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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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LMS Stanier Jubilee - 45596 "Bahamas"332 views26/04/2022 - LMS Stanier Jubilee - 45596 "Bahamas" on 5Z38 from K & WVR to Carnforth passing through Hellifield.
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Sentinel 9373/1947 ‘St Monans’332 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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L & Y 0-6-0 Tender Engine -52044 (957) ,L & Y Class 27 0-6-0 Tender Engine 52322 (1300)332 views15/10/2022 - Saturday - L & Y 0-6-0 Tender Engine -52044 (957) ,L & Y Class 27 0-6-0 Tender Engine 52322 (1300) running around their train at Rawtenstall to taken out the 13.30 service back to Bury and onto Heywood.
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Class 25 - L & Y 0-6-0 Tender Engine -52044 (957) 332 views16/10/2022 - Sunday - Class 25 - L & Y 0-6-0 Tender Engine -52044 (957) returns from Rawtenstall with the 13,30 service to Bury and Heywood.
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LMS Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman"332 views6 - Service train passes SG on a north bound service.
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LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45407 "Lancashire Fusilier"332 views10/04/2024 - Running into Rishton Station in wind and heavy rain - LMS Stanier Black 5 - 45407 "Lancashire Fusilier" on 5Z47 from the East Lancs Railway to Carnforth with empty coaching stock (somewhere hidden behind the steam)
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331 views24/07/2010 - 6233 "Duchess of Sutherland"rushes towards Pleasington station in very poor drizzly conditions with a CME heading for Liverpool

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331 views"Furness No 20" top & tailed with 30585 -Beattie Wells tank heads away towards Quorn & Woodhouse station

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331 views"Planet No9" replica reverses empty back along the track towards Loughborough

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331 viewsClose up of 60163 "Tornado" at Kinchley Lane
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LMS 4-6-0 Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman"331 views07/02/09 - 46115 "Scots Guardsman"

Sat 07-Feb THE CUMBRIAN FELLSMAN
Manchester Victoria-Carlisle (WCRC)
46115: Manchester-Hellifield-Settle-Carlisle- Shap-Carnforth-Settle-Hellifield
[Steam section was Hellifield to Carlisle and return via Settle not Shap]
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331 viewsLMS Jinty - 47406 under restoration in the sheds at Loughborough

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331 viewsNER 4-4-0 No 1621

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331 viewsD49 - 246 "Morayshire" besides the River Dee heads towards Carrog

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331 viewsDukedog 9017 with its load working nicely towards Carrog

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331 viewsIan Rileys BR std 4 - 76079 complete with "Pocket Rocket" headboard by which it is affectionately known
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