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Hi, at the moment there is a huge amount of work going on around the Arnside area, affecting the train services.
This is all connected with the bridge there.

Just thought any of our members who are interested in steam trains may like to look at this website. Scroll down to 3rd photo and watch the video

Arnside Station and Viaduct, Cumbria

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Many Thanks, Atarah. That video brings back very happy memories for me of holidays in Grange Over Sands as a kid in the late 50s/early 60s. We used to wait on the footbridge for the trains to pass underneath, and waved to the driver. I can still smell the sulphur as we were clouded in the smoke from the engine.

Happy, happy days!

:):):):):)

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That's the way to travel . thanks .

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Great video .... as we seem to be having an Accy day in K-town ..... cool, damp, drizzle, miserable;):D .... I think I will spend some time watching videos of steam locomotives and drinking Lancaster Bomber.:theband:

Any experts around who can identify the engine?

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This is fun ... I've got lotsa beer and a freezer full of moose; so, if any of you guys are in the neighbourhood, feel free to drop on by:D

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The Duke of Gloucester is preserved and has been running on the East Lancs line recently. It could be that one as it is a Standard 8. I know it has been as far as Barrow which is via the viaduct near Grange. Sad aren't I.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...01270038-1.jpg

Taken at Ramsbottam. It has the Caprotti valve gear.
You can always tell it from the smelly diesels cos it goes chuff chuff.

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I have your address (you told us all) - you never know ;)

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Nice pic ... the loco in the video looks like a Brit.

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Hey .... all are welcome ... and the moose is halal, if anybody cares, killed by an IED.:rolleyes:;):D

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I have met the Duke of Gloucester While I was in Manchester .

This is my photo of the same Locomotive .


Message - Accrington Gallery

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Here is another steam loco ;-


Message - Accrington Gallery

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Great pics, bud. O for the days of trainspotting at Carnforth Junction:D

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A lovely steam train crossed Accrington viaduct this afternoon

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I was walking in the Cemetery on Burnley road when it came past, I didn't get a proper look at it but here are the details below.


Sat 16-Apr THE RED ROSE [Revised Times] (14/04)
Tyseley-Blackburn (TY01) [wcrc]
5043: Tyseley-Crewe-Stockport-Manchester Victoria -Huddersfield-Copy Pit-Blackburn-Crewe-Tyseley
[Revised route via Manchester Victoria not Stockport due to track problem]

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The Duke of Gloucester is a Brit Eric. If you pause the video you can make out three words on the name plate and the middle one is a short one.

It runs all over the mainland UK on the steam tours program.

The Flying Scotsman is due back out on the rails in July. The boiler is just being refitted at the works in Bury on the East Lancs line and it will be running there for a few weeks for trials before it goes back on it's tours.

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Thanks, I did wonder where it was going to

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We all saw it pass the cricket club, a wonderful sight, and everyone stopped to watch! Loads of carriages too!

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Passed by the front of my house while I were in the garden, looked very nice but the people inside what I could see didnt look happy?

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Just for the anoraks - of which I am not one- this is the loco you saw.

GWR 4-6-0 CASTLE
5043 EARL OF MOUNT EDGCUMBE
Built : Swindon March 1936
Original Name : Barbury Castle
Renamed : 1937
Double-Chimney fitted : May 1958
Withdrawn : December 1963
Restored & Mainline Certified : October 2008

I have a photo of it taken at Ramsbottom but it will take too long to delve into my files to find it.

Google it and you will see plenty.