ON TRUST Journal

ON TRUST is the bi-annual journal of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust
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  • Issue No. 41 – Autumn 2023

    January 2024
    Issue No. 41 - Autumn 2023

    Coach 1507 doors re-build                                                     
    Obituaries  A.J. Adams . Robin Lush                                      
    Gillett’s Crossing Halt                                                             
    L&YR Coaches in South Wales                                               
    The Ironclads, History.                                                            
    East Lancs. Autumn Gala                                                       
    51456 in Service                                                                        
    Photos From Facebook                                                              
    52044 on Vintage Trains K&WVR                                          
    Pug on Wedding Special                                                         
    Legacies                                                                                  

    Front cover – 51456 in platform 4 Bury Bolton Street – photo Joan Sagar

  • Issue No. 40 – Spring 2023

    June 2023
    Issue No. 40 - Spring 2023

    Pug Visit to Bluebell Railway
    KWVR Spring Gala
    752 News  Pug Visit to G-WR
    Aspinall/Ivatt Connection
    Fings Aint Wot They Used to be (Heywood)  
    Seen it all Before Ian G Holt  
    Memories of Lockwood. D.R.Smith   
    L&YR Lookalikes (Locomotives)   
    Pug Chimneys  Letter to the Editor (Pugs)

    Front cover – Pug 19 as 11243 on a Bluebell train to East Grinstead
    Rear cover – 752 as 51456 on test runs after motion work and
                            boiler tests at Bury

                            All photos from John Sagar

  • Issue No. 39 – Autumn 2022

    December 2022
    Issue No. 39 - Autumn 2022

    • Pug Diary
    • Pug First Passenger Train + Return to Preston
    • 51456 on the Red Rose Diner
    • 19 and 752 on photo charters
    • The L&YR/LNWR Centenary Gala, ELR
    • 2022 trains on the K&WVR
    • Club Carriage 47 on the Railway Children Film
    • Visitors from Ukraine
    • Whitworth Revisited
    • L&YR Members Remembered

    Front cover – Pug 19 on its first ever passenger train

    Rear cover – Callum Porter and Tony Cox on 52044 – John Sagar

    L&YR and LNWR meet at Ramsbottom, 752 and 1054 – Barry Hilton

  • Issue No.38 – Spring 2022

    July 2022
    Issue No.38 - Spring 2022

    • Pug Diary
    • Coach 1474 Overhaul completed
    • Train Reporting Numbers
    • 51456 E.L.R. Gala
    • 51456 Visits the Spa Valley Railway
    • L&YR Official Colour Postcards
    • The L&YR/LNWR 1922 Amalgamation
    • Pug 19’s First two steamings
    • New Sales Stall at Oxenhope

    Front cover – Pug 19’s first journey out of the yard at Bury South

    Rear cover – the boiler inspector issuing Pug 19’s final boiler certificate 29th April 2022

  • Issue No.37 – Winter 2021/2022

    December 2021
    Issue No.37 - Winter 2021/2022

    • Obituaries, Nigel Thornley, Jim Hindle
    • Pug Diary
    • Progress on coach 1474
    • 51456’s Exploits
    • The New Barnes Pug Trip
    • 51218 on 1975 AGM Special
    • 11305’s Final Journey
    • A First Class Day Out. Hebblethwaite Family
    • Mixed Traffic – small items
    • Town Fund
    • Tony’s Saloon

    Front cover – 752 as 51456 double heading a freight on the East Lancashire Railway with 52322

    Back cover – 2 photos of 752 as 51456 on a photographic charter on the East Lancashire Railway (photos R.Stevens)

  • Issue No.36 – Spring/Summer 2021

    June 2021
    Issue No.36 - Spring/Summer 2021

    • Pug 19 restoration
    • Brake 3rd 1474 restoration
    • Horwich Narrow Gauge
    • Pug L&Y 310/51206
    • A postcard from Brussels
    • LYR 752 launch
    • 52089 mystery location
    • L&Y locomotives in 1922
    • New L&YR injector sponsored
    • Deaths of Gordon Walker and Dr. John Raines

