Category: On Trust

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)

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

Harvey Scowcroft                                                 
Small Boilered L&YR 0-8-0s                             
More L&YR coaches in South Wales                                                      
Ken Roberts                                              
Racing to Blackpool and L&YR No. 1008                                                     
The Very Early Days (of the Pug Fund)                                                    
Carriage Restoration 34 years ago                                                               
11456 at Didcot                                                          
52044 on Vintage Trains K&WVR                                          
Last train to Birstall                                                      
                                                                                

Front cover – 51456 on Didcot’s coaling stage
Rear cover – 51456 in the passenger platform at Didcot and on the turntable with the GWR’s Gas Turbine locomotive in the background

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

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

• 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

• 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 29^th April 2022

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• 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)

• 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

• 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