Thomas

Always a smile at anytime of the day from the staff at Knaresborough station.

Tom

Springs Branch,Wigan ADRC96713 with 16t's lurking in the background.

Tom.

The sad burned out remains of the  signalbox at the entrance to Horwich loco works, 1986.

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

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

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.

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

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.

York, 10 September 1974, 09.40 Edinburgh-Bristol

Springs Branch, 8 August 1991

D1826, Clapham Jct., 1968

Tom

20058 / 20087 loading MGR's at Bickershaw colliery for Fiddlers Ferry, 17 March 1987.

Tom

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

Class 47's awaiting their fate

47011 at Crewe, July 1987

47191 / 47486, other numbers not recorded, at Springs Branch March 1989

Tom

Three of the replicas from the Rainhill trials at Bold colliery in 1980.

Rocket

Sans Pareil

Novelty

Tom

 Wigan NW top yard in the late 1960's.

Tom

Four from an open day at Carnforth in August 1974.

Tom

The Queen at Windsor today.

Tom

York 1963

Tom

A few class 60's at Springs Branch in 1992/3 before the local collieries closed.

Tom

A couple of Ravenglass & Eskdale locos.

Douglas Ferreira ( diesel hydraulic )

River Irt

Tom

A couple of 47's

Bold colliery, May 1980

Crewe, July 1987

and what locomotives should look like.......

Bold colliery, May 1980

Tom

67017 at Bristol TM, April 2009

67017 a year later at Warrington with a Merseyrail 507, May 2010

Tom

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

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

Back to the more mundane, three of a kind.

25211 / 316 / 266,  27 September 1985

40137 / 287 / 40035,  31 March 1974

Tom

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