Adensfield ne Goathland on the NYMR

Made famous by the TV program Heartbeat one of the principle staions on the North Yorks is Goathland. A picture pretty North Yorkshire village well worth a visit. Why not travell by rail from Pickering or Whitby.

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York Station

The wide sweep of YORK station was more used to A1's 2's 3's and streamlined A4's, but today we are just happy to see steam again on the mainline. Here an LMS visitor in the form of Princess Royal Pacific Princess Elizabeth rests with the Scarborough spa express.

Cleckheaton West Yorkshire

Cleckheaton is now largely a residential area serving Bradford Batley ans Dewsbury. However it was once a centre of much industry as it's station and good yard indicate.

Laying to the west of Bradford and the next stop from Low Moor and the major MPD.

Cleckheaton Goods

Cleackheaton station 

Whitby station

Memories of the summer just gone on this snowy cold day.

Ariving from Pickering via Grosmont and all stations west. The palm trees make it look positively oriental. North Yorks Orient Express maybe!

Into Queensbury from Thornton

What looks to be a Gresley J23 tank approaches Queensbury with a goods from Keighley via Thornton

The Great Northern Railway Class J23 was a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotive. They had long side tanks that came to the front of the smokebox, which sloped forwards to improve visibility and had a recess cut in to aid maintenance. Forty were built by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) between 1913 and 1922, with a further 62 being added by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) between 1924 and 1939. None of the locomotives survive today.

Wikepedia

For shunting and local goods work, the Great Northern Railway (GNR) had traditionally used saddle-tank engines of the 0-6-0 wheel arrangement; the last of these, of GNR Class J13, having been built in 1909 to the designs of H.A. Ivatt, the GNR Locomotive Superintendent.
Nigel Gresley succeeded Ivatt in 1911, and soon identified a need for engines to work the short-haul coal traffic in the West Riding of Yorkshire; the nature of which required that the locomotives also be suitable for shunting. He designed a new class of 0-6-0 tank engine, using side tanks instead of saddle tanks. Gresley had recently begun the rebuilding of the GNR Class L1 0-8-2T locomotives with larger boilers, 4 feet 8 inches (1.42 m) in diameter, which left a number of 4-foot-2-inch (1.27 m) diameter boilers spare. Thirty of these were used in the construction of the new goods tank engines between 1913 and 1919 when ten more were built in 1922, these again used secondhand boilers, but 4 feet 5 inches (1.35 m) in diameter. On the GNR, both varieties were classified J23, but the LNER divided them into J51 with smaller boilers, and J50 with larger boilers. The LNER continued the construction of Class J50, building a further 62 down to 1939, only the first ten of which were given secondhand boilers.Class J51 were rebuilt to class J50 between 1929 and 1935.
Each of the two main classes exhibited variations: locomotive brakes could be operated by vacuum or steam pressure; the driving position could be on the right- or the left-hand side of the cab; and there were three sizes of coal bunker.



N2 leaving Queensbury

Gresley N2 tank

Once a common sight on the GNR's Queensbury and Laisterdyke to Shipley route, the N class tanks were the mainstay of motive power on those hilly lines

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