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On a grey day at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway.
The loco is visiting from its home on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
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After many hours of frantic activity by volunteers, Haworth yard appears calm and peaceful on the eve of Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s steam gala on 10th March 2022. All ready for the following morning’s busy schedule of services are, from left: London Midland and Scottish Railway Jubilee Class No. 45596 ‘Bahamas’; Taff Vale Railway Class 02 0-6-2T No. 85; Great Western Railway Collett 5700 class 0-6-0PT 'pannier tank' No. 7714; LMS No. 46100 'Royal Scot’; and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Class 25 0-6-0 No. 52044.
A friend of mine was an actress in the railway children sequel and thought I'd spend the day down there. Only just got around to my images as finished work on my first of a series of published landscape books. Here 85 'Taff Vale' stops at oakworth station for its final run of the day
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Taff Vale Railway Class 02 No 85 heads to Oxenhope on the 1050 Keighley - Oxenhope,photographed on the bank leaving Keighley on 30/01/2022
Network Rail Class 73 locomotives 73952 "Janis Kong" and 73951 "Malcolm Brinded"
1Z96 09.42 Derby RTC Serco to Cardiff Taff Vale Sidings
Haselour Lane, Elford, Staffordshire
30587 Class 0298 LSWR 2-4-0WT
& 85 Class 02 Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T
In glorious afternoon sunshine at the Worthy Valley Railway, nineteenth century tank engine design is well represented by visiting 30587 and resident 85 as the veterans head toward Oxenhope.
The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire have historically held Spring Galas in early March, but because of COVID this year's event had to be cancelled.
The Railway, however, is once again planning to re-open on Saturday 17th April when hopefully the present restrictions will be lifted.
So by way of a personal homage, I'm posting three shots taken - early morning in and around Haworth Locomotive Yard on a very cold 7.3.2020.
Secondly, at 7.40am, we see two more 'Home Fleet' engines. Piloting LMSR Fowler 4F 0-6-0 No. 43924 (engulfed in steam) is Taff Vale Railway Class O2 0-6-2T No. 85. They're firstly exiting the Engine Yard's Loop before then reversing onto the main running line as ' Double Headed Light Engines' to Ingrow West - thereafter collecting empty carriages for the day's later first passenger service from Keighley.
52044 and Taff Vale 85 climb towards Oakworth at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway on 10 March 2023.
Before the first UK COVID 'Lockdown' at the end of March 2020, the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway held their very successful Spring Gala between 6th-8th March 2020.
13.30pm on Friday 6th March sees Taff Vale Railway Class O2
2-6-2T No. 85 vigorously climb the long and ascending Great Northern Strait's gradient after leaving Keighley - with the early afternoon's freight delivery to Ingrow (West) for its expectant customers.
LMSR Ivatt Class 2MT 2-6-2T No. 41241 is also providing a helping hand as the 'Rear Banking Engine'
Ex-LNWR Webb 'Coal Tank' 0-6-2T no.1054 leads Ex Taff Vale Railway O2 0-6-2T no.85 as they head into Oxenhope with the down 13:45 Keighley-Oxenhope train.
Taff Valley Railway Class 02 0-6-2T No. 85 and London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Ivatt Class 2MT 2-6-2T No. 41241 departing Haworth with a passenger service to Oxenhope during Keighley & Worth Valley heritage railway’s steam gala on 12th March 2022.
Having originally been built for the Taff Vale Railway, 85 was sold by the Great Western Railway into colliery service in the North East before entering preservation by the KWVR in 1970.
No. 85 races up Keighley Bank with the 'shuttle' train as 1054 assists from the rear during the Spring steam gala at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway 11th March 2023.
37894 heads for Aberthaw power station with a trainload of coal from Tower Colliery as it passes Morganstown, north of Radyr.
This was my last photograph on a successful, albeit low shot count day shooting coal trains in the Cardiff Valleys. We had shot the empties that formed this train on the approach to Tower Colliery ( flic.kr/p/2nHHz2R ) , shot it on the loading pad, shot it leaving and then chased it down for a further two shots.
This, the former Taff Vale Railway main line once had a four track formation but was reduced to double track shortly after my visit . It is now electrified.
Former Taff Vale Railway no. 85, built by Neilson, Reid & Co. in 1899, climbs Oakworth Bank on the 14th January 2017 with the five coach 13.15 Keighley to Oxenhope service.
Hengoed Viaduct is a Grade II* listed railway viaduct, located above the village of Maesycwmmer, in Caerphilly county borough, South Wales. Originally built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway (NA&HR) across the Rhymney River, it is now part of National Cycle Route 47
Ex Taff Vale Railway No. 85 waits for clearance to continue its positioning moves after refuelling Embsay on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway.
