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Updated 16/03/2008

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Ribble Valley Rail's

Quarterly Magazine

 

RVRNews

 

A selection of

Front Cover Photographs

 

Standard Pacific, 71000, Duke of Gloucester, descends Langho Bank with a steam charter in October 2004.

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

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

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.

Photo: E. Buckley

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, 6th March 1999. Langho Driver, Norman Cookson, is at the controls.

Photo: E. Buckley

The New Freckleton Street Bridge - a computer - generated artist’s impression.

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 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

"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

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: Brian 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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Ribble Valley Rail News

is published quarterly,

at least 44 glossy A5 pages per issue,

and is free to members.

 

Non-members may purchase copies

from the Information / Visitor Centres

in both Clitheroe and Blackburn.

 

Copies may also be obtained from the

RVRNews Editor

Bill Briggs

 

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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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