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LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee - 45597 "Barbados" 327 views17/08/1963 - LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee - 45597 "Barbados" having just come off Ribblehead Viaduct and now running through the station heading south towards Settle.
G Robinson.

LMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee Class - 45626 "Seychelles"327 viewsLMS Stanier 4-6-0 Jubilee Class - 45626 "Seychelles" cresting the summit at Ais Gill heading south towards Settle Junction with an express passenger service.
G Robinson

LMS Stanier 2-8-0 8f - 48253327 viewsLMS Stanier 8f - 48253 on an express fitted freight heading north about to pass under the A65, a mile out of Hellifield
G Robinson

BR STD Class 5 4-6-0 - 73098327 views18/07/1964 - BR STD Class 5 4-6-0 - 73098 near the end of the accent to Ais Gill summit with an express passenger service heading south.
G Robinson

BR STD 9F 2-10-0 92012327 viewsBR STD 9F 2-10-0 92012 working hard up the incline to the summit of Ais Gill with a loaded Long Meg mineral train for Widnes.
G Robinson.

BR STD 9F 2-10-0 92076327 viewsClose up of BR STD 9F 2-10-0 92076 heading north passing Ais Gill summit with a load of empty Long Meg mineral wagons.
G Robinson.

GWR 4-6-0 "Saint Class " 2999 "Lady of Legend"327 viewsGWR 4-6-0 "Saint Class " 2999 "Lady of Legend" coasting down Eardington bank with the 14.30 service from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster

327 views05/06/2021- DMU rounding Kinchley Lane curve with 2G10 - 10.20 service off Quorn stopping at Swithland to let steam service pass.

0-4-0T steam locomotive, NER class H "1310"327 views04/09/2021 - 0-4-0T steam locomotive, NER class H "1310" at Park Halt running around the train.

LNER A3 4-6-2- pacific - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" 327 views18/12/2021 - LNER A3 - 60103 "Flying Scotsman" runs past into Selside heading for Carlisle from Hellifield

Grant Richie 0-4-0 - 272/1894327 viewsGrant Richie 0-4-0 - 272/1894 having piloted FR 20 back on the 12.00 service ruturning to the Riversway Station

LMS Royal Scot class 46115 "Scots Guardsman"327 views02/10/2022 - A late running "Lune Rivers Trust" from Carnforth to York with LMS Royal Scot Class - 46115 "Scots Guardsman" leaving Hellifield behind.

Peckett 2003/1941 ‘John Blenkinsop’327 viewsThe locomotive was supplied to the Ministry of Supply, used at first in Swynnerton Royal Ordnance factory. It moved to the Royal Ordnance factory at Salwick, later the UK Atomic Energy Authority and finally BNFL.

It was a standby loco with two Hudswell diesels doing much of the work so it remained in good condition.
It went to the Middleton Railway in 1972 and was in use for 18 years.
Since 1990 the locomotive has been out of use and moved to RSR to join the two Salwick diesels ‘Mighty Atom‘ and ‘Sparky‘ in 2015 (Jan 28) for display in the museum.

The locomotive is on loan from The Middleton Railway, Hunslet, Leeds, being jointly owned by Mrs Sheila Bye and the Middleton Railway Trust Ltd.

The loco was named after John Blenkinsop (1783-1831) who was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive. In addition to managing the Middleton Collieries, in the 1820s John Blenkinsop was the consulting engineer for Sir John Lister Kaye of Denby Grange, owner of Caphouse Colliery. Also, as a qualified “Viewer”, he was hired by various other colliery owners to examine their collieries and report on such vital matters as the expected future production of a pit, as well as to make suggestions as to how its operation and production could be improved. Blenkinsop died in Leeds in 1831.

Avonside 1568/1909 ‘Lucy’327 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.

L & Y Pug 0-4-0 ST No.19 in disguise as 51241327 views15/10/2022 - Saturday - L & Y Pug 0-4-0 ST No.19 in disguise as 51241 shunting trucks in Ramsbottom goods sidings.