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Personal blog of Steam Galas & Mainline Steam running from around the North of England. Pictures copyright of Author!!
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BR STD 9F 2-10-0 92249292 views18/07/1964 - BR STD 9F 2-10-0 92249 Working its way up the incline to the summit of the S & C, and dragging its load of Long Meg mineral wagons for Widnes
G Robinson,
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LNER A3 4-6-2- pacific - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" 292 views18/12/2021 - Stunning conditions at Selside with the mist rising in the background set against Pen-y-gent as LNER A3 60103 "Flying Scotsman" storms the incline heading for Carlisle from Hellifield.
( I drove back following the line 10 minutes later and the exhaust still hung over the line right down into Horton in Ribblesdale were it merged with the mist.)
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Sentinel 9373/1947 ‘St Monans’292 viewsSt Monans is a 100hp geared four wheel steam locomotive with a vertical boiler and cylinders which was built in 1947 by the Shrewsbury firm of Sentinels Ltd.
It was delivered new to the Hawton Plaster works of what later became British Gypsum Ltd, Newark. Taking it’s name from Andrew Barclay 279 of 1885, it worked here until being displaced by a diesel in 1971.

It was initially sold to a member of the GCR at Loughborough where restoration work was commenced. It was then re-sold and arrived at Southport in October 1979, where work was completed. Another regular performer at Southport, the loco eventually left traffic after the superheater failed in the early 1990s, and hasn’t steamed since. The engine was mov
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SR Merchant Navy class Pacific - 35018 "British India Line" 292 views15/10/2022 - SR Merchant Navy class Pacific - 35018 "British India Line" gets a helpful push from the back on the climb up Whalley Banks approaching Langho station in the rain on a Cumbrian Mountain Express
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L & Y 0-6-0 Tender Engine -52044 (957) ,L & Y Class 27 0-6-0 Tender Engine 52322 (1300)292 views15/10/2022 - Saturday - L & Y 0-6-0 Tender Engine -52044 (957) ,L & Y Class 27 0-6-0 Tender Engine 52322 (1300) leaving Rawtenstall on the 13.30 service back to Bury and onto Heywood.
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291 views30/06/2010 - Black 5 44932 on a loaded ECS test run heads out of Hellifield towards Blackburn

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291 views5/06/2010 - 6233 "Duchess of Sutherland" heads for the coast at Blackpool with the "Flyde Coast Express."Seen here approaching Darkinson Lane, west of Preston

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291 views07/08/2010 - 6201 "Princess Elizabeth" pulls into the goods loop on the WCML at Barton with the "Cumbrian Mountain Express"
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291 views15/09/2010 - Last of the summer "Fellsman" with 5690 "Leander"storming Whalley Banks on the return at Langho station

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291 views15/10/2010 - Castle Class 5043 "Earl of Mount Edgcumbe" heads northup the WCML towards Carnforth with support coach passing Leyland Trucks

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291 viewsMSC 67 waits in the loop at Balm Road

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291 views9F 92214 works back tender first back to Grosmont passing over the brick river bridge at Darnholme.

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291 viewsJ72 69023 marshalling some coaching stock at Grosmont

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291 viewsRobinson 04 class - 63601 drags a mixed freight around the curve approaching Kinchley Lane.

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291 views71000 "Duke of Gloucester" now in the sunshine with the matching green stock rounds the curve heading towards Kinchley Lane.

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