Ramsbottom station, how stations used to be

Our preserved railways remind us and teach our 

children 'how things used to be'

Here children experience living history as they

visit Ramsbottom station on the East Lancashire

Railway

This is a very real lesson because it is not seen as 

a lesson, it's just fun

We all remember when all stations looked like this 

and of course the fact that there were many of them

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 'Dreadnought' LMS No 1300 at Ramsbottom

Last weekend I was over at the East Lancashire

Railway at Ramsbottom and Bury

Here Dreadnought 0-6-0 rests with a goods train

Heading off up to Rawtenstall light engine

And of course of great interest on the platform

Class fives both Stanier and Riddles along with Wells and the Austerity

Above is Black five 45305 at Oxenhope

Riddles class five 73129 at Bridgenorth

Wells 34092 at Oxenhope

And lastly the Riddles Austerity 90733 

Derby 4F 43924

The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway are holding

their Railway Children weekend over the bank 

holiday and 43924 will be running in company

with City of Wells.

See details at 

http://kwvr.co.uk/

West Country Pacific 34092 City of Wells

Resplendent last year just after return to steam

A magnificent engine

It's the Railway Children Weekend on the K&WVR

this weekend so I might well be going along. Wells

will be running along with Derby 4F 43924

Visit them at 

http://kwvr.co.uk/

A4 60007, Coal tank 7799, 4F 43924 a little added atmosphere

Just me having a play with software

Changing the pictures to sepia adds a little I think

Above the LNWR Coal Tank and below the Derby 

4F as they might have been pictures all those years

ago

Caprotti and Walschaerts Std class 5 and 4 comparison

Here a comparison between the Caprotti class

5 and the Walshearts class 4

 

 

I know it is not a perfect comparison between

class 5 and class 4 however the point is still

valid. Was the Walschaerts heavier on the

class five than the Caprotti 

 

Here73129 rests at Bridgenorth

 

Was there a significant weight saving

 

To my eyes the Walschaerts would have been heavier

 

Large piston valves and of course extra valve gear

 

So was there a difference in overall weight

 

I know when the WC/BB engines were

changed from Bullied's chain gear to Walschaerts the

Weight gain caused by the Walschaerts limited their

availability of the far Devon and Cornwall lines