Latest ON TRUST issued
Issue number 44 for Spring 2025 has now been posted to members and supporters, with the usual mix of news and articles.
To view details on our ON TRUST page click here (opens in new window)
Latest ON TRUST issued
Issue number 44 for Spring 2025 has now been posted to members and supporters, with the usual mix of news and articles.
To view details on our ON TRUST page click here (opens in new window)
Issue no 44 – Spring 2025
CONTENTS
11456 visits the Mid Hants & West Somerset Railways
52044 on KWVR Vintage Trains
First Event of year at ELR with Pug
Whitworth Revisited – Pug 51218 Railtour
51218 at Bletchley, Horwich, Shildon
LYR Pug496 at Bank Hall
Pug 11243 at ELR Museum
Rooke and Pug
LMS Central Division Miscellany – new book
Dreadnought, Fact and Fiction
ELR L&Y Day 11243 and 11456
1008, 50621 over the years
Radial Tank arrives at Bury
Large Boilered L&YR 0-8-0s
Front cover –
11456 visits the Mid Hants & West Somerset Railways
(Photo copyright ‘Geof’ from Flickr)
Rear cover –
11456 on a passenger/goods train on the Mid Hants Railway
(Photo copyright Steve Harris)
IMPORTANT – access to our stock at Worth Valley in 2025
Our 4 carriages and Pug 51218 at the Worth Valley Railway are normally on public display in the Exhibition Shed at Oxenhope when out of use.
The Railway Children production, an event connected with the Bradford 2025 City of Culture, is due to take place in the Exhibition Shed during 2025. From May onwards it is expected that the Shed will no longer be open to the public whilst preparations and the actual production take place.
Elsewhere on our website you may see that 3 of our carriages are to be used during the production, but access to them is restricted to ticket holders for the production. Our First Class 6-wheel 279 was hopefully to undergo repairs to remove ‘flats’ from one of the wheelsets but due to various obstacles found with organising the project the work has may have to be deferred. It may be that 279 is accessible to public view but it should be assumed that this will not be the case.
It has also been confirmed by the Worth Valley Railway that Pug 51218 will not be accessible to public view during the Railway Children production as it is secure storage which is not designed for public access.
752 – further visits to the south in 2025
Saddletank 752 still operating as LMS 11456 made two further visits on hire to preserved railways in the South of England.
Firstly to the Mid Hants Railway (the Watercress Line) to operate in their Spring Steam Gala on 25th, 26th and 27th April 2025. Here it operated with Andy Booth’s ‘A’ class 0-6-0 52322. Full details were available on their website, click here (opens in new window). Videos of the event can be found on our Video Online page and still photos on our Photos -stock in use page.
Secondly moving across to the West Somerset Railway to operate in their Spring Steam Spectacular on 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th May 2025 with a total of 10 locos including ‘Terrier’ 72 Fenchurch and ‘Jubilee’ 45596 Bahamas. Videos of the event can be found on our Video Online page and still photos on our Photos -stock in use page.
752 as 11456 comes to the rescue on ELR ‘Legends of Steam’ event 14th March 2025
Not long before the start of the ELR event on Friday 14th March the Railway found out that one of the visiting locos, B1 class 61306, could not arrive until late in the day. As a result our loco 752 running as 11456 was at short notice steamed to take over the duties of 61306 on the ‘shuttle’ services on the 14th until 61306 arrived from the National network at Heywood in the late afternoon.
Images of 11456 in use can be found on our page Photos – stock in use
and videos from Youtube on our page (link to follow)
We go forward to 14th June when 11456 was to double head with 52322 on an ‘L&Y Running Day’ at the ELR but had to be taken off at Ramsbottom due to a problem with the motion. On this short video fron ELR Trainspotter you will be able to hear unexpected noises from 11456 as it comes to a halt at Summerseat click here
On May 17th and 18th our Bogie Brake 1474 and Club Carriage 47 were used at short notice by the Worth Valley for their 1940s Weekend, featuring a wide range of events and recreations of the era, unfortunately the risk of lineside fires dictated that the steam locos were assisted by diesels.
3 minutes from Harnetty Railways click here
5 minutes Joshua Pattison 2 click here
29 minutes from Mark Ian Battersby, our stock in last 10 minutes click here
There are others which mainly feature the events and entertainment, see –
45 minutes cedarcam click here and 15 minutes LMS VIDEO click here
May 10th was the first in a series of L&Y Running Days with our Saddletank 752 running as LMS 11456 with Andy Booth’s ‘A’ Class 52322 on East Lancashire Railway passenger services and Pug 19 running as LMS 11243 operating Driver Experience trips around Bury Bolton Street. 4 more days are planned for 2025, 14th June, 9th August, 27th September and 1st November.
6 minutes from LMS Video, click here
2 minutes from Philip Taylor showing a journey up the ‘Ski jump’ click here
19 minutes from thattrainperson showing mainly 11243 in action click here
In the meantime all 4 of our carriages were in use on Worth Valley Vintage Trains services behind L&Y Ironclad 52044 from 3rd to 5th May.
