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After a cloudy photo charter with this loco a few days previously, it was nice to grab a sunny shot of it before it leaves the GCR - 30541
Kinchley Lane, 4/2/17
1350 Loughborough Central to Leicester North
Tiger striped Q class Q4017 sits stabled with the Acid consist in West Kalgoorlie yard on 26-4-09.
The WBAX boxcars fender wagons would soon be replaced with WOAX open wagons.
Stabled in West Kalgoorlie Yard waiting to work ore trains between Esperance and West Kalgoorlie is loco Q4006 in the Orange ARG scheme minus logos on 23-6-09
Q class 30543 (30541) sits in platform 1 at Loughbourough Station, Great Central Railway. 1st February 2017. More as 30543 at -
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After running from Kalgoorlie towards Parkeston to assist a failed 5MP9, Q4005 had made it only a couple of hundred metres before itself failed with Q4005,SCT015,SCT007 once again a failure and waiting for another assistance loco on 13-7-13
My final shot of visiting Maunsell Q 30541 was the only shot of Sunday in the sun, having seemed to have evaded any real light all weekend, here the locomotive is seen passing Rabbit Bridge bound for Leicester
Q4007 places acid wagons into the loading complex at Kwinana where later they will be taken to Forrestfield for transport to Kalgoorlie on the nightly goods 24-10-08
GNR(I) Q Class 4-4-0 locomotive No. 131, returned to steam after more than 50 years, is pictured with the RPSI Mk2 set at the NIR depot at York Road, Belfast, having picked up a 'Dutch' generator van, 4 April 2018.
Prospector Railcars 905,922 from Perth to Kalgoorlie, pass Q308 long end leading on a ballast train at Koolynobbing on 5-3-1999
Departs Horstead Keynes en-route for East Grinstead at the Branchline Gala, Bluebell Railway, 15/03/2019
28.1.2017. Visiting the GCR from the Bluebell Railway, SR Maunsell 'Q' Class 0-6-0 No 30541 passes Woodthorpe with a train for Leicester.
Q Class 30545 Seen top and tailed with 31649
L.C.G.B "The Maunsell Commemorative Rail Tour"
Information below courtesy of Wikipedia,
Merton Abbey was a railway station in Merton on the Tooting, Merton and Wimbledon Railway. It was opened in 1868 and closed on 1 January 1917. It was reopened by the Southern Railway (SR) on 27 August 1923.
When the City & South London Railway (now part of the London Underground's Northern line) was extended from Clapham Common to Morden in 1926, it opened stations at Colliers Wood and South Wimbledon. The new Underground stations captured much of Merton Abbey station's traffic and led to its closure to passengers on 3 March 1929. The station remained open for goods services until 1 May 1972 and goods trains continued to run to a nearby private siding serving the Lines Brothers ("Tri-ang") toy factory until 1975. After closure of the passenger service, the junction at Tooting Junction was removed on 10 March 1934 and the up line from Merton Park on 3 November 1935.
The site of the station lies under a road, the Merantun Way
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I have started to collect a number of original slides (with copyright) 'most' of which probably haven’t been seen before. Some come with image information and some don't. Please feel free to leave a comment if you know locations, dates, numbers etc, it would be much appreciated. I have uploaded these at a low resolution, please don't copy / download without my prior permission.
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The only surviving Southern Railway Q Class 30541 is seen pulling into Sheffield Park Station on the Bluebell Railway. This will haul a special Golden Arrow Pullman service.
Q Class 30530
RCTS Railtour "The Midhurst Belle"
Seen at the now closed Fittleworth station.
Fittleworth railway station served the village of Fittleworth in the county of West Sussex in England. It was on the London Brighton and South Coast Railway's line between Pulborough and Midhurst. The station closed to passengers in February 1955.
Further tour info can be found at the great Six Bells Junction website:
www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/641018mb.html
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I have started to collect a number of original slides (with copyright) 'most' of which probably haven’t been seen before. Some come with image information and some don't. Please feel free to leave a comment if you know locations, dates, numbers etc, it would be much appreciated. I have uploaded these at a low resolution, please don't copy / download without my prior permission.
I only collect slides on the understanding that the full copyright transfers over to me. If you believe there to be a copyright issue please drop me an email.
Built as a basic goods engine to replace life-expired pre-grouping locomotives, this was Maunsell's final design as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway. It could be described as a competent though not outstanding engine. Bulleid, Maunsell's successor, improved the draughting arrangements with a multiple blast-pipe arrangement and new chimney, and it was in this condition that 541 was withdrawn from service in 1964. Sent to Barry scrapyard, like many other locos there it escaped the cutter's torch and was bought by preservationists.
