No.63601, GCR 8K Class

No.63601, GCR 8K Class, reached its one hundredth birthday in January, 2012. As No.102 the locomotive rolled out of the Gorton works of the Great Central Railway in January, 1912 and was one of the first of the class designed to haul the heavy freight trains to and from the enormous new port of Immingham opened by the GCR in July,1912.



                                

The GCR 2-8-0 class has a complex history as in the First World War the design was selected by the Railway Operating Division for large scale production. These and engines commandeered from the GCR became known as RODs.

Great Central Railway Loughborough shed and BR standard 78018

The week before my afternoon on the K&WVR

'my own railway', I visited the GCR Loughborough

shed.

Nearing completion now the BR STD class 2 

78018 will is back in steam and should appear at

the GREAT CENTRALS Autumn steam gala

Derbt 4F 43924 the first engine to leave Barry for preservation

Yes 43924 was the very first and still in fine fettle

For one or two at the K&WVR it has a very special place

K&WVR and the summer gone. Derby 4F 43924

It was only six weeks ago

Now with the first falls of winter snow it is but 

a memory

Carrying the Devonian headboard it reminds this

old man of summers past

Though we were usually hauled by a Jubilee 

Age gives us much but sadly takes much more

Ohhhhh to be twenty one again and know what I know now.

Never mind there is always next summer.

Barton Wright L&Y 0-6-0 Ironclad AKA Class 25

Barton Wright ‘Ironclad’ 0-6-0 No. 957 (BR 52044) built by Bayer Peacock  in 1887 and last steamed four years ago. Now begins the work to restore this iconic engine. 

The Yorkshire and Lancashire class 25 known as an Ironclad is now in need of heavy overhaul.

The boiler will have to be taken out of the frames for thorough examination and any faults rectified and new tubes fitted. The cylinders and running gear dismantled for overhaul. Expensive long term 

work.

The boiler is now prepared for lifting when a lowmac

is available at Haworth

This was it's last steaming four years ago. An appeal is being opened for the cost of restoring this iconic engine. Details will be posted as soon as they are known. At 129 years old she is in surprisingly good shape from what can be seen. So hope fully not too long a term restoration.

Diesels at the Great Central Railway

I do not despise the diesels, indeed my time at sea

was principally spent on motor ships with very big 

diesel engines.

Every big railway should have a class 37

Class 45 Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry.

The Class 44's received the 12LDA28 set at 2,300hp, the addition of intercooling brought the rating upto 2,500hp for the Class 45's built from 1960 - 1963. The view below is of one of the 'B' variants awaiting installation into a Class 45 during the late 1970's. Sulzer obtained even more out of this design by increasing the rpm to 800 and reinforcing/strengthening certain components to allow 2,750hp to be delivered.

Variously named over the years but generally called

class 25. Sometimes Class2 Sulzers

Built at Darlington works in 1963

Always a class 08 around

Class 20 were the workhorses of early diesel 

freight 

K&WVR View from the shed, the Taff Vale Tank

Sandwiched between the class 20 diesel and the

diesel railcar sits the Taff Vale Tank engine

Some work needed so she will be in the works for

a few weeks

Gives me the opportunity to get some close up pictures

 for you

The full backhead layout

Reversing lever and brake ejector

15 Inch gauge Kirklees Light Railway

'OWL' is one of the 15 inch gauge locomotives on

the Kirklees

A superbly built articulated locomotive

 It was built by Brian Taylor in 2000 at Clayton West. It is based on an engraving of an engine that was never actually built. Similar engines were constructed in Bristol and Leeds and exported for use abroad.

Its cylinders are arranged in an unusual ‘V’ formation and it moves itself along by an arrangement that is usually found on diesel engines – it has gears!

Owl is painted in the colours of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. It is mainly used on weekend trains.

K&WVR Locomotive Roster for the Weekend 12th & 13th November 2016

Locomotive Roster for the Weekend 12th & 13th November 2016 by news@kwvr

The rostered locomotive for last weekend, S160 2-8-0 no. 5820, unfortunately had not had repairs completed in time to take its turn on passenger duty and BR Standard Class 4MT 4-6-0 75078 filled the breach. Originally rostered for this coming weekend, 75078 will, if repairs are complete on 5820, be rested and the S160 will take the passengers turns in its stead. However if repairs are not completed an alternative locomotive will be rostered.

Once again DRB M79964 will operate the diesel turns throughout the weekend.

Whilst every effort will made to ensure that the advised motive power is available, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway reserve the right to change this when operational circumstances so dictate.

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The Taff Vale Tank engine

One of the three very old engines resident on the 

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

The Taff Vale tank engine of 1899

Built for the tight curves found in the colliery's of 

Welsh Valleys 

No 85 is the only one of two saved to be still in steam

A very strong engine ideally suited to the K&WVR

You can often see her pulling the Vintage Carriage

on Sundays