Oakworth station K&WVR with Derby 4F

The station opened with the rest of the railway in 1867, and originally there was a signal box at the station which controlled a goods loop giving access to the goods yard and the level crossing. This was removed in the 1950s and control of the level crossing passed to the station staff, although it is still noticeable that the level crossing is still double track width, even though there is only a single line through the crossing.

 

 

 It is famous for being the station in the film The Railway Children. Milk churns on a hand cart and an old Midland Railway poster bring back images of a former age. The platform fencing is used to display old advertisement signs for products such as Virol

 

The Station can still be seen much as was in the period 1905–1910. It is still lit by gas lights both inside the buildings and on the platform.
The station foreman on duty at Oakworth also has responsibility for the level crossing at the end of the platform, which is controlled by interlocked signals.

 

For the first weekend of the Santa service USATC S160  2-8-0 5820 was scheduled to head the service but 43924 deputised on Saturday, resulting in a Derby product at each end as Class 25 25 059 was on the north end for the run down to Keighley. However 5820 was at the head on Sunday.
The schedule for the rest of the weekends up to Christmas is
Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th December LMS Class 5MT 4-6-0 45305
Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th December SR West Country Pacific 34092 ‘Wells’
Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st December LMS Class 5MT 4-6-0 45305

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9F Evening Star the last of a very very long line

92220 Evening Star was the last steam locomotive built by British Rail, and has for many years been a static exhibit at the National Railway Museum in York, where it resides today.

 

 

After being displayed at the "Locomotion" museum at Shildon, County Durham, the engine returned to its birthplace, Swindon Works, on 3 September 2008. Evening Star was exhibited for two years at the Swindon 'Steam' Railway Museum, swapping places with the GWR locomotive King George V. The locomotive has now returned to York.

The BR Standard 9F

Nine 9F locomotives avoided being scrapped at the end of steam traction on British Railways. Seven locomotives were obtained from Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. The other two were preserved upon withdrawal, with 92220 Evening Star reserved for the National Collection, and 92203 being purchased direct from BR by the noted artist and conservationist, David Shepherd in 1967.

 

 

As of 2013, four of the locomotives have not been restored to working order since withdrawal: 92134, 92207, 92219 and 92245. All were stored rusting in the open air for 20 or more years, and had component parts removed. Most have since received at least some cosmetic restoration to prevent them from deteriorating further. However, the 9F was one of the largest locomotives to run on British railways, and the cost of restoration is high

 

92245 needs a great deal of work, is missing many parts, and there have never been serious plans to fully restore it, so it is not expected to be restored anytime in the foreseeable future. At the moment the most likely outcome for 92245 is that it will be dismantled and sectioned in order to be part of an exhibition at Barry that will tell the story of the Woodham Brothers scrapyard.^{[speculation?]}
A fair amount of money and work has gone into both 92134 and 92207, but at the moment, it is not clear if they will be finished, or if so, when. 92219's restoration was announced in early 2013, and it was identified that Volunteers at the Stainmore Railway Company's site at Kirkby Stephen now hope to restore it to its former glory.^{[speculation?]}

Many thanks to Wikipedia for the above notes.

Photoraphs by me

and as always http://www.nymr.co.uk/

A damp day at Woody Bay Bagnall's ISAAC in charge

 

A damp day often adds to the atmosphere. Here

Bagnalls Staffordshire built ISAAC takes charge

of the new vintage carriage set at Woody bay

 

 

I think this is as close you get without the original

locomotives. Undoubtedly the feel is for the original

proportions now having been achieved

 

 

An absolutely superb 60cm narrow gauge railway

recreating the feel of the 20's and 30's

9F 92214 Cock O the North

At Pickering a little while ago now

 

 

Named in 2011 as Cock O' The North by the previous owners, and fully lined out in fictional BR Lined Black livery of which the 9F's never carried. It is fully operational at the Great Central Railway.

 

On loan at the East Lancashire Railway between 2006 and 2008. It was bought by the 92214 Locomotive Group (based at the Midland Railway Centre), and fully restored to working order. Like no. 92203 this locomotive was named after being preserved. The name had been carried by three locomotives on the former London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), of classes P2 its rebuilt form as A2/2 and C11. The name was suggested by Valerie Walter, the Company Secretary of the company owning the locomotive (PV Premier Limited), whose grandfather served with the Gordon Highlanders during the First World War (Cock o' the North being the traditional epithet attached to the Chief of the Gordon Clan of Scotland), with no prior knowledge that the name had been used by the LNER for some of their locomotives.

 

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

 

 

Black five 45407

 

LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' is a LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 locomotive engine built at Armstrong Whitworth in 1937. Owned by railway engineering company Riley and Son, it is one of 18 surviving Black 5's.

 

Stanier Black five 45407

Ready to depart for Grosmont and Whitby

 

 

A super engine and always good to see