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To read a Summary of the Issue, No.94
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DELTIC ON THE RIBBLE VALLEY LINE
The evening sun highlights the front end of class 55 Deltic 55022, The Royal Scots Grey,as it powers up Langho Bank with a Branch Line Society charter
on Sunday 10 October 2010.
Photo: Brian Haworth
HEAVY HAULAGE AT WHALLEY
A Castle Cement road tanker on the A59 is about to cross Mitton Road Bridgeas an unidentified Freightliner Class 66
heads 6M11, a loaded Heavy-Haul, Hunterson - Fiddlers Ferry coal train
over Whalley Viaductat 12:41 on 28 May 2010
Photo: Simon Clarke
THE FELLSMAN
Almost effortlessly, and with minimal exhaust, ex-LMS “Jubilee”, 5690 Leander,hauls The Fellsman excursion
through Langho station
in the early evening of Wednesday 19th August 2009.
Photo: W. Briggs
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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 |
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.
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THE LAST RIDE HOME “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.
2 August 1968
Photo: R Allison |
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 venerable machine cuts a fine sight at Brownhill as it hauls the rake of shiny new tanks towards Horrocksford. Photo: M. Ford |
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Photo: B. Haworth |
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,
Sunday 2nd February 2003.
Photo: W. Briggs |
with a summer Saturdays-only Yorkshire - Blackpool North in the early 1970s. Photo: B. Haworth
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Photographed on 18 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.
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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. Photo: E. Buckley |
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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 |
Virgin (almost!) HST set 43067, with 43122 on the rear, crossing Swanside Viaduct, Downham, on the diverted Penzance to Edinburgh (1S71) on Saturday, 6 March 1999.
Langho Driver, Norman Cookson, is at the controls.
Photo: E. Buckley |
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Photo: Courtesy of Mike Cliffe, Principal Transport Planner, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council |
Black Five and Standard head 1Z40 “The Residential” south up Langho Bank,
captured passing Mytton Fold Golf Course on 30 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 |
"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 |
Photo: B. Haworth |
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47770 on 1Z64 Mills Hill - Edinburgh Special Day Excursion
on 18 April 1998 Photo: E. Buckley |
Ramsgreave & Wilpshire Station
Photo: K. Roberts |
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The above photograph of Langho station, featured 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 |
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