A Jinty at Keighley Station
Four black and white images of 0-6-0 tank engine 47279, an ex.LMS and Midland Railway locomotive, commonly known as a Jinty, at Keighley station on the Worth Valley Railway in June 201o. View the full post
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Steam Engines at Ingrow West
Following yesterday’s monochrome shots taken at the KWVR Winter Steam Gala, today I’m uploading three colour shots of steam engines and their trains at or passing through Ingrow West station. View the full post
Double Headers on the Worth Valley Railway
I’ve been sorting out my hard drives and processing some images from the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway’s Winter Steam Gala held earlier this year. Below are three shots of combinations of engines used as double headers on some of the train run over the weekend of the gala. View the full post
Buckfastleigh Station
Black and White images of Buckfastleigh station, terminus of the South Devon Railway, a heritage steam railway that used to be the Ashburton branch of the Great Western Railway and British Railways before it was closed as part of the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. The branch originally terminated at Ashburton but had to be shortened to Buckfastleigh in order to allow the building of the A38 dual carriageway. View the full post
Goathland Station, Scotland?
A couple of shots of BR Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Engine 80072, masquerading as 80136, waiting in Goathland station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
These shots were taken on our visit during the Scottish Branchlines Gala a few months ago and were taken out of the window of our train from Pickering as we approached Goathland. View the full post
Railway Paraphernalia
Photographs of railway, steam era, paraphernalia taken at Totnes station on the South Devon Railway last month. It’s amazing the number of items that the heritage railways seem to accumulate … View the full post
Q6 63395 Monos
Three shots from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s Scottish Branchlines Gala held a couple of moths ago. all the images are of ex.LNER 0-8-0 Class Q6 steam engine 63395 at Grosmont station. The photos have been converted to black and white, slightly toned, two showing a the engine at the head of a rake of LNER Teak coaches and the third is of it running through the station light engine. View the full post
Pannier Tank 6412
These are three shots of ex.GWR Pannier Tank 6412 at Totnes from a trip to the South Devon Railway today, an heritage railway formed from the now truncated Ashburton branch of the former GWR. The railway now runs along side the River Dart between Totnes and Buckfastleigh. View the full post
Coaling
Some shots of BR Class 4T locomotive 80126 (in fact it’s 80072, re-numbered for the Gala) heading for and under the coaling plant at Grosmont on the NYMR earlier today. The engine has been re-numbered to mkeep it “in character” for the Scottish Branchlines Gala being held this weekend and next. View the full post
Tank Engine
Three more shots from the recent Steam Gala on the Worth Valley Railway. These are all of one of the railway’s resident tank engine, ex. LNWR Coal Tank number 1054.
Two of the shots are taken at the passing loop at Damems and the other at Oxenhope station. View the full post