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LMS Stanier Pacific - 6201 "Princess Elizabeth 192 views03/07/2021 - Trying out a Nikon Coolpix P1000 super zoom bridge camera here and approx half a mile away from 6201 "Princess Elizabeth" as it runs onto Ribblehead Viaduct with a running of The Northern Belle: Settle & Carlisle Steam Special returning from Carlisle to Nottingham, (steam as far as Hellifield)

LNER Sentinal Y1 Class - 0-4-0VBGT steam locomotive, '68153'192 views04/09/2/21- LNER Sentinal Y1 Class - 0-4-0 in light steam having a test run in the goods siding.

GWR 4-6-0 "Saint Class " 2999 "Lady of Legend"192 views GWR 4-6-0 "Saint Class " 2999 "Lady of Legend" departing Levisham Station and heading to Grosmont from Pickering

Is it me ? I always seem to be confused at that station regarding directions from where the trains are coming from.

LNER 4-6-2 Peppercorn Class A1 60163 "Tornado"192 views07/10/2021 - Still dismal skies as LNER Peppercorn A1 - 60163 "Tornado" on "The Northern Belle: Settle & Carlisle Special" returning from Carlisle to Coventry leaving Hellifield for Preston.

LMS Royal Scot class 46115 "Scots Guardsman"192 views10/12/2021 - The low winter sun shadowing Class 47 - 47804 & LMS Royal Scot class 46115 "Scots Guardsman" in the goods loop at Hellifield on 5Z19 - a ECS movement from Carnforth to York for the next days running from York to Edinburgh.

LMS Stanier Jubilee - 45690 "Leander" SR Battle of Britain class 34067 "Tangmere"192 views29/01/2022 - LMS Stanier Jubilee - 45690 "Leander" pilots SR Pacific Battle of Britain class - 34067 "Tangmere" approaching Ais Gill Summit on the "Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express" from Carlisle as far as Preston heading for London Euston.

SR Pacific - 35018 "British India Line" 192 views14/06/2022 - SR Pacific - 35018 "British India Line" on todays Dalesman to Carlisle from Lancaster via the S & C, captured leaving Whalley at the back of the new housing estate at Barrow.

SR Pacific - 35018 "British India Line" 192 views14/06/2022 - Returning SR Pacific - 35018 "British India Line" on the returning Dalesman at Vicarage Lane Wilpshire.

LMS Royal Scot class 46115 "Scots Guardsman"192 views02/10/2022 - A late running "Lune Rivers Trust" from Carnforth to York with LMS Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman" watering at Hellifield in the up Goods Loop.

Peckett 2003/1941 ‘John Blenkinsop’192 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.

192 views16/02/2023 - LMS Black 5 - 44932 on 5Z64 - ECS movement from Hull to Carnforth after filming duties taking on water at Hellifield Goods loop.

192 viewsHughes 2-6-0 Crab - 42851 arriving at the south end of Hellifield Sation with a parcels train from Skipton direction past WD 90595 in the down goods loop

LMS Stanier Jubilee - 45699 as 45627 "Sierra Leone", Stanier Black 5 - 44932192 views16/04/2024 - 45627 being dragged along the down goods loop.

SR Pacific BoB Class - 34067 "Tangmere"192 views24/08/2024 - BoB class 34067 "Tangmere" approaching Settle Junction with the Cumbrian Mountain Express returning from Carlisle to Crewe.