After June and July below we now go to 9th August when our Saddletank 752 as LMS 11456 ran all day on East Lancashire Railway’s L&Y Running Day, most of the day double-heading with L&Y ‘A’ Class 52322. Pug 19 as LMS 11243 ran a series of driver experience journeys around Bury Bolton Street station.
A 13 minute Youtube from thatrainperson showing the day’s events click here
A short Facebook video from the railway itself showing the double header approaching Brooksbottom click here
We now move to the Worth Valley where our Bogie Brake carriage 1474 is being used in the special train provided for attendees of the Railway Production at Oxenhope, the train runs before and after each performance from Keighley and return – the service is not available for public use. Our 6-wheel Third 1507 and Club Carriage 47 are being used in the production but no videos can be found featuring them apart from a brief view of 1507 half way through this 8 minute Youtube video by Naweeed Azizyar on 12th August click here
A short Youtube video passing Haworth yard from FlameTravelsUK on 17th July click here
A short Facebook video departing Oxenhope from Worth Valley pages on 17th July click here
A short Facebook video passing Haworth Station from Ralph Ingham on 18th July click here
A 7 minute Youtube video has been published by Steaming Around Yorkshire which shows 1474 at various points on the railway on 24th/25th July click here
On 14th June, 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