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LMS Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 "Lancashire Fusilier"295 views26/10/2005 - "The Blackpool Express" - Black 5 -45407 in disguise as 44996 arrives at Machester Victoria on its return journey to Rawtenstall.

25-27 Oct THE BLACKPOOL EXPRESS
Rawtenstall-Blackpool (WCRC)
45407: Rawtenstall-Bury-Manchester-Blackpool -Manchester-Castleton
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295 viewsSR 34007 "Wadebridge" in profile, tender first passing past Woodthorpe bridge on a returning service to Loughborough
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295 viewsLMS Black 5 45231 heads the 11.00 service from Bury to Rawtenstall heading into Burrs cutting
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295 viewsIvatt 41241 banks the freight out of Keighley station with the 14.25 goods service to Damens loop.
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295 views11/07/2012 - 48151 on "The Fellsman"exiting Wilpshire tunnel into the cutting as a passing class 150 service train heads in the opposite direction.
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295 views0-6-0 Saddle tank "Lamport No.2 outside Shackerstone sheds.
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295 views2-6-2 Prairie tank - 5521 at Shenton station running into the loop line around the platform.
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295 viewsIvatt 2mt tank - 41241 on a positioning move around Keighley station limits
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295 viewsL&Y 0-6-0`s 1300 & 957 paired together, return towards Haworth on the 13.50 from Oxenhope.
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295 viewsFowler 0-6-0 4f - 43924 powers towards Oxenhope with the 13.50 service from Keighley
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295 viewsFirst service of the day towards Rawtenstall and Black 5 45407 rushes along Burrs Straight running on time.
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295 viewsGWR KIng - 6023 "King Edward II" approaching Rothley with the 2.30 pm service from Loughborough
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295 views12/06/2013 - 61994 "The Great Marquess" pulls the load on the first of the summer season of "The "Fellsman" from Carnforth to Carlisle via the S & C Railway captured here between Whalley and Clitheroe and Barrow footcrossing on the outward journey
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295 views22/02/2014 - USATC S160 No. 6046 & GER N7 No 69621 head through the cutting at Bradnob heading for Ipstones on a late running service

34007 "Wadebridge" had early split its fire grate on the first run and dropped its fire into the ashpan and had barely made it back to Cheddleton causing very late running and a near abandonment of the timetable for the day.

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