    Front Cover: L&YR 19 and 752 at Bury, keeping warm at night – John Sagar

    Back cover: Pug 51218 on Healey Dell Viaduct

  • Issue No.35 – Winter 2020

    December 2020
    Issue No.35 - Winter 2020

    • Pug 19, an illustrated history 1910—2020
    • Brake 3rd 1474, a big lift and back in traffic
    • Recent News and Events
    • 752 at Rainhill
    • Letters to the Editor
    • The Rochdale—Bacup branch. Ian G Holt
    • The Heap Bridge branch
    • Pug Tour to Chadderton

    Front Cover: 752 as 51456 running a public service in August 2020 on the East Lancashire Railway

    Back cover: 1474 arrival at Bury.  Photo Callum Porter
    Steam testing 752 as 51456 with 1474 after repairs.  Photo Keith Savory

  • Issue No.34 – Summer 2020

    June 2020
    Issue No.34 - Summer 2020

    • 51218 Ship Canal Railtour 14 September 1969
    • Glenn Foxley, Obituary
    • Howard Malham, Obituary 
    • A Saddletank heating boiler 
    • 752/51456 Early trains, February and March
    • Some East Lancashire Railway Locomotives 
    • Letters to the Editor, Loco. and C&W notes 
    • New Springs fitted to 1474
    • Royton Junction, with a Hughes brake/3rd 
    • Who was Ross (of “pop” safety valve fame?)

    Front Cover. 51456 on a charter goods train. Photos. Richard Stevens.

    Rear Cover. 752  The smartest cab of all ?

  • Issue No.33 – Winter 2019

    December 2019
    Issue No.33 - Winter 2019
    • Mode Wheel Railtour
    • The English Game
    • Progress on No.752
    • Colne to Rose Grove Railmotors
    • High Speed Highflyers – A Postscript
    • Scattering of Len Hill’s ashes
    • Loco. & Carriage Notes

    Front cover: Front Cover. 752 steams again. Photo. Dr. John Sagar
    Rear Cover. 752 derelict at Parsonage Colliery, and in the Rainhill Parade.

  • Issue No.32 – Summer 2019

    June 2019
    Issue No.32 - Summer 2019
    • 51218 Trafford Park Railtour 21 May 1967
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Royal Visit, Duke of Kent, 31st May
    • Obituaries T.T.Sutcliffe, David Moorehouse
    • New Ways to Pay
    • Clenn Foxley, 90
    • High Speed Highflyers (90 with an Atlantic)
    • Latest news and rolling stock reports

    Front
    cover: HRH the Duke of Kent in the Club Carriage – Craig Szlaoszlavek

    Rear cover – 752 lifted onto its
    wheels – Dr John Sagar

  • Issue No. 31 – Winter 2018

    December 2018
    Issue No. 31 - Winter 2018
    • 51218 Whitworth Railtour 1967
    • Harrow & Wealdstone 1952, L&Y involvement
    • Southport Electrics, part 2
    • Colour photographs 52515
    • Worth Valley 50th Anniversary
    • Sowerby Bridge’s last ‘A’ class
    • Pug at Avonmouth
    • Tickhill, South Yorks Joint Railway
    • Latest news and rolling stock reports

    Front cover: L&Y Carriage 279 with LNWR Coal Tank at Keighley on a 2018 Vintage Train service – Robin Higgins.
    Rear cover – Daniel Winters and Jim Hindle with new parts for Brake 1474 – Peter Eastham.

  • Issue No. 30 – Summer 2018

    June 2018
    Issue No. 30 - Summer 2018
    • George William (Bill)Attock
    • Birkdale papers
    • Pug 51217 epic journey
    • Bolton curve halt
    • Eric Rawcliffe obituary
    • Royal visits photographs
    • Other obituaries
    • L&Y birdcage brakes
    • Hoy 2-6-2 tanks
    • Latest news and rolling stock reports

    Front cover: L&Y Carriage 279 features in Royal Train on way to Oxemhope February 16 2018 – from Robin Lush.
    Rear cover – our Brake 1474 on Worth Valley service train January 7 2018 – photo from Michael Taylor.

  • Issue No. 29 – Winter 2017

    December 2017
    Issue No. 29 - Winter 2017
    • Spring Hanger Appeal
    • Editorial – Where do we go now?
    • Volunteers Required as Caretakers
    • 279 is a Memorial
    • The Liverpool Train
    • The Liverpool/Southport Electrification
    • Lighting the L&Y Carriages
    • Vintage Carriages 2017
    • The last two Railmotors
    • John Aspinall – Interred
    • Axle Box refurbishment
    • Wooden Axleboxes – Are you serious?

