early autumn was pretty good too with lots to see

The east Lancashire Railway had not one but

two A4's working

 

 

Always a pleasure to see 'Sir Nigel Gresley'

 

But also 'Union of South Africa'

 

Bury Bolton St Station was the place

to be that weekend

 

A magnificent day.

 

Many thanks http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/

Derby 4F 43924 accelerating away from Ingrow with six on

This just shows the power of the little 4F

 

 

No problem whatever with six on and of course

it brings them back up the grade from Keighley

with ease too

 

 

Here at Oakworth, which was the station used in the

film. Problem here is length of platform with six on

 

 

They were dug out of the same disk which I found

with 957, do enjoy.

 

Of course always with grateful thanks for their work in preserving these lines and locos.

http://www.kwvr.co.uk/

 

 

Lancashire and Yorkshire 0-6-0 No 957 in steam

This was from a couple of years ago and I have just

found the disk with them, so here they are

 

 

As you all know 957 was one of the stars of the

film 'The Railway Children' which they, the children,

 christened 'The Green Giant'

 

 

This was a filming session by one of the TV Co's,

celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film, at

Oxenhope.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Austerity 'Sapper' on the East Lancashire Railway

Excellent engine with lots of power as shown on

the East Lancashire Railway.

 

 

Seen here at Rawtenstall

 

The drivers view

 

Our view

34092 in those first runs

Yes a very good year.

 

 

Here 'WELLS' on her first passenger run simmers

at Oxenhope.

Two of our giants in steam together

'Wells' 34092 and Austerity 90733

 

 

Its been a very good year

London & North Western Coal Tank 1054

 

Gleaming in the sun at Oxenhope just reminding

me what a lovely summer we had

 

 

The Vintage carriage set fits the scene perfectly

 

 

http://www.kwvr.co.uk/

Lynton and Barnstaple ISAAC detail

ISAAC - Bagnall No. 3023 - was built in 1953 at a cost of £5,540 as an 0-4-2T 2 ft (610 mm) gauge loco, one of four Bagnall locos built for the South African Rustenberg Platinum Mine. The locos were numbered RPM 1 to 4, with 3023 being RPM number 3.

 

 

When the 2ft gauge track at Rustenberg was altered to 3' 6", the four narrow-gauge locos (all now preserved) became redundant.

 

Nos.3. and 4 arrived at Gelert's Farm Works on the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway In April 1982. Work was begun on both locos but resources weren't sufficient to complete the work on both.

 

In 2007 No. 3 was sold to a private purchaser and moved to Wakefield for further restoration work.

 

In June 2012 the loco was relocated to Boston Lodge Works to complete the restoration, arriving at Woody Bay 29 November 2013. 

 

Many thanks to the http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk/

LB&SCR class B1 at the NRM

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway B1 Class is a class of 0-4-2 express passenger steam locomotives, known from the name of the first, No. 214, as the "Gladstones". They were the last express passenger design of William Stroudley, and were a larger and improved version of his Richmond class of 1878. Thirty-six locomotives were turned out from Brighton railway works between 1882 and 1891, and were used for the heaviest London to Brighton express trains. All were named after politicians, men associated with the railway, or places served by the railway. In 1889 No.189 Edward Blount was exhibited at the 1889 Paris Exhibition and received a gold medal.

 

 

The locomotives were originally designated "Class B" together with the "Richmond Class" but were later designated B1 class by D.E. Marsh.
During the first decade of the twentieth century the class were gradually replaced by Billinton B4 class locomotives and were transferred to secondary duties. Withdrawal began in April 1910 and by the outbreak of the First World War ten had been scrapped. The remaining twenty-six locomotives passed to the Southern Railway in 1923, but withdrawals recommenced in 1926 and the last survivor (No. 172) was withdrawn in 1933.

 

The first of the class, 214 Gladstone was preserved as a static exhibit thanks to the efforts of the Stephenson Locomotive Society and is normally on display in the National Railway Museum, York. Gladstone is the only ex LB&SCR tender locomotive to be preserved, as all the other preserved locomotives (ten A1/A1x "Terriers", one E1, and an E4) are tank engines.

A few for the Modellers

I find the posters scaled down look

quite good on my OO setup

 

Ramsbottom station on the East Lancashire Railway

With the demise of industry this part of Lancashire

has reverted to it's rural ways

 

 

Ramsbottom is a very lovely little town snuggling

close into the western Pennines.

