rannorgana

A number of the Foxline Scenes from the Past series were been obtained a few years back, and have been extremely useful in providing much needed photographic evidence of the buildings and track formations in years gone by

 

  #3  - Manchester Railway Termini

  #8  - Railways in and around the Manchester Suburbs

  #16 - The Midland Route from Manchester - Part One Central to New Mills

  #48 - Manchester's Central Station and the Great Northern Railway Goods Warehouse

 

  All authored by E M Johnson

 

also

 

Kestrel Railway Books

 

    Liverpool & Manchester  2: Cheshire Lines

 

Author Bob Pixton

 

Ron

If you go back I did say that I did not have the time to read the whole thread and that If it hasn't been mentioned before could also be read as have you already got?

I have #16 to hand and #3 on the way.

Also good reading are

The LMS & LNER in Manchester by R.E Rose

Great Northern Railway Engine sheds Volume 3. Yorkshire and Lancashire

I don't know if you've got these books or not, I'm just letting you know that there is information in them.

no need to bite my head off for not spending the time to read all 50+ pages of this thread.

If it hasn't been mentioned before(only just seen this thread) Scenes from the past 16 (part 1) Manchester Central to New Mills by E.M. Johnson has a large section devoted to Manchester Central.

Lest we froget as well: Flying Scotsman, Coronation (Duchess of Hamilton Really, but let's gloss over that one), and King George V all went to America on special tours, and that Pendennis castle ended up in Australia.

 

GWR Dean Goods(?) 0-6-0s and GWR 2-6-0s both ended up in france in WW1, and a large number of the 0-6-0s went back in WW2.

 

I recall hearing the story of one engine (a Dean goods I think) that went to france in both WW1 & WW2, was captured by the germans in the latter, captured by the Russians from them used for a long time, repatriated and then shipped to China! It may even have been brought back by the preservation movement, I cant remember that far

Don't forget that Flying Scotsman has been down under too!

RODs ran in France, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq during WW1. After the war, some were sold to Australia and China.

 

LMS 8Fs went to Egypt, Iran, Italy and Palestine (later Israel). Some were later sold to Turkey and Iraq. A few also ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic.

 

WD Austerity 2-8-0s went to France and the Netherlands,. Some later went to Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Sweden.

 

Not forgetting that Kestrel went to Russia.

 

Cheers

David

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Here we go:

 

 

And some British built. C30 class tank (Beyer Peacock) and rebuilt C30 tank into a tender engine (Beyer Peacock/Everleigh Workshops).

 

 

Bit dodgy, as mentioned they were taken on my phone

 

EDIT: Pictures failed again, so I'll post them here later, although they are in my gallery:http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/2280-dorrigo-steam-railway-and-museum/

There's an AD60 there too

If I remember correctly, 20 and 24 are at Dorrigo, and 23 is the one owned by the RVR. #20 is unique being the only surviving 8K/ROD built by North British. I have (low quality phone photos) somewhere that I'll dig out of the RODs at Dorrigo last year.

 

As well as the RODs, J&A Brown bought several other engines over from England, including 'The Major', a Mersy Railway 0-6-4T (currently down at the RTM), and various others which have just slipped my memory.

 

The RTM also has a 15"(?) Hunslet 0-6-0, and there are various clones around as well.

Even more reason to go and see them - shame you can only see them from outside the property.

Even better NZZA 800 is supposed to be at Dorrigo as well!

There's a few of Robinson's GCR 8K/O4 2-8-0's here in Austraila.

They were brought out here to work the coal mine lines in NSW at some point and now they are just sitting in a Private museum at Dorrigo rusting away as far as I know.