ON TRUST Journal

ON TRUST is the bi-annual journal of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust
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  • Issue No.21 – Winter 2013

    December 2013
    Issue No.21 - Winter 2013
    • Obituaries – Mike Goodall and Charles Meredith
    • Rescuing the Club Carriage
    • 1054 Coal Tank 125
    • The Paintings of F Moore
    • Summer Cream Teas
    • 1st class carriage 279. Progress to date
    • Peaky Binders, our part in the filming
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports

    Front Cover: 
    Clitheroe January 1884

    Rear cover features a black & white photo and an F. Moore painting based on it.

  • Issue No.20 – Summer 2013

    June 2013
    Issue No.20 - Summer 2013
    • Plans for the Trust to become a ‘CIO’
    • L&YR.K&WVR agreement
    • Barugh Coincidences
    • The L&YR in the 1860s
    • ‘The Yorkshireman’ in the 1930s
    • Southport
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports
    • Odds and Ends

    Front Cover:  Brockholes station

    Rear cover: features the Club Carriage and Coach 279 being restored

  • Issue No.19 – Winter 2012

    December 2012
    Issue No.19 - Winter 2012
    • A Britannia with our name
    • Searching for Sudds (L&YR employee)
    • LMS Club Coach No.822
    • The First Complete L&YR Royal Train
    • RCH and Through Carriage Working
    • Through Carriage Destinations
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports

    Front Cover:  Double
    headed by 1300 and 957 with our three L&YR carriages

    Rear cover features 1300 and 957 approaching Oakworth and the classic L&YR train

  • Issue No.18 – Summer 2012

    June 2012
    Issue No.18 - Summer 2012
    • Editorial
    • European Emigrants
    • Club Coach Working
    • The First Blackpool Club Carriages
    • Club Bogie Saloons
    • Pre Club Coach Travel
    • Brake Trials between Gisburn and Chatburn
    • Turton Agricultural Show
    • The 1883 Dividend
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports

    Front Cover:  Pug
    51218 propelling the Chatham coach up Haworth loop at an early ‘open day’.

    Rear cover features work in progress on six wheeler 279

  • Issue No.17 – Winter 2011

    December 2011
    Issue No.17 - Winter 2011
    • Editorial
    • Obituary, Brian Moss
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Club Carriage Working in 1913. Barry Lane
    • Launch Day of the Club Carriage. E. Rawcliffe
    • Club Carriage in Colour
    • L&YR Atlantics. Eric Mason
    • Atlantic Firebox Experiment. George Hughes
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports
    • 4-page centre spread features 8 colour photos of Club Carriage 47

    Front Cover:  a photo
    reproduced by permission of Stuart Brown featuring 957 and our 3 operational
    carriages, this was taken at the top of Haworth loop on the first public trip
    including Club Carriage 47 on Friday 7th October 2011

    Rear cover features 2 colour photos of our 3 carriages on trains during the Worth Valley’s Autumn Steam Gala in October

  • Issue No.16 – Spring 2011

    March 2011
    Issue No.16 - Spring 2011
    • Editorial
    • Wear and Tear on Boilers, George Hughes
    • Eatock Coal Purchase, Daisy Hill
    • New Light on the purchase of 51218
    • Dirt, dirt everywhere on the L&YR, 1860s
    • It’s all there in Black and White – coach liveries
    • Locomotive and Carriage Reports

    Front Cover:  Hughes
    brake/3rd, six wheel 3rd and Club Carriage at Keighley, Friday 29 April 2011

    Rear cover features 2 colour photos of Tony Cox’ssaloon and three L&YR coaches en route to Ingrow

  • Issue No.15 – Summer 2010

    June 2010
    Issue No.15 - Summer 2010
    • Editorial
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Dreadnought and train near Euxton
    • A day with the luvvies – filming at Keighley
    • Mr Hoy’s Locomotive Experiments
    • Locomotives designed at Horwich – George Hughes
    • The South Yorkshireman etc
    • Locomotive and Carriage Reports

    Front Cover:  Pug 19
    as 11243 shortly after arrival at Haworth

    Rear cover features 2 colour photos of 2010 Vintage Trains with 1474 in new livery

  • Issue No.14 – Winter 2009/2010

    December 2009
    Issue No.14 - Winter 2009/2010
    • Editorial
    • Obituary
    • Most Secret, the LMS in wartime
    • In Print – L&Y articles in other magazines
    • L&Y Aromas
    • The Aspinall 0-6-0 sidetanks
    • Great Uncle Jim (L&YR employee)
    • Two Marsdens
    • F,W. Blower – L&YR driver
    • Locomotive and Carriage Reports

    Front Cover:  51218 at Haworth loop, January 2003

  • Issue No.13 – Spring 2009

    March 2009
    Issue No.13 - Spring 2009
    • Editorial
    • Health & Safety 1870s
    • Memories of L&YR 1912-1921
    • Mirfield Memories
    • Locomotive and Carriage Reports

