Wensleydale Railway - Photo Archive


October 2022
Photographs
During October all our teams have been very busy. This month we have:
1. Photos at Leyburn taken by a drone
2. Various photos showing locos and rolling stock at Leeming Bar
3. Bedale signal box and siding
4. Pacer at Constable Burton
5. WensleyAle Festival 2022
6. The Herriot experience
7. Various photos from around Leeming Bar station
8. Erection of the Polar Express marquees
9. The coal fire now works at Finghall Lane crossing keepers room
10. Bodywork repairs and repainting of a Mk2 carriage
11. Various other work in L:eeming Bar maintenance shed
12. Departure of a Pacer unit from Leeming Bar
13. Our advertising stall at Leeds Model Railway show
14. The arrival of a railway crane at Leeming Bar (see also the dedicated page - link below
15. Matt’s 0-6-0 tank loco being lifted off its wheels to allow further restoration work to proceed
16. Work by the Vegetation team in clearing an area at Constable Burton for the Polar Express ‘North Pole’
17. Visits by some of our volunteers to the Keithley and Worth Valley Railway and the North York Moors Railway
See also the next page showing photos of the WRA(T) Members train which ran in early October
More photos of our 'new' railway crane can be seen here.
More photos of the 0-6-0 tank loco can be seen here

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Photo - Bill Bean
A photo of Shelagh and Kev on Leyburn station platform taken by Bill Bean using his drone. (22/10/2022)
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Photo - Bill Bean
A photo of Shelagh and Kev on Leyburn station platform taken by Bill Bean using his drone. (22/10/2022)
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Photo - Bill Bean
A photo of Shelagh and Kev on Leyburn station platform taken by Bill Bean using his drone. (22/10/2022)
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Photo - Kev Burnitt
Bill Bean taking drone footage for WR (22/10/2022)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Leeming Bar first thing in the morning with diesel loco 37250 (01/10/2022)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Leeming Bar first thing in the morning with diesel loco 37250. (01/10/2022)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Leeming Bar Yard before the start of services. (15/10/2022)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Leeming Bar Station before the start of services with diesel locos D9523 and 37250 (15/10/2022)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Leeming Bar Station before the start of services with a pacer unit in the platform. (18/10/2022)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Leeming Bar Station before the start of services with a pacer unit in the platform. (18/10/2022)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Bedale crossing seen from the old dock before the start of services (15/10/2022)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Bedale signal box from the old dock (15/10/2022)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Bedale siding in the former loop, with restored Shark brake van. (15/10/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
Members of the vegetation team watch a pacer through Constable Burton woods on its way to Leyburn on 19th October 2022. (19/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Some wagons and the 03144 shunter at Leeming Bar (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Some wagons at Leeming Bar (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The 03144 shunter at Leeming Bar (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Pacer unit 56756 at Leeming Bar (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Pacer unit 55740 at Leeming Bar (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Pacer unit 55626 at Leeming Bar (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Unknown Photographer
The large Polar Express marquees erected at Leeming Bar were used (by the kind permission of PNP) for the WensleyAle festival. Here the bar is being set up. (27/10/2022)
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Photo - Richard Holt
The 2022 WensleyAle Festival set up and ready to go (28/10/2022)
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Photo - Richard Holt
The 2022 WensleyAle Festival set up and ready to go (29/10/2022)
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Photo - Richard Holt
The 2022 WensleyAle Festival Beer list (28/10/2022)
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Photo - Richard Holt
The 2022 WensleyAle Festival under way (29/10/2022)
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Photo - Michael Durdan
Some of the entertainment at the 2022 WensleyAle Festival (29/10/2022)
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Photo - Michael Durdan
Some of the entertainment at the 2022 WensleyAle Festival (29/10/2022)
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Photo - Kev Burnitt
The Herriot actors, (thanks to Leyburn Arts & Drama Society – LADS). (22/10/2022)
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Photo - Kev Burnitt
Teresa and her goats (22/10/2022)
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Photo - Kev Burnitt
Teresa with her “kid” (22/10/2022)
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Photo - Unknown Photographer
The cast from the special Herriot weekend we held (22/10/2022)
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Photo - Unknown Photographer
A scene from the special Herriot weekend we held (22/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A member of the Meeming Bar station support group doing some gardening work (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The David Haxby memorial bench has now been relocated to Leeming Bar (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A memorial bench to Alan Kitchen at Leeming Bar (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Work in Leeming Bar station house yard is now nearly complete (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Coping stones being installed on the brickwork above the new Leeming Bar toilet block (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The large Polar Express marquees being erected at Leeming Bar (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The large Polar Express marquees being erected at Leeming Bar (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The large Polar Express marquees being erected at Leeming Bar (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Richard Kirk
