East Lancs Railway Autumn Steam Gala 2022

Описание: East Lancashire Railway
Autumn Steam Gala
Friday 14th to Sunday 16th October 2022

The ELR's Autumn Steam Gala continued the celebration of the merger of the LYR and LNWR, featuring the largest collection of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway locomotives in preservation.

Locomotive Line Up
L&Y Class 25 'Ironclad' 957 / 52044 visiting from Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, best known in its role as 'The Green Dragon' in The Railway Children (1970)
L&Y Pug 19 as ex-Goole docks British Railways 51241
L&Y Pug 51218 (static display)
L&Y Saddletank 752 / 51456
L&Y Class 27 'A Class' 1300 / 52322
LNWR Coal Tank 1054
GWR 5600 Class 5643 (Sunday)
Southern Railway Bulleid Light Pacific West Country Class 34092 ‘City of Wells’ (Friday/Saturday)
BR Standard 4MT 80097 (Friday)
Sentinel Works No 7232 "Ann" (Friday)

The weekend saw an intensive timetable. On Friday 'Ann' was in action at Castlecroft, shunting wagons in front of the Bury Transport Museum. On Saturday Pug 19 was in use on a 3P20 Photo Charter to begin the day, with a series of run pasts at Burrs Country Park. The locomotive then performed shunting demonstrations in the sidings at Ramsbottom. On Sunday the Pug was on duty shunting Castlecroft, while we see if leaving platform 1 at Bury and heading through platform 3.

Highlights from the weekend include 52044 on a freight train on Friday afternoon at Little Burrs, double headed action including 52044 & 52322, 1054 & 51456 and 1054 & 34092 City of Wells.

Please note, there is no public lineside access on the East Lancs, lineside shots are taken as a Working Member with Accredited Photographer status.

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(C) Lee Andrew Davies 2022