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Another snippet from my 1953 Daily Mail.
A reminder of the damage and loss of life during those 1953 east coast floods.
I can remember the wild night of the 31st Jan.
On our last day of the 2023 trip we backpacked out to 3rd Beach in Olympic N.P. to spend the night. It was relaxing to just hang out, walk the beach and watch the Bald Eagles fish.
Oops, someone left the gates open and let the sun in!
Breach in the clouds, breach the fence and breach in the snow.
D9516 awaits departure from Wansford with the 15:10 service to Yarwell Junction, 3rd May 2009.
Locomotive History
One of a class of fifty six Type 1 0-6-0 diesel hydraulic (subsequently class 14) locomotives it was built at Swindon Works in 1964 for shunting and short trip freight duties. The locomotive is powered by a six cylinder Paxman Ventura 6YJXL engine producing 650bhp, connected to a Voith L217U hydraulic transmission and Hunslet gearbox. The axles were connected by coupling rods and driven by a jackshaft located under the cab, between the second and third axles. Initially allocated to Landore MPD in South Wales it was one of thirty three that transferred in January 1967 to Hull (Dairycoates) for North Eastern Region duties and was withdrawn from there in April 1968. D9516 was sold to the Stewarts and Lloyds Minerals Ltd. (subsequently part of the British Steel Corporation) for use on its extensive rail system connecting the local ironstone quarries round Corby (Northamptonshire) with the steelworks and arrived at Corby in November 1968. It was numbered 56 in the Corby fleet. With the subsequent contraction of the British steel industry and closure of the quarries and then Corby Steelworks itself in 1980 D9516 was once again surplus to requirements and was acquired for preservation in the early 1981 moving initially to Loughborough and the Great Central Railway.
A line of spare mechanical ground signals stand in the yard at Weybourne, North Norfolk Railway, 3rd August 2016.
Exactly 2 years to the day from when we first spotted our 2nd Albino Squirrel in this area!
This is now the 3rd Albino Squirrel we have seen in this location and the 4th we have seen locally.