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NOVEMBER 2008 BLOCKADE
Eshton Terrace is closed to road vehicles as RVR Committee Member Dean Weaver photographs the brand new Freightliner-liveried Class 66, 66956, slowly hauling a long rake of ballast wagons northwards over Low Moor Level Crossing on 13 November 2008. The UP road has already been lifted and dug out ready for re-ballasting and track relaying.
Photo: W. Briggs
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RVR in the SPOTLIGHT
RVR Committee member, Ken Roberts, aided and abetted by Brian Haworth, enjoys the spotlight at the Association of Community Rail Partnerships awards in Plymouth. RVR’s octogenarian photographer, Ramsgreave & Wilpshire’s “Station Master”, was placed third in the Outstanding Volunteer Contribution category.
Photo: Simon Clarke
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THE LAST RIDE HOME
On 2nd August 1968 “Black 5” 45156 (formerly Ayrshire Yeomanry) waits in the Castle Field loop just north of Low Moor crossing for the Carlisle - Oldham freight to pass before completing the final steam shunt to Clitheroe.
Photo: R Allison
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CASTLE CEMENT TRAFFIC RETURNS TO THE RIBBLE VALLEY LINE
With shiny buffers to match its shiny load, 37401 enjoyed a day out on RV metals on 18 March 2008 when it delivered the brand new cement tankers to Horrocksford prior to the new service commencing.
Running as 6Z50 the venerablemachine cuts a fine sight at Brownhill as it hauls the rake of shiny new tanks towards Horrocksford.
Photo: Michael Ford
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Standard Pacific, 71000, Duke of Gloucester, descends Langho Bank with a steam charter in October 2004.
Photo: B. Haworth
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RVR member, Gordon Wilson, continues watering the flowers as 150222 rolls in with a Manchester - Clitheroe service in July 2004.
Photo: G. Dudley
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Through a break in the sleet, Virgin-liveried Class 57 57305, towing 90006, brings the diverted Euston - Glasgow Central, 1S63, into Blackburn station, on time, on Sunday 2nd February 2003.
Photo: W. Briggs
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An unidentified Class 40 rolls into Blackburn with a summer Saturdays-only Yorkshire - Blackpool North in the early 1970s.
Photo: B. Haworth
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Photographed on 18th May 1998, ex-British Steel Corporation 0-4-0 Diesel Shunter is captured stored, unserviceable, beneath the discharge hopper, which itself has not seen use since the cessation of rail-borne cement traffic in December 1992.
Photo: B. Haworth
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7306, Jeff Tracy, hauling Pendolino set 390037, Virgin Difference, on the 1S40 Euston - Glasgow heads northwards towards Langho Station as 390035, City of Lancaster, hauled by 57308, Tin Tin, on the 1M14 Glasgow - Euston disappears into the distance. The photograph was taken from the safety of the steps leading to the foot-crossing approximately 1/4 mile south of Langho Station on Saturday 21st January2006.
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Class 40, 40103, drifts past Bolton West Jct. with a short train of parcel vans for Red Bank sidings. On the left, the 09:52 Manchester (Vic) - Glasgow/Edinburgh departs - circa 1980.
Photo. J. Matthews
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Virgin (almost!) HST set 43067, with 43122 on the rear, crossing Swanside Viaduct, Downham, on the diverted Penzance to Edinburgh (1S71) on Saturday, 6th March 1999. Langho Driver, Norman Cookson, is at the controls.
Photo: E. Buckley |
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The New Freckleton Street Bridge - a computer - generated artist’s impression.
Photo: Courtesy of Mike Cliffe, Principal Transport Planner, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
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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
Photo: B. Haworth
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In the morning rush hour at Bromley Cross station, local High School pupils pour off 150271, the 08.27 (08.00 ex-Man Vic) Northern service to Clitheroe, on 15 June 2006.
Photo: W. Briggs
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"Tenth Anniversary Celebrations" of the re-opening of the line between Blackburn and Clitheroe in 1994.
Founder RVR Members, David Butterworth, Peter Moore, and the late Ron Birch, with the Town Crier of Clitheroe.
Photo: W. Briggs
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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.
Photo: B. Haworth |
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.
Photo: B. Haworth |
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47770 on 1Z64 Mills Hill - Edinburgh
Special Day Excursion on 18th April 1998
Photo: E. Buckley |
Ramsgreave & Wilpshire Station
late Summer 2001
Photo: K. Roberts |
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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.
Photo: B. Haworth |
D345 works 1Z341 through Clitheroe on 12th July 2003
Photo: Colin Carr
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Ribble Valley Rail News
is published quarterly, at least 24 glossy A5 pages per issue, and is free to members.
Non-members may purchase copies from
Tourist Information Centre, RVBC Offices, Church Walk, Clitheroe, and the Visitor Centre, 3-5 Salford,
Blackburn:
Price £2
Copies may also be obtained from the
RVRNews Editor Bill Briggs
(See right)
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Membership Secretary &
Ribble Valley Rail News Editor:
Bill Briggs, 55 Bank Head Lane, Hoghton, Preston PR5 0AB
Tel : 01254 854474
email: bill.rvrnews@virgin.net
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