'Shap Summit Re-enactment' perhaps nearing Oxenhope?
In former 'Steam Days' banking engines were deployed at Tebay shed to assist freight trains, especially, climb the steep, long and winding gradient to Shap Summit in Cumbria on the West Coast Main Line.
Could this early morning freight train on 8th March 2020, making the steep ascent from Haworth towards Oxenhope during the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway's 2020 Spring Gala, evoke those great memories? Perhaps.
Leading is BR Standard Class 2 2-6-0 78022 and banking is LMSR Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45212.
'Shap Summit Re-enactment' perhaps nearing Oxenhope?
In former 'Steam Days' banking engines were deployed at Tebay shed to assist freight trains, especially, climb the steep, long and winding gradient to Shap Summit in Cumbria on the West Coast Main Line.
Could this early morning freight train on 8th March 2020, making the steep ascent from Haworth towards Oxenhope during the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway's 2020 Spring Gala, evoke those great memories? Perhaps.
Leading is BR Standard Class 2 2-6-0 78022 and banking is LMSR Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45212.