LMS Stanier Black 5

[-Oy-]

The only surving LMS Horwich Works Stanier Black 5 - 44932. At a local station, Carnforth, this evening. Returning home after being loaned out for some TV filming. Hence the Southern Railway livery.

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[horseless carriage]

A couple of great photos. To a trainspotter like me, knowing the first digit, the number four, means that the engine is of the LMS fleet. Had it been one of Oliver Bulleid Southern Region Pacifics instead of William Staniers Black Five, then the first digit would have been the number three. How sad am I to know that?

 

[-Oy-]

A couple of great photos. To a trainspotter like me, knowing the first digit, the number four, means that the engine is of the LMS fleet. Had it been one of Oliver Bulleid Southern Region Pacifics instead of William Staniers Black Five, then the first digit would have been the number three. How sad am I to know that?

A '3' for you

A '3'

 

[Pinky]

@-Oy-

Beautiful machines they are .. would give eye-teeth to ride them.

 

[SeaBreeze]

Great photos, thanks for postin them!

 

[Llynn]

Technically, your photographs are perfect. Your compositions are beyond superb. I can't look at the first picture without hearing the Poirot theme in my mind. That shot is full of action even though everything in it is (for the moment) still. Applause.

 

[horseless carriage]

A '3' for you

A '3'

It's a Pacific, wonderful! Did you know that The Golden Arrow (French: Flèche d'Or) was a luxury boat train of the Southern Railway and later British Railways. It linked London with Dover, where passengers took the ferry to Calais to join the Flèche d'Or of the Chemin de Fer du Nord and later SNCF which took them on to Paris. Air travel more or less killed of that service, but not for re-enactors.

 

[horseless carriage]

Nowadays, the two hours forty-nine minutes, that it takes Eurostar to travel from Paris to London, is enough to give air travel, with it's booking in and security checks, a serious challenge to the time it takes travelling between each capital city. But how boring the modern train is, it doesn't exactly set the pulses racing, like the steam trains of old, does it?