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LMS Stanier 8F 2-8-0 - 4853697 viewsLMS Stanier 8F 2-8-0 - 48536 on shed at Hellifield.
G Robinson
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BR STD 4-6-2 Pacific - 4-6-2 - 72005 Clan MacGregor97 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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Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 189997 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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LNER V2 2-6-2 - 4771 "Green Arrow."97 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 Hughes Crab 42729, BR STD 72005 "Clan MacGregor" 96 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 - 42938, 96 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 Stanier Jubilee - 45556 "Nova Scotia" 96 viewsLMS Jubilee - 45556 "Nova Scotia" heading north out of Hellifield station past the engine sheds towards Settle Junction.
G Robinson
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BR Clan 4-6-2 -72002 Clan Campbell 96 viewsBR Pacific -Clan Class -72002 "Clan Campbell" at Hellifield Staion on 1X06 - a Glasgow to Manchester service.
Noted a water tank on the hillside - just like what is used at present
G Robinson
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LMS Stanier Black 596 viewsUnknown LMS Stanier Black 5 running into Hellifield Station heading south with a fitted van freight.
G Robinson
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LMS ROYAL SCOT CLASS - 46115 "SCOTS GUARDSMAN"96 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 Royal Scot Class - 46132 "The Kings Regiment Liverpool" 96 viewsLMS Royal Scot Class - 46132 "The Kings Regiment Liverpool" leaving Hellifield heading south on 1M28 ?
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LMS Hughes 2-6-0 Crab - 42702 95 viewsTaken from Hellifield North signal box - LMS Hughes 2-6-0 Crab - 42702 arrives with an express excursion 1X59 probably from Carlisle ( on a Waverley relief service ? )
Note the express service heading north in the distance and the dead WD in the shed line .
G Robinson.
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LMS Fowler 0-6-0 4F- 4427695 viewsLMS Fowler 0-6-0 4F- 44276 on its own shed spending most of its working life here, finally moving onto Skipton when the shed closed.
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 4482895 viewsTrain Spotters delight ! and me on the platform in a Duffle coat.
Leeds Holbeck Black 5 - 44828 leaves the central platform heading north possibly on a stopping train to Carlisle.
The engine lamp code of the Black 5 in the main platform shows it to be a light engine and looks like it is taking on water, whilst a Stanier tank works in the sidings.
G Robinson
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 4-6-0 45331 , Peak Class 45 - D2595 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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LMS Hughes crab - 4292894 viewsLMS Hughes 2 -6-0 Crab - 42928 pulling out of the centre north platform at Hellifield with a short parcels train heading North.
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