Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: me

GCR Loughborough. British Railways 2MT 2-6-0 78019 taking water.

Great Central Railway. Time for tea but watch that steam pressure gauge, it's close to the "red line". Probably time to get the injector on before the driver of British Railways Standard 2 78019 closes the regulator by the last underbridge before Quorn station. The vacuum gauge, top left, shows a good 21" of mercury &, as it's 15th May, no need for steam heat so the small gauge is on zero psi - the steam valve (brass knob to the right projecting through the front window) is shut. Firing BR Standard 2 78019 on a service train en route to Leicester.

Hitching back from Vienna somewhere near Koblenz I think.

Cabside number Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 44845, built at Crewe in 1944. I am contemplating the last day of steam at Newton Heath & the fact that the filthy cab won't ever be cleaned again. I don't think that left hand window has ever been cleaned! This engine still had 50psi of steam in its boiler but by the end of the day would be cold & ready for its last journey to the scrapyard.

GCR Loughborough shed. LNER O4 2-8-0 63601 footplate from the tender while getting steam up. I am trimming the coal forward before going off shed to pull our service train. The cab layout is simplicity itself & the engine steams on a candle. An excellent engine in many ways but perhaps not first choice for cold, wet winter days. Then again in 1912 when the locomotive was built designers didn't really care too much about the welfare of crews. Note the sheet in the tender - hooked onto the cab roof it's our only protection against the weather when running tender-first. She will be running her last trains for a while this coming weekend, 23rd-24th June 2012, as her boiler certificate runs out then. She did make it to 100 years old in steam though so come to the GCR to ride her for one last time.