 

Needless to say the railway station is a focus of much

of the visitor traffic

 

But it is not the only one with lots of shops and

pubs etc

 

And lots of very pleasant walk's in the Pennine hills

 

http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/

LNER 61994 'The Great Marquess'

At Bury Bolton St on the East Lancashire Railway

 

 

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class K4 is a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotives designed by Nigel Gresley for the steep grades of the West Highland Line.

The North British Railway (NBR) West Highland line to Mallaig via Fort William, presented a combined triple operating challenge of: steep gradients; severe curves; and restrictive axle loading limits. Having used D34 'Glen' 4-4-0s, increased loads led to regular double-heading. Locomotive engineers proposed use of LNER Class K3, but they would not have been permitted to operate between Fort William and Mallaig.
Having proposed a new design based on a K3 boiler, in October 1924 a loan was made of a single LNER Class K2, which provided the required increase in power and adhesion. As K3s replaced K2 on the network, more K2s were loaned to the line, with the loan becoming permanent from October 1925.
 

 

With further increases in load and needs for additional traffic speed, in September 1934 Gresley instructed Doncaster Works to investigate the possibility of increasing the tractive effort of the K2s. After recommending against a design which increased boiler pressure 220 psi (1.52 MPa) and cylinder diameter to 21 inches (533 mm), in 1935 the Joint Traffic & Locomotive Committee signed off provision of a new design by reducing the 1936 build of K3s from 21 to 20.
The eventual May 1936 design was based on the 1924 proposal for a 2-6-0 with 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) diameter coupled wheels, but with K3 cylinders, a K2 boiler, and a B17 firebox. The frame was 5 inches (13 cm) longer than the K3, with a design boiler pressure of 180 psi (1.24 MPa) giving a tractive effort of 32,939 lbf (146.5 kN), and an estimated factor of adhesion of 3.92.
The prototype K4 No.3441 left Darlington for Eastfield depot, Glasgow on 28 January 1937. After five weeks of crew training and being confined to goods work it made its début on a passenger train on 4 March. It soon became apparent that the 180 psi (1.24 MPa) boiler pressure brought little improvement in average speeds over the existing K2, and that No.3441 responded sluggishly when up against the gradients of the West Highland line. Gresley reacted by raising the steam pressure to 200 psi (1.38 MPa) which saw the tractive effort leap to 36,598 lbf (162.8 kN), with a corresponding reduction in the factor of adhesion to 3.54. The K4 could now demonstrate its true capabilities handling 300 ton trains and with maximum speeds around 60 mph (97 km/h) on level ground. An advantage of the newcomer was that it used only marginally more coal in working 300 ton trains than the K2s did with considerably lighter loads.
The successful trials with No.3441 led to five more being built. Apart from the prototype Loch Long all were named after Highland chieftains and grandees.


Many thanks to Wikipedia for the above notes

78022 Darlington built

Ex BR standard 2-6-0 2MT locomotive 78022, built at Darlington Works in 1954 to a BR standard design by Robert Riddles, was photographed in the display at Oxenhope.

 

 

The design was derived from the Ivatt-designed LMS Class 2MT 2-6-0, with a reduced cab to enable it to fit into a universal loading gauge, and other standard fittings, most notably a taller chimney, others including the lack of an Ivatt dome and side plates connecting the two sections of the engine. Like the LMS predecessor the BR design had a tender cab to enhance crew protection and visibility when running tender-first. They were all attached to a BR3 type tender.

These locomotives are often known by the nickname "Mickey Mouse".

 

 

Darlington works was responsible for building the entire fleet of 65 engines and for a time construction of the LMS and BR designs overlapped. The last No.78064 was completed in 1956 but the class remained intact for just seven years. Coincidentally the first to be withdrawn No.78015 was a Darlington-based engine.
Like the LMS counterpart, the Standard Mogul was arranged for a low axle-loading of just 13.75 long tons (13.97 t). This allowed it to operate on most lightly laid routes and secondary lines. Some of the class had speedometers fitted.
Among crews the 2MT 2-6-0 gained a reputation for being very sure-footed. Some maintained however that the engine did not steam well. The loudest complaint was about the draughty and dirty footplate. This was surprising given the efforts of Robert Riddles and his team to optimise working conditions in the Standards' cab layout.

Many thanks to Wikipedia for some of the above notes