 Most viewed - Last Days of the North East Lancs Loop line |
505 viewscirca 1963 - LMS Mogel Crab - 42717 running downhill along Railway View (now Hamledon View) into Great Harwood Station with a fitted freight from Blackburn towards Padiham.
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504 viewspictures of the old railway track being removed. Looks like they were taken from the old Harwood Road railway bridge at Rishton, looking towards Great Harwood
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LMS Black 5 - 44949499 views27/07/1964 - LMS Black 5 - 44949 heading out of Great Harwood on Holiday excursion 3T46 to Southport.
G Robinson.
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493 viewsLocal Lower Darwen Engine - Stanier 2-6-4 Tank waits at Great Harwood Station on a holiday special to the coaast.
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LMS Hughes Crab - 42732482 viewsAugust 1962 - LMS Hughes Crab - 42732 runs tender first with a short freight under Unity Bridge at 7.00 am towards the station.
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LMS Hughes 2-6-0 "Crab" - 42729466 views15/04/1963 - LMS Hughes 2-6-0 "Crab" - 42729 -on !Z12 passing Great Harwood west signal box heading for the coast.
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LMS Hughes "Crab" 2-6-0 - 42732 423 views21/06/1962 - Almost fresh out of Horwich works earlier in the month, LMS Hughes "Crab" 2-6-0 42732 prepares to collect carriage stock from the nearby carriage works for 1T95 to Southport
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LMS Stanier 2-8-0 8F - 48218 402 viewsAnother view of - LMS Stanier 8F - 48218 and the works train between Prospect Street and Cambridge Street . Note near side track already removed.
b/w photograph G Robinson.
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LMS Stanier 2-8-0 8F - 48218 398 viewsLMS Stanier 2-8-0 8F - 48218 between Prospect Street and Meadow Street with a works train removing the trackbed.
B/W photograph G Robinson.
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LMS Stanier Black 5 44728 397 viewsLMS Stanier Black 5 44728 ? leaves Great Harwood station on 1T58, a holiday special to the coast.
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45377 397 views27/07/1963 -"Return of the Blackpool Belle" - Blackpool LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45377 discharges some its passengers in the late evening at Great Harwood Station with a returning seaside special IP61 before proceeding onto Padiham, Rose Grove, Burnley & Colne.
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LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Black 5 - 45216 395 views30/07/1964 - LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45216 emerges from Harwood Road bridge heading towards Blackburn at Rishton heading for southport.
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Class 31 Diesel - D5838382 views18/05/1964 - Only picture I have got of a diesel coming through Great Harwood - Class 31, D5838 (A Sheffield loco - Wath) passes into the station heading from the Padiham direction with a special 1X15 detoured around the loop line at Rose Grove, heading for the coast from Yorkshire
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LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee Class - 45684 "Jutland" 373 views28/07/1964 - LMS Stanier Jubilee 45684 "Jutland" passes under Harwood Rd Bridge at Rishton - note that the nameplate has already been removed and "Ringo" written - sign of the times with the Beatles being the top band of the time.
Borrowed from Derby sheds, It had worked a Bloxwich to Blackpool and then failed. Once repaired it was borrowed to work to Colne after which Rose Grove use it on this special from Colne to Lakeside on the 26th and here from Colne to Morecambe on the 28th.
The engine was withdrawn from service 2 months later and scrapped.
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