 Most viewed - Last Days of the North East Lancs Loop line |
LMS Hughes Crab - 42844618 views22nd September 1962 - LMS Crab - 42844 on the R.C.T.S. (Lancashire & N.W. Branch) "The Mid Lancs Railtour" captured approaching Harwood Rd Railway Bridge heading towards Great Harwood at Rishton.
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607 viewscirca 1963 - LMS Mogel Crab - 42717 running downhill along Railway View (now Hamledon View) into Great Harwood Station with a fitted freight from Blackburn towards Padiham.
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LMS Black 5 - 44949604 views27/07/1964 - LMS Black 5 - 44949 heading out of Great Harwood on Holiday excursion 3T46 to Southport.
G Robinson.
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601 viewsLocal Lower Darwen Engine - Stanier 2-6-4 Tank waits at Great Harwood Station on a holiday special to the coaast.
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LMS Hughes Crab - 42732584 viewsAugust 1962 - LMS Hughes Crab - 42732 runs tender first with a short freight under Unity Bridge at 7.00 am towards the station.
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LMS Hughes 2-6-0 "Crab" - 42729577 views15/04/1963 - LMS Hughes 2-6-0 "Crab" - 42729 -on !Z12 passing Great Harwood west signal box heading for the coast.
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LMS Hughes "Crab" 2-6-0 - 42732 535 views21/06/1962 - Almost fresh out of Horwich works earlier in the month, LMS Hughes "Crab" 2-6-0 42732 prepares to collect carriage stock from the nearby carriage works for 1T95 to Southport
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45377 512 views27/07/1963 -"Return of the Blackpool Belle" - Blackpool LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45377 discharges some its passengers in the late evening at Great Harwood Station with a returning seaside special IP61 before proceeding onto Padiham, Rose Grove, Burnley & Colne.
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LMS Stanier 2-8-0 8F - 48218 511 viewsLMS Stanier 2-8-0 8F - 48218 between Prospect Street and Meadow Street with a works train removing the trackbed.
B/W photograph G Robinson.
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LMS Stanier 2-8-0 8F - 48218 507 viewsAnother view of - LMS Stanier 8F - 48218 and the works train between Prospect Street and Cambridge Street . Note near side track already removed.
b/w photograph G Robinson.
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LMS Stanier Black 5 44728 505 viewsLMS Stanier Black 5 44728 ? leaves Great Harwood station on 1T58, a holiday special to the coast.
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LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Black 5 - 45216 502 views30/07/1964 - LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45216 emerges from Harwood Road bridge heading towards Blackburn at Rishton heading for southport.
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Class 31 Diesel - D5838497 views18/05/1964 - Only picture I have got of a diesel coming through Great Harwood - Class 31, D5838 (A Sheffield loco - Wath) passes into the station heading from the Padiham direction with a special 1X15 detoured around the loop line at Rose Grove, heading for the coast from Yorkshire
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LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee Class - 45684 "Jutland" 481 views28/07/1964 - LMS Stanier Jubilee 45684 "Jutland" passes under Harwood Rd Bridge at Rishton - note that the nameplate has already been removed and "Ringo" written - sign of the times with the Beatles being the top band of the time.
Borrowed from Derby sheds, It had worked a Bloxwich to Blackpool and then failed. Once repaired it was borrowed to work to Colne after which Rose Grove use it on this special from Colne to Lakeside on the 26th and here from Colne to Morecambe on the 28th.
The engine was withdrawn from service 2 months later and scrapped.
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