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Steamtown Carnforth

Discussion in 'Bullhead Memories' started by 60017, Jul 26, 2008.

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  1. torgormaig

    torgormaig Part of the furniture Friend

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    The Nord 4-6-0 was loaned to Didcot by the Science Museum for a while in the mid 1980s. It was a De Glenn Compound, a type which the GWR had experiemented with in the early days of the last century.
    Here it is in 1985 facing the Swindon built 8F (8431) from the KWVRduring the GW 150 celebrations. 85-5-29 42 3.626 8431 copy.jpg

    Peter
     
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    marshall5 Part of the furniture

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    SNCF 231.K22 and DB 80.14 at Steamtown in 1975 and 1973 respectively.
    Ray. JH a-75-13 231K22 Carnforth Spr.75.jpg 02-73-10 DB 80 014 Carnforth 1973.jpg
     
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    The 80 tank was owned by Ulrich Kroll who was the Bahn Direktor for the DB Essen area. He was a good friend to Steamtown and a contact point that allowed Peter Beet to bring the 012 pacific to 10A.

    I got along well with him, to the point he arranged for myself and a colleague to spend a whole working day on the footplate of 044.585 (Wanne Eickel Depot) working coal trains to Power Stations in the Rhur. Incredibly, we got to do it a second time a few months later with 044.650, just before the depot closed to steam operations. We had the same driver too, Artur Engelmann (who spoke English).
     
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