The blog of a retired marine engineer who is old enough to remember the steam era and the joys of holiday trips in trains hauled by steam engines. Please feel free to comment or contact me on teachertalk1234@yahoo.co.uk. The blog is updated daily so please look back or follow regularly so as not to miss information and pictures
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Saturday, 16 May 2015
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways 0-4-0 dock shunter or 'Pug'
Friday, 15 May 2015
Midland Jinty 0-6-0 shunting a short run tank engine
Made popular for most of us in the Triang electric
train sets of the 50's
There are still a plethora of them about on ebay
However for many of us they were our introduction
to steam traction even though our tiny replicas were
electrically driven.
This real one was at Bury Bolton St station last autumn
Thursday, 14 May 2015
West Country Pacific 'City of Wells'
Just after major overhaul, which took
very nearly thirty years, at Oxenhope
Pulling forwards from its train prior to running
round for the return to Keighley
This coming weekend sees the Haworth 1940's
weekend and the K&WVR are as always involved
They will be running the two wartime locomotives
USATC S160 5820 and the Riddles Austerity 90733
More details at http://kwvr.co.uk/
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