    Front cover: Vintage Train pulling up the hill from Keighey, from Andrew Dennison
    Rear cover: Vintage Train at Oxenhope with passengers hurrying to board, from Chris Stuart

  • Issue No. 28 – Summer 2017

    June 2017
    Issue No. 28 - Summer 2017
    • Preston’s Lost Station
    • Editorial
    • Obituaries
    • First Class 279 – Full coverage of recent efforts and the Inaugural Run
    • John Ramsbottom – The Engines
    • Heating the L&Y Carriages
    • The last two Railmotors
    • A Job Done

    Front cover: the full L&Y train ready for the Inaugural Run of First Class 279 at Oxenhope on June 21st.   
    Rear cover: an interesting view at Keighley with all carriage doors open for passengers to board.

  • Issue No. 27 – Winter 2016

    December 2016
    Issue No. 27 - Winter 2016
    • Club on the Train
    • Editorial
    • Carriage Lighting
    • West Lancashire Railway
    • 752 to Bury
    • Shunting at Stations
    • Whoops – We have the Wrong Railway
    • The Ramsbottom Reports
    • Can you solve the Mystery
    • Late News 752

    Front cover: 752 being craned onto a lorry at Haworth for the journey to Bury. 
    Rear cover: 752 within covered accomodation at Bury together with L&Y 0-6-0 12322

  • Issue No.26 – Summer 2016

    June 2016
    Issue No.26 - Summer 2016
    • Bowers 957 Trust
    • Did James Overton help build 752?
    • What Price a First Class Carriage
    • 175th Anniversary of Summit Tunnel
    • Obituary J Gordon Blears
    • AGM & Vintage Carriages on KWVR
    • Axle Box Refurbishment on 752
    • Dearne Valley Railway
    • Carriage Door Locks
    • L&Y Ropes

    Front and rear cover: An axlebox from 752 together with an insert casting which will be cut in two and shaped to fit this and another axlebox to restore the original profile

  • Issue No.25 – Winter 2015

    December 2015
    Issue No.25 - Winter 2015
    • Manchester Victoria – the L&Y lives on
    • Lighting the Club Carriage
    • L&Y and the War in 1915
    • Upholstering the 1st class 6-wheeler
    • Still on the Station Platform
    • Fundraising and the Trust
    • ON TRUST anniversary

    Front cover: 752 in steam at the Rainhill 150 celebrations in 1980.  Photo copyright Robin Higgins. Rear cover: 752 as she is now.  Photo copyright Robin Higgins

  • Issue No.24 – Summer 2015

    June 2015
    Issue No.24 - Summer 2015
    • Obituary – Len Hill
    • General Elections and Railway Uniforms
    • Rescuing the Club Carriage
    • L&Y 0-6-2 Goods Tank Engines
    • Minutes of the AGM November 2015
    • Tribulations of the Excursionist
    • Sir George Armytage
    • Abraham Altham and the L&YR
    • On the Station Platform
    • The Traffic Manager’s Inspection

    Front Cover:  Big Jim 5820 powering up Keighley Bank with our Club Carriage 47 leading Worth Valley Gala Feb 28 2015.   Photo copyright Alan Padley

  • Issue No.23 – Winter 2014

    December 2014
    Issue No.23 - Winter 2014
    • Rescuing the Club Carriage, part II
    • Railway Uniforms, part II
    • The L&YR and the Great War
    • L&YR No 288 2-4-0
    • Calling Octogenarians (Railmotors)
    • Club Carriage in mainline use?
    • 752, the last Saddletank, short history
    • L&YR Royal Trains 1913

    Front Cover:  Pug No. 51218 climbs to Damems with a goods to Oakworth, early in the morning of 22nd October 2000.      Photo copyright Neil Harvey

  • Issue No.22 – Summer 2014

    June 2014
    Issue No.22 - Summer 2014
    • Daisyfield, signal box and LMS excess fair tickets
    • Last of the Summer Wine – Oldham – Liverpool – Llandudno Summer 1914
    • Railway Uniforms part 1
    • CIO Progress Report
    • The L&YR 0-6-2T passenger tank engines
    • Carriage warning
    • Notes from the L&YR rolling stock committee

    Front Cover:  Nunlow and two L&YR carriages

    Rear cover features a scan of Charity registration certificate