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Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway143 viewsHellifield Shed in the 1960`s when closed for traffic, was used to store a few engines for the then new National Railway Museum in York. My father managed to get a look around this store and managed to get a few photgraphs.
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BR Class Patriot 4-6-0 - 45517 142 views1962 - BR British Railways Steam Locomotive Class Patriot 45517 (Unnamed) waits to out take it load at Hellifield having just arrived from Liverpool earlier in the day
G Robinson
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45330142 viewsLMS Stanier Black 5 - 45330, complete with snow plough runs through Hellifield Station heading north on a freight past the North signal Box (now gone), Looks like a WD in the shed line on the left and engines in steam on the down goods loops and sidings. The coaling tower can just be seen in the centre at the back.
G Robinson.
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BR STD 4-6-2 Pacific - 4-6-2 - 72005 Clan MacGregor142 viewsBR STD 4-6-2- Clan Class - 72005 Clan MacGregor reversing into the central platform at Hellifield for of a local stopper to Carlisle.
G Robinson.
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BR STD 4 2-6-0 - 76081 142 viewsDarwen Shed Engine BR STD 4 2-6-0 - 76081 setting off back to Blackburn on the local stopper.
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LNWR Steam Locomotive 1439 0-4-0ST142 viewsHellifield Shed in the 1960`s when closed for traffic, was used to store a few engines for the then new National Railway Museum in York. My father managed to get a look around this store and managed to get a few photgraphs.
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LMS Caprotti Black 5 - 44757142 viewsCaprotti Black 5 - 44757 at Hellifield about to head south with a freight.
G Robinson
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LMS Stanier Black 5141 viewsUnknown LMS Stanier Black 5 running into Hellifield Station heading south with a fitted van freight.
G Robinson
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LMS Stanier Jubilee Class 45730 "Ocean"141 viewsLMS Stanier Jubilee Class 45730 "Ocean" at Hellifield
G Robinson
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LMS Hughes Crab 42729, BR STD 72005 "Clan MacGregor" 140 viewsA typical Saturday afternoon scene at Hellifield with the train spotters around 72005 "Clan MacGregor" waiting in the centre platform with a local service to Carlisle.
LMS Hughes Crab 42729 piloting an unknown Jubilee waiting to head off to Carlisle with an Express service. Being a local Darwen shed engine, working a Saturday Manchester to Glasgow service via Blackburn and Clitheroe, the pilot coming off here.
(Probably me and my brother leaning against the lamp post - never got any long trousers till I wa
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LMS Hughes Crab 2-6-0 - 42779139 viewsLancaster Green Ayre Crab - 42779 sets off home towards Settle Junction and the Little North western Line from the north centre platform with a short parcels train passing Hellifield North signal box whilst BR Std 73171 arrives heading South with a freight.
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LMS ROYAL SCOT CLASS - 46115 "SCOTS GUARDSMAN"139 views13/02/1965 - LMS ROYAL SCOT CLASS - 46115 "SCOTS GUARDSMAN" ON RCTS - "THE REBUILT SCOT COMMEMORATIVE RAIL TOUR" WATERING AT HELLIFIELD HEADING NORTH TO CARLISLE.
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LMS Hughes Crab 2-6-0 - 42938, 138 viewsLine up of engines in the shed line outside Hellifield shed including unknown 2-8-0 WD , LMS Hughes Crab waiting for duties - 42938, another unknown crab and other engines. Also in the distance another engine working in the sidings at the back of the shed/sand drying plant.
G Robinson
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LMS Fowler 4F - 44208 138 viewsProbably 1961 when it was a Carlisle Kingmoor engine - LMS Fowler 4F - 44208 - runs into Hellifield on a through freight.
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 44904 138 viewsCarnforth Shed LMS Stanier Black 5 - 44904 heads north and towards home on a service to Morcambe from Leeds out of Hellifield station.
G Robinson
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 4-6-0 45331 , Peak Class 45 - D25138 viewsThe times they are a changing -
Probably early 1962 - A LMS Stanier Black 5 - 4-6-0 45331 on a freight is sent into the goods loop to let Peak Class 45 - D25 on 2N71 - a Leeds Morecambe service go through the station.
G Robinson
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