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GWR Steam loco. Manor Class 7808 "Coockham Manor" was in steam and running on a demonstration line at the reading Diesel depot open day in June 1971.
Photo by Michael Taylor (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6 |
Paignton & Dartmouth Railway. 4-6-0 7827 "Lydham Manor" was built in 1950 by British Railways to a 1938 GWR design of C.B. Collett. The Railway was originally called The Torbay Steam Railway and was part of the Dart Valley Railway association. In June 1973 7827 is seen heading an up train from Kingswear to Paignton.
Photo by Michael Taylor, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6 |
Paignton & Dartmouth Railway. 4-6-0 7827 "Lydham Manor" in June 1974 was facing the other way and runs around its train at Kingswear Station. The River Dart is seen in the background.
Photo by Michael Taylor, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6 |
Paignton & Dartmouth Railway. 4-6-0 7827 "Lydham Manor" in June 1973 runs around its train at Kingswear Station on a damp Sunday morning. An interesting fact that I noted at the time: the tender carried a 1913 builders plate, while the locomotive was built in 1950. So, two world wars separated the construction of locomotive and tender.
Photo by Michael Taylor, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (mtaylor6@home.com) Website www.members.home.net/mtaylor6 |
Ex-GWR Manor class locomotive, 7820 Dinmore Manor at Blue Anchor Station on the West Somerset Railway. It is a 'driver experience' train heading towards Minehead on 04-04-04 Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
Ex-GWR Manor class locomotive, 7820 Dinmore Manor at Blue Anchor Station on the West Somerset Railway. It is a 'driver experience' train heading towards Minehead on 04-04-04 Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
Ex-GWR Manor class locomotive, 7820 Dinmore Manor at Blue Anchor Station on the West Somerset Railway. It is a 'driver experience' train heading towards Minehead on 04-04-04 Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
Ex-GWR Manor class locomotive, 7820 Dinmore Manor at Blue Anchor Station on the West Somerset Railway. It is a 'driver experience' train heading towards Minehead on 04-04-04 Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
Ex-GWR Manor class locomotive, 7820 Dinmore Manor at Blue Anchor Station on the West Somerset Railway. It is a 'driver experience' train heading towards Minehead on 04-04-04 Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
Ex-GWR Manor class locomotive, 7820 Dinmore Manor near Blue Anchor Station on the West Somerset Railway. It is a 'driver experience' train heading towards Bishops Lydeard on 04-04-04
Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
Ex-GWR Manor class locomotive, 7820 Dinmore Manor near Blue Anchor Station on the West Somerset Railway. It is a 'driver experience' train heading towards Bishops Lydeard on 04-04-04
Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
Ex-GWR Manor class locomotive, 7820 Dinmore Manor near Blue Anchor Station on the West Somerset Railway. It is a 'driver experience' train heading towards Bishops Lydeard on 04-04-04
Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
GWR 4-6-0 Manor Class no 7820 Dinmore Manor at Minehead station on the West Somerset Railway. The loco is awaiting major restoration work according to owners Dinmore Manor Locomotive Ltd. In this photogaph it has a tarpaulin covering the hole where its funnel would normally be.
Photo by Chris McKenna18/03/2006. |
GWR 4-6-0 Manor Class no 7820 Dinmore Manor at Minehead station on the West Somerset Railway. The loco is awaiting major restoration work according to owners Dinmore Manor Locomotive Ltd. In this photogaph it has a tarpaulin covering the hole where its funnel would normally be.
Photo by Chris McKenna18/03/2006. |
Ex-GWR Manor class 4-6-0 locomotive, 7820 Dinmore Manor with a 'driver experience' train waiting at Blue Anchor Station for the 64XX class 0-6-0PT 6412 to arrive with the regular passenger service for Bishops Lydeard on the West Somerset Railway.
Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
Ex-GWR 4-6-0 Manor class locomotive, 7828 Odney Manor at Minehead Station on the West Somerset Railway. Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
Ex-GWR 4-6-0 Manor class locomotive, 7828 Odney Manor at Minehead Station on the West Somerset Railway. Photo : S.Harper (spiderharper@ntlworld.com) |
GWR 4-6-0 Manor Class no 7828 Odney Manor, well some of it! The boiler is presently elsewhere undergoing major work. Photographed at Minehead station on the West Somerset Railway, during the Spring Steam Gala.
Photo by Chris McKenna18/03/2006. |
Leaving the Teign estuary the Staite Pullman passed through Newton Abbot where it took the line back to the coast at Paignton. Here, the two 4-6-0s are picking up speed, headin west after the slowing for Aller Junction
Photo by Roger Griffiths; jrcs@blueyonder.co.uk |
After taking water the King and Manor took the coastal route past Dawlish and Teignmouth, then turned west to run alongside the estuary of the River Teign. This is a fast stretch of track and both locomotives are seen working at their maximum permitted speed as they passed Bishopsteignton, in just about the only sunny few moments of the day.
Photo by Roger Griffiths; jrcs@blueyonder.co.uk |
Having climbed Wellington Bank and emerged from Whiteball Tunnel, 6024 and 7802 are seen accelerating hard past Eastwood, before a stop for water at Tiverton Parkway
Photo by Roger Griffiths; jrcs@blueyonder.co.uk |
On 28 February 2005 a special train was organised to mark the retirement of Bernard Staite, the long-serving Chairman of Britain’s Steam Locomotive Owners Association. Regrettably Mr Staite is suffering from cancer so the proceeds of the trip were to be devoted to cancer research funds. The train comprised the Orient Express Pullman coaches and was hauled from London, Paddington to Taunton and return, by a preserved “Western” Class diesel-hydraulic. Between Taunton and Paignton and return, taking in the beautiful coastal railway line, the Pullmans were pulled by ex-Great Western Railway 4-6-0s, 6024, King Edward I and 7802, Bradley Manor. Here the pair is seen working hard at the foot of Wellington Bank, facing 5kms of steadily increasing gradients to the summit at Whiteball Tunnel.
Photo by Roger Griffiths; jrcs@blueyonder.co.uk |
A view of the two not so deadly rivals in green, the LNER V2 and a GWR 'Manor' locomotive.
Copyright belongs to A P Ducker. Photographs taken on Nikon M5000 Digital Camera and processed using PhotoPaint V7. Photgraphs taken at Crewe Open Day, 29 May 2003 - the photographic preview. |