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SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE - Currently shows x2 66s at Heaton Lodge Junction, November 4th,2009

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November 5th: Britannit 70021 at 55C 1966; D6802 at HM 1968; 47553 at Mirfield 1988
October 29th: D1622 at Preston 1968; 47311 at Holbeck 1990, 47363 at Tinsley; 66128 / 66056 on ecml this week
October 22nd: Manor 7818 at Aberwystwyth 1964; Class 47 47488 Ravensthorpe 1989; Class 31 31280 Tinsley 1990
October 16th: Black 5 45156 at 56D 1966; Class 47 47158 at HM 1984; 47522 Ravensthorpe 1989
October 10th: Black 5s 44774 (nr Skipton) and 44896 (at 55C); 37250 at Mirfield (1989); Class 58s at HM (2003)
Railway Images - Terry Campbell

ALL-TIME
TOP 5 PICS

1: D347 at Holbeck - Leeds/Bradford collection - 650 hits
2: 92006 at Mirfield - Wakefield/Healey Mills collection - 549 hits
3: 45596 at Healey Mills - Wakefield/Healey Mills collection - 538 hits
4: D204 at West Vale - Mirfield and Calder Valley Collection - 519 hits
5: D6835 at Healey Mills - Wakefield/Healey Mills Collection - 483 hits (D390 at Mirfield is now out of the top 5 at 432)
November 12th,1968: Tinsley Class 37 D6802 (later 37102, 37712) arrives at Healey Mills with a mixed freight. The locomotive surives today, stored at Carnforth (Nov 2009)

00: RECENT ADDITIONS 		September 30th, 1966: Mirfield depot with Class 5 45064 (with 6G Llandudno Junction code on smokebox). In background is Standard Class 5 73071 (9H)

01: Mirfield in the 60s and 70s 		Brighouse Station, Thursday, April 2nd, 1964 - 1: Aintree WD 2-8-0 90641 with a coal train for Lancashire

02: Calder Valley in the 60s and 70s
 
July 4th, 1968: Stanier 8F 48111 (xBolton) at Healey Mills. Withdrawn in March 1968, the 8F was stored in a line with three other 8Fs, a single Black 5 and one Standard Class 5. Chalked in white on the tender is

03: Wakefield / Healey Mills in the 60s and 70s 		January 4th, 1967: 55F Manningham withdrawn Ivatt 2-6-0 43054 is in a sorry state. Not much better for 43050, in steam behind, a cop for me having been transferred from 51A.

04: Leeds / Bradford area in the 60s and 70s 		March 5th, 1967: Thomson B1 4-6-0 61030 Nyala at 50A York

05: York in the 60s and 70s
 
April 12, 1963: A1 Pacific 60149 Amadis run light from Doncaster Station to the depot

06: Doncaster area in the 60s and 70s 		April 26, 1968 - 2: Standard 9F 2-10-0 92054 of 8C comes off the Lostock Hall branch at Farrington North Jnc.

07: Preston area 1966-1968 		Ivatt Tank 41205 rests on its home depot of 27A Bank Hall, Liverpool. The engine was withdrawn in March 1964

08: North West England (excluding Preston)
 
July 14th, 1963: A1 Pacific 60161 North British runs light engine with V2 60892 past 64A St Margarets, Edinburgh

09: Scotland 		August 27th, 1962: 46115 Scots Guardsman and D377. See note

10: Crewe - 1962 onwards 		June 29th, 1975: D1065 Western Consort is seen at Cardiff as we passed through the station after a day at Barry Island

11: Other Locations (1960/70s)
 
July 19th, 1989: Immingham's Class 47 47348 St Christophers Railway Home looks good in this livery at Healey Mills

14: Healey Mills / Ravensthorpe in the 1980s and 90s 		April 25th, 1987: Newly painted with red sole-bar is Class 56 56089 (TO) heading west with a tanker train near Mirfield

