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410 viewsPicture of myself taken by James from reverse positions
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410 viewsGresley A4 Pacific,60009 ‘Union of South Africa’ at Irewell vale station on the Dining train returning from rawtenstall, tender first.
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80080410 viewsBR Std tank 80080 arriving at Irwell Vale
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410 viewsBlack 4 45407 banking tender first at the rear of the 9.30 service from Bury to Rawtenstall captured at Burrs country park at the end of a Hail & lightning thunder storm.
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410 views2-10-0 9F 92214 "Central Star" facing north, waits to pull out the 11:15 Superheroes train down from Rothley.
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46233 "Duchess of Sutherland"410 views18/07/2015 - 46233 "Duchess of Sutherland" dashes south along the WCML approaching Bilsborrow with a returning CME to Liverpool and Crewe.
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LMS 4-6-0 Royal Scot class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman"410 views26/08/2015 - LMS 4-6-0 Royal Scot class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman" - returns with the last "Fellsman" of the season seen leaving Clitheroe behind approaching Standen Hey foot crossing.
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410 viewsBagnall "Princess" returns along the Riversway straight with the 10.15 freight with "No 6" banking.
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410 views"Princess" and "No6" banking out the 12.15 service pulled by "Courageous"
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410 views14/09/2015 - An attempt to get the Diesel Prototype back to its place of manufacture 60 years earlier at the English Electric Works which was at Strand Road.
Earlier in the day -"Courageous" and "Princess" where used for the first time to move the Lindley Oil tankers down the line to the processing works and are now being used to top & tail the Deltic back down to Strand Road.
Here "Courageous" pulls Deltic onto the swing bridge tailed by "Princess"
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SR 4-6-2 Pacific - 34053 "Sir Keith Park"410 viewsFriday 29/01/2016 - SR 4-6-2 Pacific - 34053 "Sir Keith Park" again from Woodthorpe on 2A23 - 13.00 from Loughborough to Leicester.
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GWR 2-6-0 6990 "Witherslack Hall"410 viewsSaturday - 30/01/2016 - GWR 2-6-0 6990 "Witherslack Hall" at Woodthorpe with 2A05 - 09.45 service to Leicester.
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6229 "Duchess of Hamilton" 410 viewsInside the cab of 6229 "Duchess of Hamilton"
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SECR 'D' class No.737410 viewsSECR 'D' class No.737

The elaborate livery on this locomotive (built in 1901) was created to help give the newly formed South Eastern and Chatham Railway a positive image. Wainwright's 'D' class was designed for express trains, but was later used on branch lines in the South East of England until it was withdrawn in 1956.
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