TEBAY RESTART: A heavy downpour greets ‘Jubilee’ No. 45699 Galatea at Tebay, Cumbria, as it restarts from an unscheduled stop and begins to tackle the stiff climb to Shap with the 11 coach‘Cumbrian Mountain Express’ in tow on July 15. Until the end of steam in the 1960s, this is where expresses like this would have stopped for a banker from Tebay shed – but there was no such luxury available to Galatea on this occasion, which performed valiantly in the conditions and lifted its train over the 5½ miles to the summit in around 15 minutes.
PETER AINSWORTH
VICTORIAN MARVEL The driver (sat on the right) keeps an eye on the road ahead while the fireman checks the state of the fire in 1890-built Manning Wardle L Class 0-6-0ST Sir Berkeley, as the recently restored engine tackles the climb from Moor Road to Park Halt on the Middleton Railway in Leeds on April 15.
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