Loose_Grip/Pete's photos

Dinting Railway Centre. LMS Jubilee 4-6-0 5596 Bahamas gives steam footplate rides in the shed yard, Autumn 1969. Dinting station can be seen in the background & the Great Central Railway Woodhead route to Sheffield Victoria runs left to right behind the embankment. The centre closed some years ago and most of the preserved engines & artifacts moved to Ingrow on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

Dinting Station British Railways. LNER EM2 electric E26055, Prometheus, on a Sheffield to Manchester passenger train on the Woodhead route waits at the west end of the platform, Autumn 1969. The crew wait for the "rightaway" to Manchester Piccadilly in the weak sunshine. Despite being a modern electrified railway the Woodhead closed completely in 1981. One nameplate from this engine was sold in December 2002 for £10200. The nameplate is not obvious in this view but the small oval 1953 Gorton Works, Manchester, maker's plate can be seen on the cabside. The rail glimpsed in the bottom left is the line to Glossop. The current limit of the truncated Great Central/LNER Woodhead route is to the east of Dinting.

Bolton steam shed, Stanier 8F 48652, 8th June 1968. The engine is fitted with a small buffer beam snow plough. Two Drewry diesel shunters including D2234 alongside. The signals on the far left are on the Manchester to Bolton line.

British Railways Standard 2MT 78019 in Woodhams Barry scrap yard in July 1970. Now to be found restored and in steam pulling trains on the Great Central Railway Loughborough

Bradford Trolley bus 782, registration CBX912, en route to Clayton Spring 1969. An empty street scene close to Bradford city centre. I have only just noticed that there is a second trolleybus in this view - extreme left. I was walking between Bradford Exchange and Foster Square stations en route from Sheffield to Keighley when I took the photograph. I spy a Ford Corsair taxi tucked in behind the trolleybus. Adams Best Butter is now in a carton pack, you know?

French steam SNCF 141-TD-740 on a special passenger train at Meymac station. 141-TD-740 was built in 1932 by la Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'Est for suburban services in Paris. It was later transferred to the Western Region & worked out of Gare Saint-Lazare until electrification in 1967. Withdrawn from SNCF in 1968 it was chosen for preservation at the Mulhouse Railway Museum but after languishing for 14 years out in the open it was deemed irreparable and was sold. C.F.T.L.P., Chemin de Fer Touristique Limousin - Périgord, purchased the engine in 1982 and it was restored to working order. It was classified as a "monuments historiques au titre de la préservation du patrimoine industriel" by ministerial decree in 1987. The CFTLP still run special trains in SW France the next being 23rd/24th June - see: www.trainvapeur.com/programmes/programme.htm for details.

Kicking the railings at the end of the prom.

I was firing LNER B1 4-6-0 61264 for only the second time & this was the first time I had fired any engine on the TPO at the Winter Steam Gala. We had been held at the Advanced Starter but by this time we were cracking along. The photo obviously was not taken by me.

Bangor railway Station, North Wales. Diesel Class 24 5039 on a west-bound sheeted freight waits on the signal while 5030 shunts a parcels train past the London & North Western Railway signal box at Whit 1973. The semaphore signals are still active but the platform-end water tank had just been felled. The remains can be seen to the left of the railwayman. Bangor station is located between two tunnels, the one seen here takes the line westwards towards Holyhead.