MY LIFE IN TRAINS
My Life After the Official ‘End of Steam’
Part Two
The Preservation Movement
Preserved Steam on the Main Line and Heritage Railways
All of the photos in this part are digital images from a Canon Powershot S45. I have cropped and adjusted these images to get the best I can out of them using Adobe Lightroom.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
The Midland Railway Centre - Swanwick Junction
S&DJR 7F 2-8-0 No 53809 undergoing maintenance at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
I think this is the Matthew Kirtley Building, which I wandered round unchallenged.
A general view inside the Matthew Kirtley Building at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
See if you can identify any of the locos – I don’t have any notes from this visit.
BR Class 11 DM Shunter No 12077 inside the Matthew Kirtley Building at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
Peckett M5 0-4-0ST No 1163 of 1908, built for the Cefnstylle Colliery in South Wales. Here it is in the guise of ‘Taffy’ the Welsh engine,
inside the Matthew Kirtley Building at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
BR Class 31 No 31108 at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
BR Class 33 No D6586 at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
BR Caprotti Class 5MT 4-6-0 No 73129 at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
BR Class 47 No 47401 ‘North Eastern’ at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
BR Class 20 No 20227 ‘Sir John Betjeman’ at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
BR ‘Peak’ Class 45 No 45041 ‘Royal Tank Regiment’ with BR Peak Class 4 No 44004 at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
BR Class 50 No 50007 ‘Sir Edward Elgar’ at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
Another view of BR Class 20 No 20227 ‘Sir John Betjeman’ at Swanwick Junction on 18 November 2005.
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
Inside Oxford Rewley Road Station, reconstructed as the Visitor Centre at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre,
on 11 August 2006, with GWR Castle 4-6-0 No 5080 ‘Defiant’ in the foreground.
Metropolitan Railway E Class 0-4-4T No 1 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre on 11 August 2006.
South African 25NC Class 4-8-4 No. 3405 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre on 11 August 2006.
Severn Valley Railway
Internal combustion replica of a GER C53/LNER J70 0-6-0T dressed up as Toby at Kidderminster on the Severn Valley Railway on 9 September 2006.
GWR Manor Class 4-6-0 No 7802 ‘Bradley Manor’ waits at Bridgenorth on the Severn Valley Railway on 11 September 2006.
GWR 1500 Class 0-6-0PT No 1501 and 5700 Class 0-6-0PT No 5764 in the shed yard at Bridgenorth on the Severn Valley Railway
on 11 September 2006.
5700 Class 0-6-0PT No 5764 and GWR 1500 Class 0-6-0PT No 1501 in the shed yard at Bridgenorth on the Severn Valley Railway
on 11 September 2006.
Another view of the shed yard at Bridgenorth with on the Severn Valley Railway on 11 September 2006, with 5700 Class 0-6-0PT No 5764,
GWR 1500 Class 0-6-0PT No 1501 and glimpses of LMSR Stanier 2-6-0 No 42968 and Princess Class 4-6-2 No 6201 ‘Princess Elizabeth’.
GWR 1500 Class 0-6-0PT No 1501 in the shed yard at Bridgenorth on the Severn Valley Railway on 11 September 2006.
GWR Manor Class 4-6-0 No 7802 ‘Bradley Manor’ preparing to leave Bridgenorth on the Severn Valley Railway on 11 September 2006.
GWR Manor Class 4-6-0 No 7802 ‘Bradley Manor’ leaving Bridgenorth on the Severn Valley Railway on 11 September 2006.
Pannal
LNER A4 4-6-2 No 60009 ‘Union of South Africa’ speeds through Pannal on its way from Leeds to Harrogate and York
with the last leg of the Scarborough Flyer on the evening of 25 July 2007.
