KEN ROBERTS

Gallery 3

 

 

Ken Roberts (centre)

surrounded by some of the RVR Members, who were present

at an informal 80th Birthday Presentation & Supper

held after an RVR Committee Meeting at the New Inn, Clitheroe on 1st September 2008

Photo: S. Clarke

 

 

 

 

 

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Chatburn Goods Yard August 1961

 

 

2 - 6 - 4 T on the last day of service,

5 September 1962,

crosses Two Gates Bridge

approaching Brownhill Cutting

with a Manchester Vic. - Hellifield train

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

In summer 1953, a Hellifield 4F 0-6-0, 44579,

slogs up the bank through the

original Wilpshire (for Ribchester) station

with a rake of empty wooden-bodied coal wagons.

 

 
Unknown Black 5 heads north through the disused Wilpshire Station with an excursion in July 1964
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

Lower Darwen (24D) ex LYR Aspinall 0-6-0

(built 1889)

trundles the pickup freigh

t through Wilpshire Station

circa 1950

 
 

Fairburn Tank, 42154, drifts down Cemetery Hill

on a local Hellifield / Blackburn stopper

with attached Fish Van June 1957

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

With Pendle Hill in the background,

un-named ‘Patriot’ 4-6-0 45517,

climbs Langho Bank

in charge of the 4.45 p.m. Hellifield / Liverpool

September 1962.

 
 

 

Jubilee 4.6.0, no. 45607, “FIJI”,

makes light work of Langho Bank

on a Hellifield/Liverpool service

passing Langho Signal Box

during June 1957

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

At Langho Signal Box - details not yet known

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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43014 / 43013 on 15:39 Bournemouth / Edinburgh


at Chatburn Cutting

on 24 May 1993

 

Royal Scot, class 46160, Queen Victoria’s Rifleman,

storms up Langho Bank 

approaching Wilpshire station 

 

in charge of a Glasgow/Blackpool special

during July 1964.

 

These services were normally worked south from Carlisle by Lower Darwen men

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Pullman Cars

at Blackburn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

Interior of an L & Y 1st Class Coach

on an excursion to Morecambe Euston Road

in the early 50s

 

Patriot, 45535, E Tootal Broadhurst,

heads a Saturday only Summer Service

Manchester Vic. - Glasgow via Hellifield

and observed approaching Wilpshire

June 1962

- Note the Gresley articulated coach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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Sunset at Langho Station in the mid - 1950s

 

Unidentified “Crab” heads north

through Rimington

in the late Fifties.

     
 

Clitheroe/Gunnie cement climbs

toward Wilpshire Tunnel

with two class 37s in charge

June 1886

 

Two Class 37s, 37422 / 37605, ease 6SO3,

the Clitheroe/Gunnie Cement working,

round the curve towards Brownhill Cutting

on 22 April 1992

 

 

 

Unidentified 2-6-2T Fairburn Tank

works the local pick up, bunker first, up Cemetery Hill

with Presflo Cement Wagons

bound for Horrocksford

in transit

   

 

BLACKBURN

Platform 4

 

 

 

Puddles emphasise the open aspect of Platform 4

at Blackburn Station

as passengers await the

10:01 Blackburn - Manchester Vic.

running sixteen minutes late

with a single class 153 in charge

15 Nov 2003

 

Icy conditions prevail on Platform 4

at Blackburn Station

making life very uncomfortable for passengers awaiting the 10:01 Blackburn - Manchester Vic,

which was running ten minutes late

on 28 Jan. 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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LANCASTER (CASTLE)

 

Two years before closure,a

Morecambe (Prom.) - Lancaster (Green Ayre) - Lancaster (Castle)

Electric Unit M28221M

approaches its destination

in May 1964

 

 

 

 

PENN STATION xxxxNew York City

3.18 p.m.xxx on xxx11th September 2001

Shortly after the station had re-opened

Photo: K. Roberts

 

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