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GWR 0-6-0 Pannier Tank - 6412155 views08/03/2010 - Returning GWR 0-6-0 Pannier Tank - 6412 on 1J52 - 09.30 service off Rawtenstall, leaving Summerseat at the foot crossing

LMS 4-6-0 Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman" 155 views17/06/2021 - LMS 4-6-0 Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman" returning at Hellifield with a running of the Dalesman from York to Carlisle. Seen here running around support coach before heading back to Carnforth

LMS Ivatt 2-6-2 Tank - 41312155 views16/10/2021 - LMS Ivatt 2-6-2 Tank - 41312 at Burrs Country Park on the 13.30 service to Rawtenstall from Bury

LNER A3 4-6-2- pacific - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" 155 views60103 "Flying Scotsman" in the down loop line with support coach

LNER A3 4-6-2- pacific - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" 155 views60103 "Flying Scotsman" in the down loop line leaving the support coach behind

LNER A3 4-6-2- pacific - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" 155 views60103 "Flying Scotsman" now moved around the station into the up loop to taking on water

(I left at this point to head up into the dales to Selside)

0-4-0 Sentinel "Ann"155 views26/02/2022 -Saturday - Sentinel 0-4-0 "Ann" makes her main line appearance on the 15.05 shuttle from Bury to Ramsbottom passing Burrs Brilliant run past !

L&Y 0-4-0 Pug "19" 155 views18/06/2022 - L&Y 0-4-0 Pug "19" reverse shunting trucks from Castlecroft yard into Bury Station.

L&Y 0-4-0 Pug "19" 155 views18/06/2022 - L&Y 0-4-0 Pug "19" arrives at Ramsbottom with the 13.42 shuttle service from Bury

This shuttle service was pushed in front of the service from Rawtenstall which was late running and returned a few minutes later.

LMS Royal Scot class 46115 "Scots Guardsman"155 views02/10/2022 - A late running "Lune Rivers Trust" from Carnforth to York with LMS Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman" arriving at Hellifield.

Peckett 2003/1941 ‘John Blenkinsop’155 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.

SR Pacific - 4 6 2 - Western County Class -34092 "City of Wells"155 views02/01/2023 - SR Pacific - 4 6 2 - Western County Class -34092 "City of Wells" running around the carriage at Heywood for the 12,25 to Rawtenstall.

LMS Black 5 - 45231 "Sherwood Forester"155 views20/05/2023 - LMS Black 5 - 45231 "Sherwood Forester" returning with the "Lakelander" crossing the River Kent at Arnside

SR Bullied pacific - 4 6 2 34092 "City of Wells "155 views15/10/2023 - Sunday - SR Bullied Pacific - 4 6 2 34092 "City of Wells banking the 11.30 service to Rawtenstall from Bury at Irwell Vale.