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Most viewed - Ribble Steam Railway - Autumn Steam Gala + Deltic to Strand Rd. - 2015
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97 viewsAndrew Barclay 2261/1949 'No. 6.' banking the returning 10.30 freight
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97 viewsSwing bridge opens to let a boat out of the docks and into the River Ribble putting the timetable down by 10 minutes.
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97 viewsAndrew Barclay 2261/1949 'No. 6.' on the first passenger service at 11.00 crossing the swing bridge.
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97 viewsDeltic Prototype standing in the museum.
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96 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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96 viewsObjective achieved, and after about a 5 minute chance to take photographs, "Princess is re-attached and DEltic is pulled off the crossing.
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96 views"Princess" pulling Deltic back up the line towards Riversway and the reattaching of "Courageous" at the back.
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94 viewsDeltic Prototype on Strand road
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94 views"Princess" pulling Deltic back up the line towards Riversway and the reattaching of "Courageous" at the back.
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93 viewsAndrew Barclay 2261/1949 'No. 6.' bunker first and unseen here - Bagnall "Princess." with the first train of the day - the 10.15 freight down towards Strand Rd.
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93 viewsDeltic Prototype on Strand road
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91 viewsAnother view of the drivers controls
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89 viewsBagnalls "Princess" heads back from Stand Road towards the swing bridge.
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86 views"Princess" heads across the swing bridge towards Strand Rd with the 13.40 service.
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83 viewsNewly restored ex Corby Steelworks Hawthorn Leslie 3931/1938 "Linda" heads back along the Riversway back towards Riversway station on the 13.40 service.
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