Taffs Well to Pontypridd Walk. Looking back down the hill towards Taffs Well through a canopy of trees.
This Rhymney Railway line was opened throughout from Rhymney for freight on 25 February 1858 and to passengers on 31 March. It joined the Taff Vale Railway at Walnut Tree Junction, Taffs Well, with the RR having running powers onwards to Cardiff. As relations between the RR and TVR began to sour, the former decided to build a direct line into Cardiff, the route via Caerphilly Tunnel being opened on 1 April 1871.
From then on the old route became freight only, mostly with coal trains from the Rhymney Valley. The first two miles or so to Penrhos Junction became known as the 'Big Hill' due to the continuous 1 in 47 grade, although fortunately most of the trains facing the climb were of empty coal wagons being returned to collieries in the Rhymney Valley.
By the early 1980s traffic was well on the decline and it was considered that all could be handled via Heath Junction, and little traffic had passed via Taffs Well for some time before the section to Penrhos Junction and on to Aber Junction was taken out of use on 21 June 1982. That was not quite the end as a railtour, the Monmouthshire Railway Society's 'Rod Mill Rattler', made a trip up the 'Big Hill' on 23 October that year. After that, the track was left in place for some time in case there were problems via Heath, so lifting did not start until 1984.
1054 &85 give it everything as they charge up Keighley Bank during the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Spring steam gala 11th March 2023.
52044 and Taff Vale 85 climb towards Oxenhope at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway on 10 March 2023.
Large Logo 37402 "Oor Jullie" and Colas 37057 "Barbara Arbon" power through Stenson Junction in charge of the Derby R.T.C. to Cardiff Canton Taff Vale Sidings Test Train on January 7th 2025.
Taff Vale Railway Class 02 0-6-2T 85 on Vintage Stock heads south towards Oxenhope on the 1515 Keighley - Oxenhope Service,photographed between Haworth and Oxenhope on 10/07/2022
Network Rail Class 73 locomotives 73952 "Janis Kong" and 73951 "Malcolm Brinded"
1Z96 09.42 Derby RTC Serco to Cardiff Taff Vale Sidings
Haselour Lane, Elford, Staffordshire
A walk from Taffs Well to Pontypridd on the Taff Trail, popular with walkers, cyclists, horse riders and runners.
The first overbridge (Old Nantgarw Road) north of Nantgarw on the well metalled trackbed, now part of the Taff Trail, that was formerly the Pontypridd, Caerphilly & Newport Railway (PC&N) that (nominally) linked the towns of its title from 1884 to 1965. In practice the railway only owned the five miles from Pontypridd to Penrhos Junction and another two miles between Caerphilly and Machen, for the rest using running powers over the lines of other companies.
Of further relevance is that it was in reality controlled by the Alexandra Dock & Railway Company (ADR), who wanted to be able to tap into the coalfields of the Taff Valley and divert Cardiff bound coal to their own docks in Newport. This was a quite reasonable aspiration as at that time it was commonplace for ships to have to stand for days off Cardiff waiting access to the docks there, whilst coal stood for days waiting to be loaded.
A passenger service was started on 28 December 1887 and the three or four trains ran non-stop between Pontypridd and Caerphilly until a number of stopping places were opened in April 1904, most of these being closed between 1930 and the end of all passenger services on 17 September 1956.
Until 1903 all trains had been worked by the Taff Vale Railway, but in that year they gave notice to end this and the ADR took over, using locomotives that had recently been displaced by electrification of the Mersey Railway, quite a change of environment.
One from Saturday night in Yorkshire on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway...
Taff Vale No. 85 on loan from the KWVR for Embsay's 'Santa Special' season prepares to leave Bolton Abbey Station with an evening Staff Train, with Austerity No. 35 'Norman' on the tail.
Special permission was gained to access the lineside for a unique perspective.
Ex Taff Vale Railway O2 0-6-2T no.85 climbs out up Keighley gradient with the 12:15 Keighley-Ingrow shuttle.
Taff Vale O2 class No.85 is seen at Mytholmes with the vintage train working the 1645 Keighley to Oxenhope service on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
Taken on the 10th July 2022.
Steam train driver Dave Nash on the footplate of Taff Valley Railway No. 85 on the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway. No. 85 was built in 1899 for the Taff Vale Railway in South Wales.