8 minutes from Classic Locomotives click here
1 hour and 10 minutes from cedercam click here
35 minutes from axi ‘deltic’ Walton click here
38 minutes from Chris King Heritage Railway’s click here
After the Mid Hants 752 moved across to the West Somerset Railway to take part in their Spring Steam Spectacular 2nd to 5th May, a further selection of Youtube videos below.
8 minutes from Jacobs Train Adventures with 11456 arrving by road click here
25 minutes from ADMIRALSCORNER in first half only click here
8 minutes from Somerset Trains click here
8 minutes from Ryan’s Steam Railways click here
2 videos from brunel heritage, first 42 minutes in second half only click here
and second 56 minutes from 42 minutes on click here
36 minutes from BasicTrainContent, 11456 from 14 minutes on click here
32 minutes from Challey Stowe, 11456 from 13 minutes and 24 minutes click here
50 minutes from FrontLineSteam, 11456 at 33 minutes on a variety of services click here
1 hour and 2 minutes from British Loco Films, 11456 at 16, 46 and 56 minutes click here
Saddletank 752 as LMS 11456 left Bury in late April to work 3 days at the Mid Hants Railway (also known as the Watercress Line) for their Gala 25th to 27th April, in company with ‘A’ Class 52322 and the newly-restored LSWR 4-4-0 563. Below a selection of many videos on Youtube from the photographers present.
11 minutes from King Orry click here
6 minutes from Christopher Searle click here
33 minutes from BasicTrainContent click here
8 minutes from Ollie King filmed from a train behind 11456 and 52322 double heading click here
17 minutes from Toby’s Trains click here
22 minutes from Challey Stowe click here
13 minutes from MI Rail click here
17 minutes from 72B Productions click here
2 minutes of 11456 from Joe Light Railway click here
27 minutes from TheSoutherner (click More in description for content list) click here
37 minutes from Green Aspect Videos (click More in description for content list) click here
On 22nd March 2025 Saddletank 752 as LMS 11456 ran 3 full round trips of the East Lancashire Railway in normal service, this coincided with a visit arranged for members of The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society.
A video from that train man of 42 minutes which shows filming mostly from a carriage of a full round trip from Bury click here
14th March 2025 saw our Saddletank 752 as LMS 11456 come to the rescue on the ‘Legends of Steam’ event following the inability of visiting Class B1 loco 61306 to arrive from the National network until late in that day.
2 videos from Ashworth Media featuring 752 –
30 minutes covering various locos click here
10 minutes covering just 752 as 11456 click here
30 minutes from Phil Clarke from the start and 18 minutes click here
10 minutes from Ollie Brooks from 2 minutes click here
25 minutes from pennysteam click here
20 minutes from Line Clear Productions from the start and at 12 minutes click here
To start 2025 our Pug 19 as 11243 featured in a Railway 200 event held at Bury on the East Lancashire Railway on 18th January 2025, featuring opportunities to drive locos as well as to view a display of diesel units and locos, some of which ran shuttle services with 2 steam shunting locos including our Pug.
5 minutes from Preserved Railway click here
18 minutes from Old Oak Trains click here
19 minutes from King Orry click here
32 minutes from Phil Clarke click here
CONTENTS
Vintage Trains Report
Work on 752/11456 in 2024
L&YR Saddletank 11387 and Vinyls on 11456
11456’s visit to Severn Valley Railway
Terrier ‘Fenchurch’ on K&WVR
Tony Cox, an appreciation.
Letters to the Editor
P.Eastham’s spotting days
Racing to & from Blackpool
The Fairly Early Days
East Lancs. Autumn Gala
Front Cover. 11456 at Highley, Severn Valley Railway. Photo Bob3B on Flickr.
Rear Cover. 52044 & more modern traction at Keighley. Photo Roger Hepworth
Fenchurch special at Mytholmes with our 1507. Photo Tom Marshall
Latest ON TRUST issued– with 2025 membership reminders
Issue number 43 for Autumn 2024 has now been posted to members (with membership reminders) and supporters, with the usual mix of news and articles.
This is a little later than first expected due to the need to some last minute issues with printing.
To view details on our ON TRUST page click here (opens in new window)
A General Meeting of the trust was held at the Bury Transport Museum on 2nd March 2024.
The formal business and a general discussion of more recent events and questions to the trustees are recorded in the minutes.
The minutes are in pdf format and open in a new window click here
CIO accounts and reports 2023-2024
This page contains links to the Accounts and Trustees Annual Report covering the period 2023-2024 for submission to the Charity Commission.
Links to these will also be made available with a notice of a General Meeting.
Details of the next General Meeting will be circulated to members in due course.
Each document is in Acrobat pdf format and opens in a new window.
The content of the Accounts document now follows the format recommended by the Charity Commission, note that these are still awaiting the completion of a formal Inspection which is required by the Charity Commission.
2023-2024 Accounts click here
2024 report to Charity Commission click here