Steam in the 1960s: Hellifield
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Published 2024-05-19
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Im looking forward to travelling from Hellifield down the Ribble valley line when services commence on June 8th!
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Cheers for posting this - I know Hellifield pretty well, as I have relatives who live there and I made a a number of trips up to the station in my younger days to watch the trains whilst my late Grandad was sorting out the gardens at my folks' shop and house in the village. Sadly the shed and several sidings had gone by then, though there was still goods traffic on the "lanky" line down to Clitheroe & Blackburn and Hellifield South box was kept busy.
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Thanks for this. One of my earliest memories is of me and my dad sitting in the car on the road just north of Horton in Ribblesdale and watching one of those anhydrite trains going south - that would have been 1966 or 67.
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What memories I'm afraid I missed most of this but I remember steam in South Yorkshire I think it finished in 1966, thankyou for sharing this
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These are incredible, thank you 👍
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Great nostalgic, historical shots. Thank you!
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Thanks . Most interesting .
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Thank you. This must be close to the end of steam.
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Stunningly good, much appreciated posting.
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Many remaining bar and circle LMS nameboards. I have a slide of one as I passed Clapham on the Little North Western about this time.
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Travelled from Blackburn to Hellifield many a time in early 60's. The highlight had to be the "Thames Clyde" and the 'Waverley' steam hauled in those days. Thank you for posting
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Superb that film of a pair of 9fs was amazing
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4:40, Hellifield shed after closure was used for long-term storage of around 12 of the National Collection of locomotives, such as the M.R. 4-2-2 Spinner" Crab 42700, EMU M28249M and a Kirtley 0-6-0
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I well remember Hellifield in the 1960's but at this distance in time it is distressing to see the sheer neglect of steam locomotives. Perhaps in those days we simply accepted it!
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Happy memories of my Leeds-Glasgow train commuting in 1978. Always remember the guy walking down the side of the train at Carlisle tapping each wheel with a hammer on the Sunday 19.30 return. The 16.10 from Glasgow on Friday was like a private club in the buffet car. Same group of us all with our 8 cans of Tennants lager carry-on. #goodolddays
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Excellent, thanks for posting.
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Just love all this so good 👍❤️😊
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They did a marvelous restoration job on Hellifield Station in the 90's. Before that, it had got into a really dilapidated state!!
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Sad to see how run down n dirty the steam locos had got by thistime
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Amazing!