In 1973 it was moved to Ashchurch in Gloucestershire and moved on in 1978 to the Bluebell, where its owning group merged with those of U-class No.1618 and S15 No.847 to form the Maunsell Locomotive Society. The blast pipe and chimney arrangement have been further modified using BR Class 4 components, in the same way as BR had done to some of the class. This has the advantage of returning the locomotive visually to very close to its original form. Major restoration work saw it return to steam in 1983, operating for the following decade in Maunsell livery as No.541.
An overhaul started in July 2011, and the Loco Works Working Group, who started by overhauling the tender, have also assisted with work on the loco itself. It returned to service on 28 April 2015, carrying BR livery as No.30541, and received a major valve and piston exam in 2017.
30543 (AKA 30541) on holiday from the Bluebell Railway with the minerals. Failing light at Rabbit Bridge on the Great Central.
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Taken on November 3rd 1963
Ex-Southern Railway Maunsell Q Class 0-6-0s 30543 and 30531 at Havant, during the Locomotive Club of Great Britain ‘The Hayling Farewell Rail Tour’ on a bright sunny day in November 1963..
30543 had entered service in March 1939, and was withdrawn in December 1964, and scrapped in May 1965. 30531 had entered service in June 1938, and was withdrawn in July 1964, and scrapped in December of that year. One example has been preserved, after ending up at Woodham Brothers scrapyard at Barry....
Restored from an under-exposed orange-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
Ex-SR Maunsell Q Class 0-6-0 30545 in the winter sun at Eastleigh shed in February 1962, with a similarly filthy BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4T behind.
30545 was withdrawn in April 1965, and scrapped in September of that year. One member of the class has survived, on the Bluebell Railway.
Eastleigh steam shed closed in July 1967, but today (2018) the site is still in railway use..
Restored from a grainy original..
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This is former Great Northern Railway Q class steam engine numbered 131 which is now operated by the RPSI in Ireland. This picture was taken at Whitehead. Here the locomotive takes on water.
The sun has set as the Kalgoorlie freight to Perth is about to depart with Q311,Q314,L255 up the front on 5-3-1999
SR Maunsell Q Class 0-6-0 30545 reversing at the art-deco ('Streamline Moderne') Wimbledon signal box, during the Locomotive Club of Great Britain 'Maunsell Commemorative' railtour, in January 1965. Maunsell U Class 2-6-0 31639 is out of sight, at the other end of the train..
30545 was withdrawn soon after this photo was taken, in April 1965, and scrapped in September. One member of the class has survived, and is currently (2018) back in service on the Bluebell Railway, after overhaul in 2015:
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Wimbledon signal box still exists, but is in rather a run-down state..
Restored from a grainy original..
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Q class 541 heads a rake of Southern rolling stock on the Bluebell Railway. Approaching Three Arch Bridge from the Sheffield Park direction.
Approaching Kinchley Lane bridge, Q class 0-6-0 leads N15 777 "Sir Lamiel" with the 15:20 from Loughborough Central to Leicester North. Both locos are the last survivors of their type. The Q class was the penultimate design of 0-6-0 to be built for a main line company. They were also Richard Maunsell's final design for the Southern Railway. They were a competent, unspectacular design, and somewhat eclipsed by Bulleid's 0-6-0 Q1 class. 30541 was visiting the Great Central Railway for a short visit. It normally lives on the Bluebell Railway.
Date - 6th July 2023.
Location - Wattleup, Perth, WA.
Train # - 4420 Murrin Murrin
Route - Leonora to Kalgoorlie.
Locomotive - Q4018.
Operator - Aurizon.
Client - Minara Resources
Painted in the ARG orange and black, Q4004 turns on the Kalgoorlie loco turntable on 5-3-2008. Q4004 was originally Q304 when delivered to Westrail before ARG renumbered the loco. Kalgoorlie loco depot is also now closed.
The Q class loco seen at Horsted Keynes station, Easter weekend 2017. The running lines had just been replaced, which included new ballast, which makes the shot difficult for its levels!
Bluebell Railway, East Sussex.
4th January 2016. Q class 30541 on a goods train at the Bluebell Railway. Despite a trek through some badly waterlogged fields and standing in a heavy downpour we were rewarded with a few breaks of good light.
Holywell.