Thanks to the Direct Works Team for clearing the blocked chimney at Finghall Lane and also to the Vegetation gang for providing the logs. The open fire is back to keep the frost off the Crossing Keeper just in time for the Polar blast. (27/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The old Mk2 carriage 'Stephanie' in the maintenance shed for bodywork repairs and a repaint (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The old Mk2 carriage 'Stephanie' in the maintenance shed for bodywork repairs and a repaint (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The old Mk2 carriage 'Stephanie' in the maintenance shed for bodywork repairs and a repaint (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The old Mk2 carriage 'Stephanie' in the maintenance shed for bodywork repair and painting. Seen here with the undercoat on (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The old Mk2 carriage 'Stephanie' in the maintenance shed for bodywork repair and painting. Seen here with the undercoat on (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Our road rail crane undergoing maintenance in Leeming Bar shed (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The small digger undergoing repair in Leeming Bar maintenance shed (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Diesel shunter 03144 undergoing maintenance in the Leeming Bar shed (25/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The ex Tyner and Wear shunter looking resplendent in its yellow livery outside Leeming Bar maintenance shed (25/10/2022)
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Photo - John Tong
A Pacer carriage being loaded onto a transporter to go to the Keithley and Worth Valley Railway (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A Pacer carriage being loaded onto a transporter for to go to the Keithley and Worth Valley Railway. The transporter had come to Leeming Bar with the first part of the railway crane. (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A Pacer carriage being loaded onto a transporter to go to the Keithley and Worth Valley Railway (04/10/2022)
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Photo - John Tong
A Pacer carriage being loaded onto a transporter to go to the Keithley and Worth Valley Railway (04/10/2022)
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Photo - Craig Hodkinson
Craig Hodkinson had our railway's advertising stall at the Leeds Model Railway show (21/10/2022)
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Photo - Craig Hodkinson
Craig Hodkinson had our railway's advertising stall at the Leeds Model Railway show (22/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The main part of the railway crane off the transporter and on the track at Leeming Bar (06/10/2022)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A view of the complete railway crane (06/10/2022)
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Photo - Nick Keegan
The 0-6-0 Tank loco which is undergoing restoration at Leeming Bar is being lifted off its wheels to enable further work to be carried out (03/10/2022)
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Photo - Nick Keegan
The 0-6-0 Tank loco which is undergoing restoration at Leeming Bar is being lifted off its wheels and placed on some temporary wooden blocks (03/10/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
Here in mid August the vegetation team are well under way with clearance of trees and dense vegetation in preparation for the Christmas Polar Express trains. This will be the North Pole at Constable Burton. (17/08/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
Barely recognisable, the same view in October at the Constable Burton North Pole site. (19/10/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
Gathering logs at Constable Burton on 19th October 2022. The vegetation team in action. (19/10/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
Gathering logs at Constable Burton on 19th October 2022. The vegetation team in action. (19/10/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
Burning the brash. The vegetation team tidying up at Constable Burton. The passing loop on the left is currently out of service. (19/10/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
Burning the brash. The vegetation team tidying up at Constable Burton. (19/10/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
"Last week in October". The title of a famous poem by Thomas Hardy. Also an apt title for this picture of the vegetation team working in the woods at Constable Burton as Autumn colours abound. (26/10/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
Leaves on the line? The view through the woods at Constable Burton on Weds 26th October 2022. (26/10/2022)
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Photo - Alan Graham
"Homeward bound". The vegetation team at the end of another hard shift at Constable Burton; 26th October 2022. (26/10/2022)
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Photo - Andy Richardson
"Homeward bound". The vegetation team at the end of another hard shift at Constable Burton; 26th October 2022. (26/10/2022)
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Photo - Tug Lee
Some Wensleydale Railway volunteers recently visited the North York Moors Railway. Sir Nigel Gresley seen here at Pickering. (05/10/2022)
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Photo - Tug Lee
Some Wensleydale Railway volunteers recently visited the North York Moors Railway. Sir Nigel Gresley seen here at Pickering. (05/10/2022)
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Photo - Tug Lee
Some Wensleydale Railway volunteers recently visited the North York Moors Railway. Sir Nigel Gresley seen here at Pickering. (05/10/2022)
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Photo - Tug Lee
Some Wensleydale Railway volunteers visited the East Lancs Railway. We were made very welcome, with free train ride and entry to Transport Museum. (28/10/2022)
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Photo - Tug Lee
Some Wensleydale Railway volunteers visited the East Lancs Railway. We were made very welcome, with free train ride and entry to Transport Museum. (28/10/2022)
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