For Steam Locomotive Lovers

[Not Now Kato]

Just a few snaps.  It's not just about big fast and famous locomotives like The Flying Scotsman, Tank Engines like the Class 4T have a beauty all their own
 
Here's the preserved 80080, still running.
 

 
A right cosy place to work
 

 

 

 

[BobG]

That firsts pic, Kato, is an absolutely belting composition. Stunning in fact. Is it Keighley? I shall be on the GWR again in a cuple of weeks

BobG

[drfc1951]

It looks like Keighley,I shall be on Flying Scotsman on Thursday looking forward to that.

[wilts rover]

No it's not Keighley, to much countryside around the station. According to google the Red Rose Diner runs on the East Lancs Railway, so its one of the stations on there - and its certainly not Bury!

[yarix]

 Rawtenstall on the East Lancs railway ?

[glosterred]

1924 Empire Exhibition - for you steam buffs

[Not Now Kato]

Thanks for the kind words Bob, appreciated.    It was a Father's Day present from my eldest Son and included a meal in the 1st Class dining car.  Highly recomended 

[Not Now Kato]

 Rawtenstall on the East Lancs railway ?

Spot on yarix    The trip runs from Bury to Rawtenstall.

[niteowler]

Whilst not professing to being a train Buff, you have to admire the design and engineering that went into one of these beasts ! A heritage for Doncaster to be proud of  in producing its share of locomotives. It was a sight to see when the hooter went off for knock off at the Plant Works in Hexthorpe where they were made, to see everybody streaming over Hexthorpe Bridge on push bikes. It reminded me of an  ants nest ! Brilliant photos by the way Kato.

[podrover73]

1924 Empire Exhibition - for you steam buffs

Hi Glosterred,

my grandad was also at the Empire exhibition at Wembley and went with the Flying Scotsman , he is the one on the far left of this picture

[LongbridgeMGRover]

Nice pics. My spotting days started in 68, but I still love steam. Last memories of steam in Donny are coal trains on the South Yorkshire Joint going under Cantley Bridge, and then in the early 70s the surviving colliery engines.

 

[BobG]

I remember seeing those steam trains under Cantley Bridge Longbridge. I always assumed they were going to and from Armthorpe and Markham Main - but that was only ever a guess! I suppose the line must be dead and buried now?

I've never been to the East Lancs. Bloody stupid I know!

BobG

[Donnywolf]

No that Line is still there and goes past Armthorpe on its very western edge and goes over the road *** at Sainsburys at the edge of Edenthorpe

It passes over the road again between Kirk Sandall and Clay Lane before joining the Donny to Hull / Cleethorpes line around Long Sandall

*** I actually COULD count the number of Locos I have ever seen going over that bridge on one hand even given my age !

[LongbridgeMGRover]

That line holds a special interest for me as I went to Ellers High School for two years, 68-70, next to this railway.
There used to be a constant flow of coal and coal empties in both directions strangely. Coal was carried to Scunthorpe and Immingham to the north as well as to power stations in Notts. You would see classes 31, 37, 47 and occasionally 08 on the line in those days.
There is little traffic now I guess, but that might have changed had Richard Bransons earlier proposal for a High Speed line come to fruition which would have seen this become a double track main line bypassing Doncaster and its busy junctions and a new station on Armthorpe Road served by TGVs!!!

[glosterred]

PR73 my grand father is 4th left as you look at the picture.

[podrover73]

PR73 my grand father is 4th left as you look at the picture.

you must be very proud of him as I am of my grandad. Amazing that they probably knew each other and we are sharing their pictures here today.

[Donnywolf]

There is little traffic now I guess, but that might have changed had Richard Bransons earlier proposal for a High Speed line come to fruition which would have seen this become a double track main line bypassing Doncaster and its busy junctions and a new station on Armthorpe Road served by TGVs!!!

That WAS forward thinking ... ideal for Stade de France Montpellier etc when they come (eventually) to play Donny Knights

[Not Now Kato]

I remember seeing those steam trains under Cantley Bridge Longbridge. I always assumed they were going to and from Armthorpe and Markham Main - but that was only ever a guess! I suppose the line must be dead and buried now?

I've never been to the East Lancs. Bloody stupid I know!

BobG

As Woolfie says Bob, the line is still very much in use carrying heavy freight.  Here's where it splits from the double track into Doncaster, (Lincoln/Goods line), at Bessacarr....
 

 

[BobG]

When I was a youngster our house backed on to the Lincoln Line - the GN/GE Joint. Bloody wonderful for seeing trains. For the first few years we lived there in the mid 60's the old crossing keeper was still in his cottage and we could natter with him while watching the train indicator repeaters on the wall of his house!  Hundreds and hundreds of coal trains every single day except Sundays. Lots of other freight. Local passengere stuff and even, when the main line was being maintained, Deltics on a diversion. But the best thing of all was the time, at the start of the summer holidays when a Class 31 pulled up at the signal and out of the cab window leaned the guy who cleaned the windows on our house. He moonlighted as a window cleaner for years and years. When he said 'Wanna trip to March Yard?' I couldn't run home fast enough to get permission. Awesome. We got back at some silly o'clock in the morning but I'd been all the way there and all the way back in the cab of a 'Brush 2'. They didn't have much in the way of suspension those things...

BobG

[LongbridgeMGRover]

There is little traffic now I guess, but that might have changed had Richard Bransons earlier proposal for a High Speed line come to fruition which would have seen this become a double track main line bypassing Doncaster and its busy junctions and a new station on Armthorpe Road served by TGVs!!!

That WAS forward thinking ... ideal for Stade de France Montpellier etc when they come (eventually) to play Donny Knights

.....almost as forward thinking as the Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Railways building a platform and footings for a passenger station at what became York Rd Goods Depot.
I can imagine trainloads of Hull KR fans catching the train to Tattersfield Central!
And had the more recent GNER fulfilled its intention of a Doncaster Parkway station that would have been very handy for the Keepmoat.

[LongbridgeMGRover]

.....and Bob G, what a great day out. Makes my little cab rides on EM1 electrics around Sheffield Victoria seem quite boring!!

[BobG]

But EM1's have quite a bit more street cred than a Brush 2 Longbridge!

Cheers

BobG