15: Mirfield and Calder Valley in the 80s and 90s 		Leeds Holbeck, August 7th, 1991: Looking well in civil engineers livery is 47346 (IM). Three 31s all in different liveries - 31247 (red solebar), 31563 (Dutch) and 31230. On the end is 37202. All are IM based

16: Leeds / Knottingley area in the 80s and 90s
 
May 22, 1988: Class 20s 20035 (nearest) and 20066 - both Immingham engines at this time? Amazingly both survive today, 20035 is preserved and 20066 is with Corus as Scunthorpe as No 82. Various classes behind

17: TI Tinsley in the 80s and 90s 		Toton, unknown 1990s date: Civil Engineer's Class 31 line-up, left to right, 31219, 31146 Brush Veteran, 31107 John H Carless VC and the cab of 31155

18: Other locations (1980s and 90s) 		A Roxby-Bredbury binliner passes the site of 56D Mirfield on May 21st 2008 with Class 66 66557

20: Today's Scene: 2003 to 2008
 
October 7th, 2009: Class 66 66556 passes Mirfield Station heading for Bredbury, Stockport with the lunchtime binliner train

21: Today's Scene: 2009 		Class 08 3014 Samson at Paignton

22: Today's Scene: 2009 - Devon break by David Alcock 		Immaculate Jubilee 4-6-0 5690 Leander at Harrogate Station on Thursday, August 6th, 2009, with The Scarborough Spa Express

30: Mainline steam today
 
Looking very smart is Scots Guardsman at Preston - April 9th, 2009 (David Alcock)

31: Mainline steam - Great collection of images by David Alcock 		HST 43082 (courtesy David Alcock)

32: Neville Hill Open Day 		Class 50 50015 Valiant and Class 40 D335

40: Preservation: East Lancashire Railway - by Steve Crabtree
 
Sutton Flyer at Shelley Station

41: Preservation: Kirklees Light Railway by Steve Crabtree 		Class 47 47703 Hermes at Leeming (courtesy Steve Crabtree)

42: Preservation: Wensleydale Railway 		Hellifield, July 27, 2009: West Coat Railways Class 37 37516 (former D6786 / 37086) did the run back to Keighley (courtesy David Alcock)

43: Preservation: Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
 
Mallard (courtesy David Alcock)

44: Preservation - National Railway Museum, York 		The prototype Deltic inside Shildon's Locomotion Museum (Steve Crabtree)

45: Preservation: North East England - by Steve Crabtree 		Class 47 47367 (D1886) survived in BR service until 2003. I saw this locomotive as D1886 at Leeds Holbeck in 1967 (IM) and York in 1968 (TI). Then as 47367 at Toton during 1984

46: Preservation: North Norfolk Railway - 2007
 
Class 03 03189. New to Swindon depot in 1961, it moved to Barrow Hill in 1968 and then Birkenhead North in 1981. It was withdrawn from here in 1986.

47: Preservation: Ribble Steam Railway, Preston 		2009: General view of Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway headquarters at Embsay. This was an unplanned visit and on arrival we found no trains running due to double diesel locomotive failures

48: Preservation: The Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway, Skipton 		Bringing back fond memories D9009 Alycidon looks superb in its original BR livery

49: Preservation - Nene Valley Railway, Wansford
 
No 8264 at Brussels - an 0-6-0 of what looks like some vintage

55: Continental Europe by David Alcock 		Former Bradford trolleybus 792 - built in 1944. Behind is a former Reading trolley, No113 (1938)

60: Trolleybus Museum, Sandtoft, by Steve Crabtree 		A4 60025 Falcon passes the closed Holbeck High Level station as it nears Leeds Central

99: A selection of Rejects
 
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VIDEO
Taken near Heaton Lodge Junction, Mirfield, on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009.
First we see a Leeds to Manchester Transpennine unit followed by the Stockport to Scunthorpe bins train behind 66581 Sophie.
After a pleasant 30min walk down the Calder and Hebble canal it was time for the return
working (which pass each other around Wakefield) to come through behind 66526 named Driver Steve Dunn (George)