 Most viewed - Ribble Steam Railway - Autumn Steam Gala + Deltic to Strand Rd. - 2015 |
152 viewsBagnalls "Priness" banking the 11.00 service towards Strand Rd.
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152 viewsBagnalls "Courageous" being prepared for duties in the shed yard.
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152 viewsDeltic Prototype on Strand road
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151 viewsPrototype Deltic on the swing bridge
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151 viewsDeltic Prototype on Strand road - The former site of the English Electric site where it was manufactured.
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150 viewsThe prototype required a second man - this was his seat and controls looking after the train heating plus other duties. Lower right there is a small hot plate, so no doubt his job was to brew up as well. They couldn`t drink too much - no toilets in this prototype and no stopping on long distances!
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149 viewsAndrew Barclay 2261/1949 'No. 6.' on the first passenger service at 11.00 crossing the swing bridge.
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149 viewsAndrew Barclay 2261/1949 'No. 6.' pulls off the rear of the train at Preston Riversway.
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149 viewsA tight fit and not much room to walk along inside the engine department
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148 viewsFurther back along the line again, the trio cross the swing bridge
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147 viewsAndrew Barclay 2261/1949 'No. 6.' banking the returning 10.30 freight
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147 views Newly restored ex Corby Steelworks Hawthorn Leslie 3931/1938 "Linda"
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147 views14/09/2015 - An attempt to get the Diesel Prototype back to its place of manufacture 60 years earlier at the English Electric Works which was at Strand Road.
Earlier in the day -"Courageous" and "Princess" where used for the first time to move the Lindley Oil tankers down the line to the processing works and are now being used to top & tail the Deltic back down to Strand Road.
Here "Courageous" pulls Deltic onto the swing bridge tailed by "Princess"
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146 viewsBagnall "Princess" passes by along Riversway straight with the newly restored Banana Van on the returning 10.15 freight.
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146 viewsDeltic Prototype standing in the museum.
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145 viewsHaving remove "Courageous" from the front. Deltic is pushed by "Princess" onto Stand Road, stopping all the traffic on this busy main road for a few minutes.
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