Stanier Black Five 45305

In magnificent condition 45305 stands at Oxenhope

Thanks fully a good number of Black fives were 

preserved

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