Steam Memories: June 2016

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

After the withdrawal from service of BR Class 4MT 4-6-0 75078 at the weekend, the weekday service has been in the hands of MR 4F 0-6-0 43924.

However, it is anticipated that repairs will be completed in time for 75078 to resume duties on 1st July and will be the main steam locomotive Saturday and Sunday and throughout the week.

Sunday sees the third of our 'Vintage Train' days when TVR 0-6-2T no. 85 will head the ‘main’ Vintage Set which will be formed of four coaches, comprising coaches from theLancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust and Vintage Carriages Trust:
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Club Car, no. 47
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 6-wheel 3rd Class coach, no. 1507
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Brake 3rd, no. 1474
Metropolitan Railway Brake 3rd, no. 427

The ‘shuttle’ Vintage Set hauled by LNWR 0-6-2T 'Coal Tank' will once again consist of two carriages from the Vintage Carriages Trust fleet:
Great Northern Railway 6-wheel Brake, no. 589
Southern Railway 'Chatham' Brake, no. 3554

The normal early morning diesel railbus is rested on Saturday and English Electric Class 20 no. 20 031 will take the service set on the morning diesel run before handing over to 75078. The Class 101 DMU will operate the Sunday morning diesel service.

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.

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K&WVR Haworth yard and sheds USA S160 and the Taff Vale tank

USA 5820

Draws its train into Haworth

This was the first official outing for the Taffy Tank

Here with its now running mate the LNWR Coal Tank

They are proving to be a great pair.

Thursday, 23 June 2016

Locomotive Roster for Weekend 25th & 26th June and all next week to Friday 1st July 2016

by news@kwvr

Saturday sees the third of our 'Big Diesel' days when our normal early morning diesel railbus is rested and one of our mainline diesels, hauling coaching, stock takes its place and operates throughout the day in addition to our steam service

This Saturday's diesel haulage will be provided by English Electric Class 20 no. 20 031. 20 031 is not the only diesel haulage this weekend as Sunday will see 0-6-0 diesel shunter D0226 on the early morning railcar service for two round trips from Oxenhope to Keighley.

The main steam locomotive this weekend and throughout the week will be BR Class 4MT 4-6-0 75078, joined on Sunday by MR 4F 0-6-0 43924

For the timetables in operation this weekend, please click HERE to visit the timetable page.

news@kwvr | 23 June 2016 at 20:24 | Tags: 20031, 43924, 75078, D0226, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway,KWVR, Worth Valley Railway | Categories: 20 031 Class 20 Diesel Electric, 43924 Midland 4F 0-6-0, 75078 BR Standard 4 4-6-0, D0226 Vulcan 0-6-0, KWVR, Locomotive Rosters | URL: http://wp.me/p49H9R-1vb

Wednesday, 22 June 2016

70013 Oliver Cromwell on shed at Loughborough

On shed at Loughborough was 70013

The Great Central Railway has a very busy shed

Always worth a visit, very friendly staff.

One of 55 of the "Britannia" class, Oliver Cromwell was built at Crewe Works, being completed on 30 May 1951. 70013 was initially allocated to Norwich depot (BR shed code 32A) on the Eastern Region of British Railwaysand employed on London to Norwich expresses. Some of the Norwich diagrams (the day's operating schedule for a locomotive) required two return trips a day to London totalling 460 miles. The introduction of the Britannia Pacifics revolutionised express services in East Anglia.

In December 1963, 70013 was transferred to the London Midland Region at Carlisle Kingmoor Depot (shed code 12A) for freight, parcels and occasional passenger work – most regular express services were by now diesel-hauled. The north-west of England became the steam locomotive's last area of operation on BR. On 3 October 1966? 70013 entered Crewe Works and became the last BR-owned steam locomotive to undergo routine heavy overhaul, being out-shopped after a special ceremony in February 1967. 70013 was selected to operate the last steam passenger train prior to the abolition of steam traction on British Railways lines, and in the summer of 1968 Oliver Cromwell hauled several specials, culminating in the Fifteen Guinea Special which ran between Liverpool and Carlisle on 11 August that year and which 70013 hauled on the Manchester to Carlisle leg of the trip.

