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BR Pacific 4-6-2 70000 "Britannia"345 views15/07/2020 - BR Pacific 70000 "Britannia" returning with "The Fellsman" approaching Wilpshire and Ramsgreave on the way back to Crewe from Carlisle

Stanier 2-6-0 Mogul - 42947345 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.

LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45232345 viewsProbably a Bolton engine at the time this was taken. LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45232 on shed at Hellifield
G Robinson

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899345 viewsHellifield Shed in the 1960`s when closed for traffic, was used to store a few engines for the then new National Railway Museum in York. My father managed to get a look around this store and managed to get a few photgraphs.

LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Black 5 - 45436345 viewsLMS Stanier 4-6-0 Black 5 - 45436 heading north out of Hellifield towards Long Preston with a short parcels and goods train
G Robinson

LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee Class - 45626 "Seychelles"345 views01/08/1964 - LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee Class - 45626 "Seychelles" leaving Ribblehead Viaduct behind and about to run through the station with a passenger service from Carlisle heading towards Settle Junction
G Robinson

LMS Stanier 2-8-0 8F345 viewsAugust 1963 - Heading north leaving Horton in Ribblesdale, unknown LMS 8F drags its load of empty long Meg mineral wagons northward towards Ribblehead Viaduct and onto Ais Gil summit and onto the mineral quarry.
G Robinson

BR Britannia class pacific 4-6-2 - 70002 "Geoffrey Chaucer"345 viewsBR Britannia class pacific 4-6-2 - 70002 "Geoffrey Chaucer" arriving at Settle on a local stopping service to Carlisle
G Robinson

BR STD 9F 2-10-0345 viewsAugust 1963 - Unknown BR STD 9F 2-10-0 works a Long Meg mineral train to Widnes seen here between Selside and Horton in Ribblesdale
G Robinson

BR STD 9F 2-10-0 92249345 views18/07/1964 - BR STD 9F 2-10-0 92249 Working its way up the incline to the summit of the S & C, and dragging its load of Long Meg mineral wagons for Widnes
G Robinson,

LMS Ivatt 2-6-2 Tank - 41312, L & Y Railway 0-6-0ST - 752 (51456)345 views17/10/2021 - LMS Ivatt 2-6-2 Tank - 41312 and L & Y Railway 0-6-0ST - 752 (51456) on the returning 14.50 service from Rawtenstall entering Ramsbottom.

SR Merchant Navy class Pacific - 35018 "British India Line" 345 views15/10/2022 - SR Merchant Navy class Pacific - 35018 "British India Line" gets a helpful push from the back on the climb up Whalley Banks approaching Langho station in the rain on a Cumbrian Mountain Express

LMS Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman" 345 views11/02/2023 - LMS Royal Scot class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman" on the Winter Cumbrian Express on the approach to Ais Gill summit

SR pacific 34067 "Tangmere" 345 views10/02/2024 - BoB Class SR Pacific - 34067 "Tangmere" passing Brock on the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express from Manchester to Carlisle.