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LMS Fowler 4F 0-6-0 44335263 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.

LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45232263 viewsProbably a Bolton engine at the time this was taken. LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45232 on shed at Hellifield
G Robinson

LMS Royal Scot Class - 46132 "The Kings Regiment Liverpool" 263 viewsLMS Royal Scot Class - 46132 "The Kings Regiment Liverpool" leaving Hellifield heading south on 1M28 ?

BR STD 9F 2-10-0 92233263 viewsBR STD 9F 2-10-0 92233 heading through Settle station with a Long Meg Mineral train for Widnes
G Robinson.

LNER A3 4-6-2- pacific - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" 263 views18/12/2021 - The sun glints off LNER A3 - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" as its passes Railway Cottages near Selside heading for Carlisle in near perfect conditions.

Avonside 1568/1909 ‘Lucy’263 viewsLucy was built by the Avonside Engine Company at Bristol in 1909 and delivered to the Hutchinson Estate & Dock Co. Ltd. at Widnes. She was one of three class B3 0-6-0STs supplied having 14″ x 22″ cylinders and 3′ 3″ driving wheels, a type so familiar for so long in Liverpool’s dockland. They were named ‘Gertrude’, ‘Lucy’, and ‘Mary’ and dated from 1906, 1909 and 1913 respectively, and were named after the daughters of John Hutchinson, one of the founders of the Widnes chemical industry.

The engine ‘Lucy’ spent it’s entire working life on the Widnes dock system.
It was dismantled in August 1952 and sent to the Hunslet Engine Co. for overhaul. One year later, she returned to work very smartly painted green with yellow lining.

Lucy was retired in January 1971 and was purchased by the Liverpool Locomotive Preservation Group in February 1972 and stored together with ‘Efficient’ in a dockside engine shed at Seacombe. She was transferred to Steamport Southport on 1st August 1973, but briefly returned across the Mersey in July 1978 to take charge of the Birkenhead docker No.4 railtour. Once again in the early 1980’s, Lucy took retirement, and remains a static exhibit.

Lucy moved to Preston with the rest of the stock from Southport, and arrived in Preston on 27th February 1999. Recently given a new coat of paint for exhibition in the museum, the long term plan is to return Lucy to working condition once more when time and materials become available.

SR Merchant Navy class Pacific - 35018 "British India Line" 263 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

SR Pacific - 4 6 2 - Western County Class -34092 "City of Wells"263 views02/01/2023 - SR Pacific - 4 6 2 - Western County Class -34092 "City of Wells" arriving at Ramsbottom on the r the 12.25 to Rawtenstall from Heywood = note the head board code has changed.

LMS Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman"263 views6 - Service train passes SG on a north bound service.

LMS Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman"263 views7 - SG reverses up the Blackburn Branch from the down goods loop - then pulls forward into the UP goods loop allow other trains to use the main lines and the Dalesman excursion to use the down goods loop. = Diesel comes off and SG then returns to be attached to the Dalesman coaches.

SR Pacific Battle of Britain class - 34067 "Tangmere"263 viewsSR pacific 34067 "Tangmere" heads across Ribblehead Viaduct with the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express.