This Gallery is under development. The current selection has been assembled from photographs , which also feature in other galleries.
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It is anticipated that many more photographs will become available during the next few months.
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| Updated: 10/09/2009 |
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45407, heads the St. James' Day Tripper on Langho Bank near Billington Cutting
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A rare visitor to RVR metals, Class 52 Western Hydraulic, No. 1015, Western Champion, cuts a fine sight rolling down Langho Bank in what was an experimental livery “Golden Ochre” on 3rd September 2005.
For historians, this locomotive hauled the empty stock working of Pullmans, which formed Sir Winston Churchill’s Funeral Train in 1965.
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Above: Class 60 60029 stands adjacent to Castle Cement Engine Shed awaiting its naming ceremony on 4th July 1998.
The loco was named “CLITHEROE CASTLE”
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For many, the concept of coal traffic conjures up images of wagons loaded with lumps and cobs of coal, the reality of the modern fuel for power stations is a pulverised commodity, which can be clearly seen in transit as 6M45, a diverted MGR service, slogs up Langho bank on 11th May 2003 with class 66, 66225, in charge.
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BR Pacific No. 70013, "Oliver Cromwell" storming Langho Bank on 4 August 2008
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"Oliver Cromwell" heads away from Langho Station on a downhill gradient towards Whalley Viaduct on 10 August 2008
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West Coast Mainline diversions bring the new order of trains to Blackburn during March 2003
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Class 142, 142054, stands in Platform 1 with a Colne service circa 1997.
Note the L&Y Platform Clock featured on thus photo, and reproduced in enlarged form in Gallery 8
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Platforms 2 & 4 before demolition
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View of Blackburn Station from the Guard’s cab on a Santa Special |
Remains of the double track, whose re-instatement is long-awaited, on the approach to Hoddlesden Jct. no longer in-situ
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The Darwen line diverges at Bolton Road Jct., Blackburn. Freckleton Street bridge, in the background, has now been demolished, and replaced by a new one, an architect's drawing being featured in Gallery 1, and the new bridge itself in Gallery 11.
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Entwistle Station now |
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The view looking towards Blackburn from the back cab of a Santa Special passing milepost 20½. The “sandtrap” points can clearly be seen on the approach to Darwen Station.
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View of Darwen Station from the Guard’s cab
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Standard Pacific, 71000, Duke of Gloucester, descends Langho Bank with a steam charter in October 2004.
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An unidentified Class 40 rolls into Blackburn with a summer Saturdays-only Yorkshire - Blackpool North in the early 1970s.
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Black Five and Standard head 1Z40 “The Residential” South up Langho Bank captured passing Mytton Fold Golf Course on 30th June 2001
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Seen here at Preston, the Network Rail “Yellow Peril” track-recording unit, a converted Class 101 DMU, whose data led to the imposition of the ESRs and TSRs on the Ribble Valley Line and, subsequently, the temporary suspension of the Morecambe service.
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On a cold January afternoon in 2008, RVL “celebrity” unit 150149 crosses the picturesque, but rarely photographed, Primrose Viaduct, which carries the line over Standen Brook, just south of Clitheroe.
The 120 ft long viaduct was originally built with seven stone arches and a wooden centre span, which was replaced by three more stone arches in 1870.
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The above photograph of Langho station on the front cover of RVRNews 57 epitimises a country station at this period of time.
In the past, the country station was the focal point of the village it served, but over the years, as road traffic grew and with a certain deadly doctor wielding his closure notices, the traditional country station was lost for ever.
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Old British Railways Signboards feature prominently on this 1974 viewof the South End of the station.
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Duchess (Unknown?) Northbound at Hellifield
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Hellifield Shed :View from the Station |
Posing as a Signalman in Hellifield Box |
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L&Y Bay in 1974 |
First DalesRail to call at Ramsgreave &Wilpshire, Langho, and Whalley reaches Hellifield on 29th May 1994
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Snow Scene at Langho |
Another Snow Scene at Langho |
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Billington Cutting (Caption incomplete) |
With the late afternoon sun glinting on the wagon sides, a class 37 storms through Langho heading 6E73, the coal empties from Horrocksford, during 2000.
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Just two snowmen and the photographer await the next service to Blackburn on a snowy December morning at Langho in 1996
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Ivatt Mogul simmers amongst the ornate iron work at Blackburn Station
circa 1990
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Photographed from Mitton Fold Golf Course Langho, Portabrook liveried Deltic D9016 heads North under a stormy sky in charge of 1Z63 a Birmingham/Carlisle charter on 28 Dec 2003
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A class 153 rolls down Langho bank towards Billington heading the 10-47 Blackburn / Clitheroe working on Sat 19th June 2004
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