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[Proto]

My godfather worked for British Rail (he inspected bridges which BR has thousands of apparently) and I've been inside a Deltic.

Mate of my Dad was a foreman at Finsbury Park depot and got me a guided tour of the Deltic prototype.

 

[NorthernDave]

Only just remembered about this
http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t17/t0617c.htm
http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-east-yorkshireman

Sadly, I'm racing today, so it might have been a bit tight, if it was delayed
(& out at parents, in evening, so can't see the return)

Saw that while out on my ride this morning - it went under the bridge at Church Fenton just as I got there (no time to get my phone out, unfortunately). The crew looked a bit warm on the footplate!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Mate of my Dad was a foreman at Finsbury Park depot and got me a guided tour of the Deltic prototype.

Still in the National Railway Museum, at York
http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection...d=1963-80&pageNo=2&cat=diesel&comp=All&ipp=12
On loan, so it states to 'Ribble Steam Railway'
Taken at NRM, Sept 2003 (according to 'date-stamp')

Saw that while out on my ride this morning - it went under the bridge at Church Fenton just as I got there (no time to get my phone out, unfortunately). The crew looked a bit warm on the footplate!

I'll bet they did!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I might head out to see this, after the ParkRun

http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-scarborough-flyer

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I might head out to see this, after the ParkRun
http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-scarborough-flyer

Didn't go
But.... I did photograph this Box, on my travels
Prince Of Wales Colliery Signal Box, by the level crossing on Skinner Lane (Pontefract)

Looking north-west, towards the RaceCourse, & the M62 (jct 32)
The points ran into the back of the Colliery


Looking north-east, towards Monkhill Station
The points were for colliery sidings, where trains could wait for a path, or to be summoned into the Colliery



How it looked, 'in the day'
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pontefractheritagegroup/5973717598

 

[NorthernDave]

I might head out to see this, after the ParkRun

http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-scarborough-flyer

Didn't go
But.... I did photograph this Box, on my travels
Prince Of Wales Colliery, by the level crossing on Skinner Lane (Pontefract)

Looking north-west, towards the RaceCourse, & the M62 (jct 32)
The points ran into the back of the Colliery
View attachment 358755

Looking north-east, towards Monkhill Station
The points were for colliery sidings, where trains could wait for a path, or to be summoned into the Colliery
View attachment 358756


How it looked, 'in the day'
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pontefractheritagegroup/5973717598

I was cycling over the bridge at Church Fenton this morning and saw a plume of steam off to the north of the station, and thought of your post.

So I stopped, and slowly but surely the Flying Scotsman wafted into the station where it stopped to take on water - so I grabbed a few pics

I then rode off and did a loop of the airfield and when I came back through about half an hour later it was gone, but the water tanker and several photographers were still there. - was something else due through?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I was cycling over the bridge at Church Fenton this morning and saw a plume of steam off to the north of the station, and thought of your post.

So I stopped, and slowly but surely the Flying Scotsman wafted into the station where it stopped to take on water - so I grabbed a few pics

View attachment 358759 View attachment 358760

I then ride off and did a loop of the airfield and when I came back through about half an hour later it was gone, but the water tanker and several photographers were still there. - was something else due through?

Nice!!
Surprisingly quiet though!, unless you'd elbowed through everyone?
No personal knowledge of any others today

 

[NorthernDave]

Nice!!
Surprisingly quiet though!, unless you'd elbowed through everyone?
No personal knowledge of any others today

There were a few there taking pics, mainly down on the platforms and on the station footbridge though - another quartet of cyclists stopped on the road bridge and took a few photos.
The train was stood in the station for quite a while (I rode off after about 10 mins and they were showing no sign of being ready to leave) and a couple of guys with pro kit wandered up to where I was stood for a few shots. BTP were there though, so perhaps they were expecting a bigger turnout?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I was cycling over the bridge at Church Fenton this morning and saw a plume of steam off to the north of the station, and thought of your post.

So I stopped, and slowly but surely the Flying Scotsman wafted into the station where it stopped to take on water - so I grabbed a few pics

View attachment 358759 View attachment 358760

I then rode off and did a loop of the airfield and when I came back through about half an hour later it was gone, but the water tanker and several photographers were still there. - was something else due through?

Pedant alert... Flying Scotsman wafted into the station. The engine. The Flying Scotsman was/is a scheduled train service that pre-dates 60103 by some years.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Lovely afternoon in NRM on Friday. Finally, thanks to an Explainer, I understand how the injectors actually work on a steam locomotive.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Rather gob-smackingly, given the subsidence (which must have been evident earlier than closure?), this bridge was in use until 1993
Old photographs; April 2007



http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Castleford Garforth.htm

Over the River Aire (& floodplain) adjacent to 'Barnsdale Road', from Castleford to Peckfield Bar, and HookMoor

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/559819

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I think the Vale of Rheidol should be on this list.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/...uge-railway-journeys-britain-kent-devon-wales
What would you add and what would you take off?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

66 715 'Valour'
Spotted, at Featherstone Station (Oakenshaw Junction, & Pontefract) I didn't know what was due, all that it wasn't a stopping train
Sorry, a 'grab-shot', as it was travelling around 50-55MPH



It was on a biomass run, to a power-station





The name-plate; https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpmarks/3043504282

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Earlier yesterday, before getting into Featherstone

Water Lane
Pontefract
On the Wakefield - Pontefract - Knottingley - Goole line


http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3118869

Dandy Mill was behind me, in the bridge photograph
The embankment can be seen in this picture (bridge off the left of the image)


http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2739714
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101313271-dandy-mill-pontefract-north-ward