London Midland and Scottish Railway “Jinty” 0-6-0T 47324 double heads with Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 0-6-0 901 on the 15:00 service from Bury Bolton Street as it heads up the valley to Rawtenstall north of Ramsbottom, 24th May 2009.
London Midland and Scottish Railway “Jinty” 0-6-0T 47324 double heads with Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 0-6-0 901 on the 15:00 service from Bury Bolton Street as it heads up the valley to Rawtenstall north of Ramsbottom, 24th May 2009.
24th May 2009
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United States Army Transportation Corps, class S160 2-8-0 5197 is ready to depart from Bury Bolton Street station with the 13:00 service to Rawtenstall during the East Lancs Railway 1940’s Wartime Weekend, 24th May 2009. The S160 was designed in May 1942 by Major J.W. Marsh from the Railway Branch of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps would later become a part of the Transportation Corps (USATC). The S160 was an Austerity design with many features chosen for fast construction rather than long life, eg. axlebox grease lubricators were used, and rolled plates were preferred to castings. Around eight hundred were shipped to the United Kingdom during 1943/44 and around four hundred were utilised by the UK Railways prior to their transfer to Europe during 1944/45. 5197 however was not one of these locomotives and was delivered direct from the USA to China in 1945 and where it worked until the mid 1990s as Chinese State Railway's class KD6 No 463. It was rescued from being broken up by the Chinese and brought to the UK in 1995, being delivered to the Llangollen Railway for restoration, entering service in 1999. In 2001 it moved to the Churnet Valley Railway where it is normally based.Previous | NextLMS Fowler 3F “Jinty” 0-6-0T 47324 arrives at Bury Bolton street station with the 10:05 service from Rawtenstall, 24th May 2009. 47324 represents the ultimate development of the Midland Railway six-coupled tank, a design which had started in the 19th century. On formation of the LMS in 1923 the Midland design was used by Fowler as the basis of the LMS standard 0-6-0T and four hundred and twenty two examples were built between 1924 and 1930. 47324 was built by the North British Locomotive Company at their Hyde Park works, Glasgow in June 1926 as LMS 16407. She entered service at the former Caledonian Railway MPD at Dawsholm (to the west of Glasgow). In 1931, 16407 was transferred to Ayr MPD where she was used as a station pilot as well as working other passenger and shunting duties. In August 1933, 16407 was transferred south to England and was allocated to Liverpool Edge Hill MPD and then shortly afterwards transferred the short distance to Liverpool Speke Junction MPD. Under the 1934 LMS renumbering scheme 16407 became 7324. By 1939 it had been transferred across the Mersey to Birkenhead MPD where it would remain for the next twenty seven years. After forty years in service it was among one of the last survivors when withdrawn in December 1966. Following withdrawal it was sold to Woodham Brothers for breaking up and moved to Barry. However it was purchased for preservation and was the eighty ninth locomotive to leave Barry when it moved to Mid Hants Railway in February 1978. 47324 re-entered traffic following its last overhaul in April 2005.

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