The Pendle Dalesman tours of 2023

44932

 

As mentioned in the post above, 44932 has steamed past the Railcam @ Bolton-le-Sands this morning (no diesel on the rear either)

Ben

 

Near Carnforth load ten .

 

Passing Brock

 

Like the pipework on the front of the engine.lol lol

 

Going well through Bamber Bridge

 

Going nicely at Rimmington this morning.

 

And again at Helwith

 

It was not raining - yes! There was even some intermittent sunshine - yes, again! I had planned to go to Oram's crossing, midway on the climb of Hoghton bank. This involves a walk of a few hundred yards between car and crossing. With a dodgy knee (again) I decided against the walk and settled on Brownhill and the climb away from the stop in Blackburn (where parking is only a few yards away). The sun, if out, shines on the east side of the train; I would be on the west. There were plenty of clouds moving across the sky on a moderate northwesterly breeze; sun in or sun out, it would be a lottery.

The journey from home typically takes 20 to 40 minutes, depending on traffic and today was bang in the middle (30mins). I arrived 30 mins before the train was due. Shortly afterwards a regular acquaintance arrived, we got out of our cars and chatted as we readied our cameras. A resident joined us and although certainly not a hard-nut follower of steam had many questions regarding steam operation on the main line, we did our best to answer.

RTT showed that the train had left Blackburn (5L) and had passed at Daisyfield Jn (4L). At this point another car drew up driven by an old train watching mate of mine (he was never one to arrive early). White exhaust was now visible down the track but as yet no sound. As the train grew nearer there were the first sounds of a black 5 hard at work, as she drew closer the sounds grew louder rising to a crescendo as she barked past, a feather at her safety valves. A load of 10 coaches, probably just about right. The return up Wilpshire should be loud.

13C, 4L & 33mph and very, very enjoyable. A few minutes later we were joined by my mate's son who had been videoing from the other side of the line (on the wall of the under bridge a little nearer to Blackburn). We chatted for at least half an hour before heading home; past times and more recent ones.

 

Don’t use photoshop so it is what it is

 

Think an angle grinder would be order of the day lol lol

 

44932 on the outward journey at Hoghton Bottoms and Helwith Bridge

 

44932 seen at Lancaster, Clitheroe and Settle

 

Greengates

 

Afternoon Everyone.

Train touched down at Hellifield.
Sadly 44932 loco failed, front set of firebars melted into ashpan, duff batch sadly.
At least we have done 3/4 of the tour
Massive thanks to WCRC for a fantastic day

 

Passing Bay Horse this morning and going well........

 

Excellent photo
We now got 47 diesel on front

 

44932 leaving Carnforth, Hest bank, Lancaster Uni , Brownhill, Selside Shaw , near Salt Lake Cottages and Stockber. Poles and wires galore LOL.

 

[QUOTE=" Poles and wires galore LOL.

[/QUOTE]Sadly that just about sums it up!

 

Why?