Oliver Cromwell became part of the National Railway Museum's National Collection immediately after the end of the Fifteen Guinea Special^[1] (70000 Britannia, later preserved privately, had previously been earmarked for this move). Despite a steam ban after 11 August 1968, 70013 moved under its own steam on 12 August to its old shed at Norwich and then, on 13 August, to Diss whence she was transported by road to Bressingham Steam & Gardens. At Bressingham, 70013 was in service to provide footplate rides until the 1980s, before retiring into the museum exhibition.

In 2004, it was announced that Oliver Cromwell would be restored to main-line standard in preparation for the 40th anniversary of the end of steam, with significant financial assistance from the readers of Steam Railway magazine.^[2] The locomotive was overhauled at the Great Central Railway (GCR) to mainline standards which included the fitting of the train protection warning system, overhaul of 70013's automatic warning system and the fitment of OTMR. On the weekend of 3 May – 4 May 2008, the locomotive hauled its first revenue-earning passenger services since being restored on the GCR's eight-mile route. The locomotive made an appearance at the National Railway Museum's 1968 and All That event celebrating 40 years since the end of steam.

Tuesday, 21 June 2016

The buffet car is always popular

Every self respecting train has one

I have always found them to be very well

looked after. Could it be the lads feel

very much at home in the bar

Well all credit to them and the work

Those 'Dastardly diesels' lets us focus on the rolling stock

The Yorkshire Dales Railway aka the Embsay

Boton Abbey line

The diesel days do help us focus on the rolling stock

From the old and friendly to the modern

The class 37 was a very successful engine

Quorn and Woodhouse station Great Central Railway

Once again the memories of that train set return

with the pictures of Quorn

Not exactly like the Triang plastic building but

very similar

The superb day made the pictures

Thay had just had their 1940's weekend hence the

tape on the windows.

You could almost have been in 1940

Black five 45305 AKA LMS 5305 and The Drapers engine.

No.5305, curiously and unlike most preserved Black 5s, is usually known by its LMS number. It is an Armstrong Whitworth locomotive constructed in 1937. It spent its working life all over the more southerly sections of the former LMS network and saw its final allocation to Lostock Hall (in Preston), and lasted to the end of main line steam on British Railways in the summer of 1968. It was then sent for scrap.

No.5305 became the last locomotive on the scrap line of Drapers of Hull, who broke up 742 former BR locomotives. No.5305 was to have been the 743^rd and last, but it was decided to keep it and bring it back to full running order.

No.5305 was put in the care of the Humberside Locomotive Preservation Group and based at Hull Dairycoates MPD where it was eventually brought up to full main line standard. The locomotive left Hull Dairycoates in April, 1992 on the closure of that shed and went to RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire. It arrived on the GCR 20^th November, 1996 and was returned to service in 2003.

The locomotive is currently enjoying a spell on the main line but remains firmly based at the GCR. Recently it has operated trips to Chester, Shrewsbury, Stratford on Avon and Ely while working out of its main line base at Tyesley, Birmingham. The main line trips are organised by the 5305 Locomotive Association and more are planned. Between main line trips it operates the GCR services and is used on passenger services, demonstration goods trains, the Windcutter 16 ton mineral wagon train and on the GCR’s unique mail train where it is able to demonstrate its useful turn of speed whilst exchanging mail at speed at Quorn & Woodhouse.

