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LMS Stanier Jubilee - 45717 "Dauntless" 302 viewsLMS Jubilee - 45717 "Dauntless" coming off its train at Hellifield and heading up the Blackburn Branch before running back to resting in the down goods loop line.
Fresh engine waiting on the main line waiting to back onto the coaching stock.
G Robinson.
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LMS Stanier 4-6-0 - Jubilee 45569 "Tasmania" 302 viewsCarlisle Upperby LMS Stanier 4-6-0 - Jubilee 45569 "Tasmania" running like a devil out of Hellifield heading for home.
G Robinson
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LMS Stanier 2-8-0 8F - 48154302 viewsLMS Stanier 2-8-0 8F - 48154 at Long Preston on an express freight.
G Robinson
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Class 24 D5054 "Phil Southern"302 views02/05/2021 - Class 24 D5054 "Phil Southern" crossing Brookbottom viaduct at Summerseat returning with the 11.00 service back to Bury.
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LMS Royal Scot Class - 46100 "Royal Scot" 302 views16/06/2022 - LMS Royal Scot Class - 46100 "Royal Scot" on 579Y from Crewe to Hellifield for "The Capitals express to Edinburgh"0n Hellifield down goods loop.
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Peckett 2003/1941 ‘John Blenkinsop’302 viewsThe locomotive was supplied to the Ministry of Supply, used at first in Swynnerton Royal Ordnance factory. It moved to the Royal Ordnance factory at Salwick, later the UK Atomic Energy Authority and finally BNFL.
It was a standby loco with two Hudswell diesels doing much of the work so it remained in good condition.
It went to the Middleton Railway in 1972 and was in use for 18 years.
Since 1990 the locomotive has been out of use and moved to RSR to join the two Salwick diesels ‘Mighty Atom‘ and ‘Sparky‘ in 2015 (Jan 28) for display in the museum.
The locomotive is on loan from The Middleton Railway, Hunslet, Leeds, being jointly owned by Mrs Sheila Bye and the Middleton Railway Trust Ltd.
The loco was named after John Blenkinsop (1783-1831) who was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive. In addition to managing the Middleton Collieries, in the 1820s John Blenkinsop was the consulting engineer for Sir John Lister Kaye of Denby Grange, owner of Caphouse Colliery. Also, as a qualified “Viewer”, he was hired by various other colliery owners to examine their collieries and report on such vital matters as the expected future production of a pit, as well as to make suggestions as to how its operation and production could be improved. Blenkinsop died in Leeds in 1831.
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Avonside 1568/1909 ‘Lucy’302 viewsLucy was built by the Avonside Engine Company at Bristol in 1909 and delivered to the Hutchinson Estate & Dock Co. Ltd. at Widnes. She was one of three class B3 0-6-0STs supplied having 14″ x 22″ cylinders and 3′ 3″ driving wheels, a type so familiar for so long in Liverpool’s dockland. They were named ‘Gertrude’, ‘Lucy’, and ‘Mary’ and dated from 1906, 1909 and 1913 respectively, and were named after the daughters of John Hutchinson, one of the founders of the Widnes chemical industry.
The engine ‘Lucy’ spent it’s entire working life on the Widnes dock system.
It was dismantled in August 1952 and sent to the Hunslet Engine Co. for overhaul. One year later, she returned to work very smartly painted green with yellow lining.
Lucy was retired in January 1971 and was purchased by the Liverpool Locomotive Preservation Group in February 1972 and stored together with ‘Efficient’ in a dockside engine shed at Seacombe. She was transferred to Steamport Southport on 1st August 1973, but briefly returned across the Mersey in July 1978 to take charge of the Birkenhead docker No.4 railtour. Once again in the early 1980’s, Lucy took retirement, and remains a static exhibit.
Lucy moved to Preston with the rest of the stock from Southport, and arrived in Preston on 27th February 1999. Recently given a new coat of paint for exhibition in the museum, the long term plan is to return Lucy to working condition once more when time and materials become available.
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301 views24/07/2010 - 6233 "Duchess of Sutherland"rushes towards Pleasington station in very poor drizzly conditions with a CME heading for Liverpool
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301 viewsNo32 "Gothenberg" sets off from Balm Road
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301 views"Planet No9" replica reverses empty back along the track towards Loughborough
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301 viewsClose up of 60163 "Tornado" at Kinchley Lane
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LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee 45690 'Leander'301 views12/08/09 - 5690 "Leander" passes by through Langho station with the returning "Fellsman" tour
Wed 12- AUG THE FELLSMAN
Lancaster-Carlisle (WCGN)
45690: Lancaster-Preston-Settle-Carlisle and return
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301 views6990 "Witherslack Hall" at the back of the sheds
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301 viewsDiesal shunters also under restoration
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301 viewsIvatt 46443 banks "Nunney Castle" into Arley station
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301 viewsL&Y "A" Class No.1300
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