Black 5 on The Viaduct

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Bloke with a camera
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Lancashire
LMS Stanier Black 5 No44932. First trip out after overhaul crossing Arnside Viaduct yesterday with the Cumbrian Coast Express. The viaduct crosses the Kent Estury on Morecambe Bay, Lancashire. The last surviving Horwich Works Black 5. Built in 1945.

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What fabulous photos, you have had to have been a ten year old schoolboy, standing too close to the edge of the station platform as one hundred and fifteen tons of Sir William Stanier's technology thundered past, at full speed, so fast indeed that capturing the number was by the daring of being to close for comfort, to appreciate all those images that you have captured so magnificently.

Were it not for the fact that I am taking my 1937 MG to a classic car show today, I could happily sit here and admire those amazing shots of The Stanier Black Five.
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As always, I'm impressed with your photography. In addition, I'm a bit of a train buff. Many of us remember the steam era, although it's one of my earlier memories and I almost missed it. The transition to diesel happened almost over night, and steam was gone by the time I was 10 or 12. All that remain today in the US are a handful of engines that are taken out once every few years to pull modern passenger cars that people pay good money to ride in so they can say they rode a train pulled by steam, even if the cars they sit in are from an entirely different era.
 
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