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  1. Always a smile at anytime of the day from the staff at Knaresborough station. Tom
  2. Springs Branch,Wigan ADRC96713 with 16t's lurking in the background. Tom.
  3. The sad burned out remains of the signalbox at the entrance to Horwich loco works, 1986.
  4. 97406 at Springs Branch on 13 August 1985, note step up to bodyside engineroom door and missing covers to horns on the nose. Best of luck with your conversion from 40135. Tom
  5. 47422 leaving Manchester Victoria, August 1987 47202 leaving Penmaenmawr, May 1979 D1965 returning to Crewe on the test train when new in 1965 47355 at Warrington with empties from Fiddlers Ferry Tom
  6. In August 1973 a coal train from Bickershaw colliery derailed at the Springs Branch end of the branch, the colliery engine, Rodney, was sent down to recover the underailed wagons and return them to the colliery, seen here on its return to Bickershaw.
  7. 42954 wcml at Golborne. 40015 at Howe Bridge, Wigan-Manchester Exchange line, waiting to leave for Springs Branch. 25006 backing empties into Golborne colliery. Tom
  8. Manchester Victoria, 20 August 1999. Driver Roy Smith, ex Springs Branch, Southport, loco instructor / inspector and finally a manager on Merseyrail. After retiring returned to driving for a private company. When in the cab as a loco inspector would always want to drive the train, he would drive a herd of cattle if he could. A true gentleman and railwayman , sadly no longer with us. Tom.
  9. York, 10 September 1974, 09.40 Edinburgh-Bristol Springs Branch, 8 August 1991 D1826, Clapham Jct., 1968 Tom
  10. 20058 / 20087 loading MGR's at Bickershaw colliery for Fiddlers Ferry, 17 March 1987. Tom
  11. A class 45 and a couple of class 46;s 45004 at Leeds, 6 June 1975 46005 at York,10 September 1974 46006 at Edge Hill Tom
  12. Class 47's awaiting their fate 47011 at Crewe, July 1987 47191 / 47486, other numbers not recorded, at Springs Branch March 1989 Tom
  13. Three of the replicas from the Rainhill trials at Bold colliery in 1980. Rocket Sans Pareil Novelty Tom
  14. Four from an open day at Carnforth in August 1974. Tom
  15. The Queen at Windsor today. Tom
  16. A few class 60's at Springs Branch in 1992/3 before the local collieries closed. Tom
  17. A couple of Ravenglass & Eskdale locos. Douglas Ferreira ( diesel hydraulic ) River Irt Tom
  18. A couple of 47's Bold colliery, May 1980 Crewe, July 1987 and what locomotives should look like....... Bold colliery, May 1980 Tom
  19. 67017 at Bristol TM, April 2009 67017 a year later at Warrington with a Merseyrail 507, May 2010 Tom
  20. Class 20's loading MGR's at Bickershaw Colliery 20077 / 20120 12 December 1987 20132 / 20084 15 June 1988 20088 / 20187 19 December 1988 Tom
  21. Three from the 1980's 6P82 Warrington-Chorley ROF at Lostock Jct., 21 August 1987 Fiddler Ferry 22 February 1986 20047 / 20194, Liverpool Lime Street, 1 March 1988 Tom
  22. Back to the more mundane, three of a kind. 25211 / 316 / 266, 27 September 1985 40137 / 287 / 40035, 31 March 1974 Tom
  23. 56050 / 56044 Newport, 23 August 1983 56003 near Kenyon Jct., heading towards Manchester, 15 August 1987. 56042 on class 58 type bogies, 13 August 1985. 56012 Springs Branch, 8 April 1991 56085 / 56112 14 May 1984 Tom
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