 Most viewed - Steam Locomotives at Hellifield Station in the period 1961 / 1962 / 1963 |
Stanier 2-6-0 Mogul - 42947265 views1962 - Stanier Mogul 2-6-0 42947 waits in Hellifield down goods loop with a freight waiting for the signal for the off to head North. Quite a rare sighting for this engine here being far from home,
G Robinson.
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LMS Hughes Crab 42729, BR STD 72005 "Clan MacGregor" 264 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 Stanier Jubilee - 45556 "Nova Scotia" 263 viewsLMS Jubilee - 45556 "Nova Scotia" heading north out of Hellifield station past the engine sheds towards Settle Junction.
G Robinson
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 44828262 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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Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899262 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 Fowler 4F 0-6-0 44335261 viewsThis freight must have been a regular working as similar picture with another 4F
Here LMS Fowler 4F 0-6-0 44335 from Stourton Shed at rest at Hellifield waiting for the pathway North.
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LMS Stanier Jubilee - 45717 "Dauntless" 261 viewsLMS Jubilee - 45717 "Dauntless" coming off its train at Hellifield and heading up the Blackburn Branch before running back to resting in the down goods loop line.
Fresh engine waiting on the main line waiting to back onto the coaching stock.
G Robinson.
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LMS Ivatt 2-6-0 Mogul - 43115260 viewsProbably 1961 - Lancaster Green Ayre ( 24J ) allocated LMS Ivatt 2-6-0 Mogul - 43115 leaving Hellifield on a express passenger service probably to Leeds from Morcambe.
G Robinson.
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Fowler 4f 0-6-0 - 44149 260 viewsLMS Fowler 0-6-0 4F - 44149 having a spin at Hellifield.
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45232260 viewsProbably a Bolton engine at the time this was taken. LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45232 on shed at Hellifield
G Robinson
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LMS Royal Scot Class - 46132 "The Kings Regiment Liverpool" 260 viewsLMS Royal Scot Class - 46132 "The Kings Regiment Liverpool" leaving Hellifield heading south on 1M28 ?
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LMS Ivatt class 2 - 46452259 viewsLMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 - 46452 just taking on water in the up goods loop at Hellifield station
G Robinson
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Fowler 4f 0-6-0 - 44149 258 viewsFowler 4f 0-6-0 - 44149 arriving from the north at Hellifield with a mixed freight train
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LMS Hughes 2-6-0 Crab - 42702 257 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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WD 2-8-0 90595257 viewsLMS Crab 42851 arriving at Hellifield from the south past Hellifield south junction signal box with a parcels service. WD 2-8-0 90595 was positioning around the station after shunted a soda ash mineral train into the sidings. Back in the early 1960`s the platform extended up to the signal box.
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LMS Hughes crab - 42928257 viewsLMS Hughes crab - 42928 waits to head north from the now filled in middle platform at Hellifield with a short parcels train.
G Robinson
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