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chaz

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68095 at Edinburgh St. Margarets shed 16 June 1963:

 

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By the end of 1966, 68095 had made its way south to Lancashire and was at the premises of Helical Springs Ltd. in Lytham, twixt Blackpool & Preston, where it was intended to establish a railway museum.

I helped with some of the initial "muck-scraping" in those early days and took this photo' on a very murky day in December of that year.

 

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Yes, Graham, 68095 had an interesting time after being withdrawn. Incidentally, the Wikipedia entry for the NBR 'G' class says that 68095 was bought by J.Morris  "straight out of traffic at St Margaret's Shed, Edinburgh". This is wrong - it made it to a scrapyard in Shettleston before it was purchased - I saw it there in August 1966.

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Two from Fort Steel just down the road from me:

 

This one starred in Shanghai Noon, and would you believe is pulling a Mk1 coach?

 

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Sorry about the quality, I horribly over-exposed them...

 

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And I think this was used in the coal mine in Kimberley. I believe it ran on compressed air.

 

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A railway that I have not seen posted before is the fifteen inch gauge Heatherslaw Light Railway in Northumberland. Running for 6.4 kilometers between the villages of Heatherslaw and Etal, this line uses a steam loco named Bunty shown in the picture on the turntable. It is a tank engine with a tender. I think the tender is somewhere for the driver to sit, and houses a compressor for the air brakes. 

 

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CPR Class N2b 2-8-0 #3716 at Summerland, BC May 28, 2006:

 

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CPR Class  H1b Hudson (but not Royal Hudson!) 4-6-4 #2816 at Port Moody, BC June 29, 2008:

 

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And here's a real loco from a sensible side of the country!!!!!!!!!

 

As Olddudders pointed out, I haven't told people what they're looking at (my apologies - a Senior moment!). This picture and the following one are both of the B12 8572 running on the North Norfolk Railway on 26th June 2013

 

Edit - Sorry, can't even read the number correctly. Dementia, here I come!!!!!!!!

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Here's a picture of Oliver Cromwell heading The Norfolkman just South of Stansted Mountfitchet as it heads towards London Liverpool Street from Norwich on 2nd July 2011.

 

 

In case anyone notices there's no high intensity headlight - it's amazing what you can do with Photoshop!

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