Most people passing here would not recognise this as a bridge, and would have no idea that a railway once passed underneath. This is Pen-y-lan Road, where it crossed the Roath Branch of the Taff Vale Railway. Never with a passenger service, the line opened on 23 April 1888, closing as a through route (including under this bridge) on 6.5.1968.
13.3.2022.
Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T No 85 reaches the top of the bank with the 11.20 'local' to Ingrow.
KWVR Spring Gala.
Taff Vale Class 02 No.85 Arriving at Ingrow West on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway steam gala weekend working a Keighley to Ingrow West shuttle service on Saturday 11th March 2023.
Ex Taff Vale Railway O2 0-6-2T no.85 heads past the industrial area of Keighley with the 16:00 down Keighley-Oxenhope train.
Lancashire & Yorkshire 0-6-0 no. 52044 pilots Taff Vale tank no. 85 away from Damems Junction on 10th March 2023 with the 13.45 service from Keighley to Oxenhope.
Taff Vale Railway Company 0-6-2t no. 85 hauls the 14:15 Keighley to Oxenhope service into Oakworth on Sunday, 12th January 2020.
22.3.2025.
Taff Vale Railway 02 Class 0-6-2T No 85 climbs away from Keighley with the shuttle service to Ingrow.
KWVR Spring Gala.
On hire to Colas, recent returnee to the mainline, Andania Engineering owned Class 37/4, 37402 'Oor Wullie' heads south through Besford, Worcestershire, working the 1Z77 10:56 Derby RTC Serco to Cardiff Taff Vale Sidings top and tail with Colas Class 37/0, 37057.
1899 built Taff Vale Railway O2 Class,No.85. heads a demonstration freight through Goathland station on the second day of the North Yorkshire Moor Railway steam gala.
Taff Vale Railway Class O2 0-6-2T Number 85 heads south on a Keighley - Oxenhope Vintage Service at Haworth ,photographed on 07/07/2019
Showing a volcanic exhaust is Ex Taff Vale Railway O2 0-6-2T no.85 on the GN Straight with 12:30 down Keighley-Oxenhope train.
With the sun being hit and miss it was 50/50 as to whether it would grace Tamworth with its presence at the required time. Luckily it tried to make an appearance as 37405 and 37407 pass Portway Lane running as 1Z33 Cardiff Taff Vale Sidings to Derby RTC Serco.
After observing the two minute remembrance silence in Damems Loop (hence the wreath), Ex Taff Vale Railway O2 0-6-2T no.85 brings the 10:50 down Keighley-Oxenhope train up the Oakworth Bank.
30587 Class 0298 LSWR 2-4-0WT &
85 Class 02 Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T
A pair of nineteenth century tank engines forge a path through Topfield on the Worth Valley Railway, as visiting well tank 30587 and resident Taff Vale No 85 head toward Oxenhope during 2017's Small Engines Gala.
13.4.2022.
Built in 1899 by Nelson & Reed of Glasgow and sold by the GWR in 1926 to the Taff Vale Railway, Class 02 0-6-2T No 85 approaches Oxenhope with the 12.21 passenger service from Keighley.
KWVR.
13.4.2022.
Taff Vale Railway's Class 02 0-6-2T No 85 approaches the platform at Oxenhope with the 12.21 passenger service from Keighley.
At 123 years of age this loco looks in fine fettle.
KWVR.
Taffs Well to Pontypridd Walk. Looking back down the 'Big Hill', as this was known in the days that it was a steeply graded railway line.
This Rhymney Railway line was opened throughout from Rhymney for freight on 25 February 1858 and to passengers on 31 March. It joined the Taff Vale Railway at Walnut Tree Junction, Taffs Well, with the RR having running powers onwards to Cardiff. As cordial relations between the RR and TVR began to sour, the former decided to build a direct line into Cardiff, the route via Caerphilly Tunnel being opened on 1 April 1871.
From then on the old route became freight only, mostly with coal trains from the Rhymney Valley. The first two miles or so to Penrhos Junction became known as the 'Big Hill' due to the continuous 1 in 47 grade, although fortunately most of the trains facing the climb were of empty coal wagons being returned to collieries in the Rhymney Valley.
By the early 1980s traffic was well on the decline and it was considered that all could be handled via Heath Junction, and little traffic had passed via Taffs Well for some time before the section to Penrhos Junction and on to Aber Junction was taken out of use on 21 June 1982. That was not quite the end as a railtour, the Monmouthshire Railway Society's Rod Mill Rattler, made a trip up the 'Big Hill' on 23 October that year. After that, the track was left in place for some time in case there were problems via Heath, so demolition did not start until 1984.