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Stanier 2-6-0 Mogul - 42977 27 views1962 - Crewe allocated Stanier 2-6-0 Mogul - 42977 running through Hellifield station with a long set of unfitted mineral trucks heading north.
G Robinson.
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Stanier 2-6-0 Mogul - 4294732 views1962 - Stanier Mogul 2-6-0 42947 waits in Hellifield down goods loop with a freight waiting for the signal for the off to head North. Quite a rare sighting for this engine here being far from home,
G Robinson.
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LMS Hughes Crab 2-6-0 - 42938, 38 viewsLine up of engines in the shed line outside Hellifield shed including unknown 2-8-0 WD , LMS Hughes Crab waiting for duties - 42938, another unknown crab and other engines. Also in the distance another engine working in the sidings at the back of the shed/sand drying plant.
G Robinson
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LMS Hughes crab - 4292834 viewsLMS Hughes crab - 42928 waits to head north from the now filled in middle platform at Hellifield with a short parcels train.
G Robinson
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LMS Hughes crab - 4292836 viewsLMS Hughes 2 -6-0 Crab - 42928 pulling out of the centre north platform at Hellifield with a short parcels train heading North.00000
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LMS Hughes Crab 2-6-0 - 42895 34 views1962 - Lancaster Green Ayre engine LMS Hughes Crab 2-6-0 - 42895 arriving at Hellifield this time with a long mixed freight.
I like the sight of the signal mans bike lent against the post,
G Robinson
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LMS Hughes Crab 2-6-0 - 42895 44 views1962 - Lancaster Green Ayre engine LMS Hughes Crab 2-6-0 - 42895 arriving at Hellifield this time with a long mixed freight.
I like the sight of the signal mans bike lent against the post,
G Robinson.
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19 viewsHughes 2-6-0 Crab - 42851 arriving at the south end of Hellifield Sation with a parcels train from Skipton direction past WD 90595 in the down goods loop00000
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WD 2-8-0 9059538 viewsLMS Crab 42851 arriving at Hellifield from the south past Hellifield south junction signal box with a parcels service. WD 2-8-0 90595 was positioning around the station after shunted a soda ash mineral train into the sidings. Back in the early 1960`s the platform extended up to the signal box.00000
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LMS Hughes Crab 2-6-0 - 4277941 viewsLancaster Green Ayre Crab - 42779 sets off home towards Settle Junction and the Little North western Line from the north centre platform with a short parcels train passing Hellifield North signal box whilst BR Std 73171 arrives heading South with a freight.00000
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LMS Hughes Crab 42729, BR STD 72005 "Clan MacGregor" 40 viewsA typical Saturday afternoon scene at Hellifield with the train spotters around 72005 "Clan MacGregor" waiting in the centre platform with a local service to Carlisle.
LMS Hughes Crab 42729 piloting an unknown Jubilee waiting to head off to Carlisle with an Express service. Being a local Darwen shed engine, working a Saturday Manchester to Glasgow service via Blackburn and Clitheroe, the pilot coming off here.
(Probably me and my brother leaning against the lamp post - never got any long trousers till I wa
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LMS Hughes 2-6-0 Crab - 4271843 viewsLMS Hughes 2-6-0 Crab - 42718 outside Hellifield sheds.
G Robinson
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LMS Hughes 2-6-0 Crab - 42702 42 viewsTaken from Hellifield North signal box - LMS Hughes 2-6-0 Crab - 42702 arrives with an express excursion 1X59 probably from Carlisle ( on a Waverley relief service ? )
Note the express service heading north in the distance and the dead WD in the shed line .
G Robinson.
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62 views1962 - Taken from the South signal Box at Hellifield, a Unknown Tank takes out the local stopping service from the middle platform towards Blackburn
Geoff Robinson
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LMS Stanier 2-6-4 4MT tank- 4249253 views1962 - Allocated to 24H (Hellifield) at this time - Stanier 2-6-4 4MT tank- 42492 being positioned by unknown Midland 0-6-0 at Hellifield Sheds.
Cant recall ever seeing a diesel shunter here.
G Robinson
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9 views1963 - A cold wet Autumn evening with Stanier LMS Tank - 42491 in the south middle platform at Hellifield with a stopping train to Blackburn.00000
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