The Midland LMS Jinty

Yes that brings back the memories, how many of

us remember that first Triang train set whose

power unit was the little jinty

One of the few still working seen here at

Loughborough shed

You could almost pick it up and place it on the track

as we did so all those years ago

Loughborough station on the Great Central Railway

Two weeks ago on a beautiful summer day we

visited the Great Central Railway

The station is full of nostalgia and of course steam

memories

This was just how it was

Well done the Great Central

Monday, 20 June 2016

Vintage carriage weekend K&WVR LNWR Coal Tank and GNR six wheeler

The first outing in passenger service the GNR six

wheeler makes a nice pairing with the LNWR Coal

Tank

I believe the oldest engine still with mainline capability

The Vintage Carriage Trust have done a magnificent

job on the six wheeler.

I was reminded yesterday by one of the lads from the

VCT that is might well have run on the line not

a hundred yards from where I took this picture at

Ingrow West. The GNR Bradford to Halifax

line lay above and behind those trees we see

WD Austerity 2-8-0 was in charge of the main services yesterday on the K&WVR

The general service was in the hands of Riddles

WD Austerity yesterday

A superb engine

Posed well outside Keighley

Saturday, 18 June 2016

Derby 4F 43924

On duty this weekend, Seen here earlier this year

Departing Ingrow for Keighley

This weekend you can see the LNWR Coal Tank

working the Keighley shuttle to Ingrow

Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

A busy day with the standard class 4 and the

The Great Marquess.

I little bit more of LNER heritage along with the

The A4 Sir Nigel Gresley in the background

A very lovely railway

Friday, 17 June 2016

K&WVR Locomotive Roster for Weekend 18th & 19th June and all next week to Friday 24th June 2016

Locomotive Roster for Weekend 18th & 19th June and all next week to Friday 24th June 2016

by news@kwvr

The weekday service has been in the hands of MR 4F 0-6-0 43924. 43924 steps down for the weekend with WD 2-8-0 90733 to take charge of all steam services Saturday through to Friday. The morning diesel service will be provided by the Class 101 diesel multiple unit.

On Saturday we have a special timetable with our two Class 08 diesel shunters taking a rare turn on passenger duties. See our Class 08 Celebration event page for more details.

This weekend also features the second outing of the year of the Vintage Train on Sunday, supplemented once again by a vintage Keighley - Ingrow West shuttle. TVR 0-6-2T no. 85 will haul the full line service with LNWR 0-6-2T 'Coal Tank' 1054 on the shuttles.

The ‘main’ Vintage Set will be formed of four coaches, comprising coaches from theLancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust and Vintage Carriages Trust:
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Club Car, no. 47
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 6-wheel 3rd Class coach, no. 1507
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Brake 3rd, no. 1474
Metropolitan Railway Brake 3rd, no. 427

The ‘shuttle’ Vintage Set will consist of two carriages from the Vintage Carriages Trustfleet:
Great Northern Railway 6-wheel Brake, no. 589
Southern Railway 'Chatham' Brake, no. 3554

For the timetables in operation this weekend, please click HERE to visit the timetable page.

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Wednesday, 15 June 2016

K&WVR 957 overhaul on the agenda

957 overhaul on the agenda

by news@kwvr

It is almost 3½ years since Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Barton Wright ‘Ironclad’ 0-6-0 No. 957 (BR 52044), last steamed and it will not have gone unnoticed that we are fast approaching the 50^th anniversary of the making of the iconic film 'The Railway Children', a film in which No. 957 achieved immortality as ‘The Green Dragon’.

The locomotive is now owned by the 'Bowers 957 Trust' and agreement has been reached to start the restoration process. A preliminary investigation of the locomotive’s condition was encouraging but until some dismantling had been done it was not possible to predict the full extent (and therefore cost) of the work required. During its recent period of display at Oxenhope, a considerable amount of preventive maintenance took place and certain fittings removed and placed in safe storage. It is anticipated that 957 will move to Haworth in early July for dismantling to begin in earnest.

Currently there are no major obstacles envisaged to the restoration of 957 to active service, although, where steam locomotives are concerned, one never knows what actually lies beneath what is visible to the eye.

More details of the project will appear in due course in the Society's quarterly magazine, Push & Pull.