    Front Cover:  51218 running as 51222 at Goole Docks

  • Issue No.12 – Autumn/Winter 2008

    December 2008
    Issue No.12 - Autumn/Winter 2008
    • Richard Hornby, L&YR driver
    • East Lancs. Memories of the Thirties
    • Eric Bollington, Obituary
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Daily run to Lancashire coast. N. Shawcross (1926)
    • The Story of One Armchair (Club Coach)
    • The L&Y in 1861
    • Locomotive and Carriage Reports

    Front Cover:  51218 and 46115 in Haworth yard, September 1966

    Published:December 1 2008

  • Issue No.11 – Spring 2008

    March 2008
    Issue No.11 - Spring 2008
    • Sponsorship
    • East Lancs. Memories of the Thirties
    • Recollections of Goole Part 3
    • The L&Y around 1860/70
    • Letter to W. Barton Wright from Madras Rly Co staff
    • The L&Y not to be Bullied (by LNWR)
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports

    Front Cover:  An original Dreadnought on a Newcastle to Liverpool express at Walkden.

    Published: March 1 2008

  • Issue No.10 – Autumn/Winter 2007

    December 2007
    Issue No.10 - Autumn/Winter 2007
    • Sponsorship
    • East Lancs. Memories of the Thirties
    • Recollections of Goole Part 2
    • The L&Y around 1860
    • Douglas Bank Signal Box
    • Saloon Bodies
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports

    Front Cover:  A Valentine’s coloured postcard of an Atlantic hauled L&Y express.

  • Issue No.9 – Spring/Summer 2007

    June 2007
    Issue No.9 - Spring/Summer 2007
    • Obituary – R.W. Rush
    • An Historic Find at Birkdale
    • Converted Tanks
    • Recollections of Goole
    • The Winter of 1860 – 1861
    • Three Coach Bodies
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports

    Front Cover:  957 and two L&Y carriages at Keighley 5th August 2007

  • Issue No.8 – Autumn 2006

    September 2006
    Issue No.8 - Autumn 2006
    • 2006 An Important Centenary (superheating)
    • A Body of Gentlemen (Club Coach committee)
    • Atlantics in Trouble
    • Memories of Barugh (957 shunting in 1950s)
    • The L&Y at the Lancs. Record Office
    • Locomotive & Rolling Stock Reports

    Front Cover:  957 and two L&Y carriages at Keighley

  • Issue No.7 – Spring 2006

    March 2006
    Issue No.7 - Spring 2006
    • Pug Bows Out
    • 0-8-2T 11803, 0-6-0 957
    • Centenaries and Sesquicentenaries
    • Charles Tiplady
    • Blackpool Club Train
    • A Foggy Saturday in December 1870

    Front Cover:  Pugs at Southport.  51218 and 19 posing as 51231.

  • Issue No.6 – Autumn 2005

    September 2005
    Issue No.6 - Autumn 2005
    • The L&YR in 1878 (part 5)
    • In search of Barton Wright
    • In the footseps of C.J.A
    • A pair of Ironclads
    • An Ivatt Connection; Labour disputes
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports

    Front Cover:  The 40th Anniversary special at Damems 13 May 2006

  • Issue No.5 – Spring 2005

    March 2005
    Issue No.5 - Spring 2005
    • L&YR Articles in print
    • 51235 on hire
    • The Hart’s Slot
    • The Jenkins Rebuilds
    • The L&YR 4-6-0s
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports
    • 40 Years of L&YR

    Front Cover:  The first locomotive to arrive at the Keighley Worth Valley Railway; 51218 in Haworth yard, 7 January 1965.

  • Issue No.4 – Autumn 2004

    September 2004
    Issue No.4 - Autumn 2004
    • L&YR Articles in print
    • Christmas on the Club Train
    • William Barton Wright
    • L&YR Carriages on BR
    • The L&YR in 1878 (part 4)
    • Moving 752
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports
    • The 0-8-2 Tanks

    Front Cover:  A Liverpool to Manchester Express taking water on Walkden Troughs.

  • Issue No.3 – Spring 2004

    March 2004
    Issue No.3 - Spring 2004
    • The Dearne Valley Push & Pull
    • L&YR Carriages on BR
    • 1007 & 1007 (L&YR Barton Wright 4-4-0)
    • 1007 & 1007 (L&YR Through Coach, Blackburn – St. Pancras)
    • Locomotive and Rolling Stock Reports
    • The L&YR in August 1878 (part 3)

    Front Cover: 957 on its first day in service in L&YR livery.

  • Issue No.2 – Autumn 2003

    September 2003
    Issue No.2 - Autumn 2003
    • Agecroft Pugs
    • L&YR Carriages on BR
    • The Pug at Goole
    • The Trust’s Carriages
    • Pug Exploits
    • 752 Progress and 51218 in 2003
    • The Dearne Valley Railway

    Front Cover:  51218 masquerading as 1950s Goole Pug 51222 on 15 March 2003.

    Published: September 1 2003