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Personal blog of Steam Galas & Mainline Steam running from around the North of England. Pictures copyright of Author!!
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USA Transportation Corps S160 - 5197407 viewsUSA Transportation Corps S160 - 5197 piloting 6046 under the road bridge out of Kingsley and Froghall station
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USA Transportation Corps S160 - 5197, 6046407 viewsUSA Transportation Corps S160 - 5197 piloting 6046 at Apesford country road crossing heading to to Ipstones loop with the 15.15 service.
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GWR 2-6-0 7822 "Foxcote Manor"407 views04/3/2017 - GWR 2-6-0 7822 "Foxcote Manor" arrving back at Llangollen after a lengthy delay at signals on the 13:35 from Corwen.
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LNER 4-6-2 A3 60103 "Flying Scotsman"407 views31/03/2017 - First attempt using a drone following a steam train - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" approaching Selside on the Settle & Carlisle Railway.

video at - https://youtu.be/x1xt-ia3-rs

no sound on video
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BR STD 4 - 4-6-0 - 75078407 views08/04/2017 - BR Std 4 - 75078 heading for Oxenhope
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LNER 4-6-2 A3 60103 "Flying Scotsman"407 views16/05/2017 - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" coming off Whalley Viaduct at Billington foot crossing running a leg of the "Cathedrals Express" from Edinburgh to London.
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LMS Pacific 4-6-2 - 46233 "Duchess of Sutherland"407 views27/05/2017 - Into the Blue ! - 46233 "Duchess of Sutherland" exiting Blea Moor tunnel on the "Hadrian" heading for Carlisle.
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LMS 4-6-0 Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman"407 views20/06/2017 - 46115 "Scots Guardsman" waits in Hellifield down goods loop to collect "The Dalesman" Excursion from York to Carlisle.
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LNER 4-6-2 A3 60103 "Flying Scotsman"407 views29/07/2017 - After being held at the end of the Blackburn Branch after watering and waiting for the "Hadrian" to arrive, 60103 "Flying Scotsman about to run through Hellifield station to connect to the front of the train in the goods loop
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LMS 2-6-0 Crab - 13065, LNER B12 4-6-0 8572 407 views30/01/2018 - LMS 2-6-0 Crab - 13065 pilots LNER B12 4-6-0 8572 on the 13.45 service from Loughborough near Budden Lane underpass.
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LMS 2-8-0 - 8F - 48151407 views22/05/2018 - LMS 8F - 48151 on the returning Dalesman having just run through Long Preston station

I went to Helwith bridge to catch it but was nearly 30mins early and passed by as i was parking up. It was stopped at Settle Junction to let a service train pass from Carnforth and managed to get in front and get a second chance of a photograph
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LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee - 45706 "Express" 407 viewsNewton Heath engine - LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee - 45706 "Express" entering Hellifield station from the north on a ballast train'
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Andrew Barclay 1147/1908 ‘John Howe’407 viewsThe loco was ordered in 1908 by Howe’s Plaster Works, to work between the private sidings (Howes Sidings Box) on the Settle & Carlisle near Cumwhinton, in Cumberland (as it was then), and their works at Cocklakes. This private branch contained quite a severe gradient up to the works – of which little trace is left today. Howes Plaster Works later became “Carlisle Plaster Co” and later part of British Gypsum.


In the early 1970’s Steamtown in Carnforth were looking to obtain some smaller locos that were more econmical to use than main line machines, to operate their footplate rides.
The loco was purchased along with a number of sister locos, and was taken to Steamtown, Carnforth for preservation. They had been stored in a shed for a number of years, and it is recalled how thick the white Gypsum dust covering the engines was before they left.
Upon arrival at Carnforth, the loco received attention to the boiler, and was painted in Campbeltown & Machrihanish North British livery.

The holes below the existing buffers previously house a set of secondary buffers that would match up with the small wooden wagons that were used in Cocklakes.

The loco ran at Carnforth for a number of years, and being re-restored at RSR operated regularly up to the end of the 2013 season. It was loaned to Beamish in 2014 and then returned once again to Galas on our line in 2014 and 2015. It is currently out of traffic once again…. (It featured on Preston Flag market on July 4th 2015 for a Marketing Day)
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LMS Jubilee Class 45699 "Galatea" with different numbers and nameplate407 views13/07/2023 LMS Jubilee - 45699 heads north at Helwith Bridge with "The Dalesman" from York ( Steam on at Hellifield)
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