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    A full day of steam action with BR black-liveried 4F Class No.43924 hauling a suburban passenger set, Wednesday 24th January 2018
Keighley, Yorkshire

***ONLY 10 TICKETS LEFT***

A full day of steam action with BR black-liveried 4F Class No.43924 hauling a suburban passenger set, Wednesday 24th January 2018

A day of potentially spectacular Winter steam action on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway using British Railways black-liveried 4F No.43924 at the head of a short suburban passenger train in deepest Winter.

£75.00

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With grateful thanks to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, we are pleased to offer the second of two full days using the Railway’s resident Fowler-designed ‘4F’ Class No.43924, today at the head of a short suburban passenger train. Travel will be by train with ladders provided when boarding and alighting between stations, though this will be kept to a minimum. The locomotive is in British Railways unlined black livery and should very much look ‘the part’ at the head of a rake of maroon-liveried suburban coaching stock of the BR era. 

The ‘4F’ was built for the Midland Railway in 1920 as No.3924, entering service in 1920. The Midland Railway classified the locomotives as 3835 Class of which the first were built in 1911, though they were built right up until 1941 by the LMS.  Of the four members of the class preserved, this is the only one of the earlier locos built by the Midland Railway to survive. [Five were also built for the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway and later absorbed into LMS stock]. The KWVR ‘4F’ was numbered 43924 on nationalization and was amongst the final 22 members of the class withdrawn by British Railways during 1965, No.43924 being sold to Woodham Brothers scrap yard at Barry in South Wales. It was purchased by The 4F Society and has the distinction of being the first loco to leave Woodham Brothers’ scrap yard following the end of standard gauge steam on British Railways in 1968. 

After arriving at Haworth in the Summer of 1970, some extensive work was required to return the locomotive to traffic, a milestone achieved in 1974. Its most recent return to traffic was after a major overhaul in 2011, so the loco’s paintwork has had a chance to ‘weather in’! The engine is now owned by the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway which purchased the loco from those who initially preserved her in 1990.

Our day will start from and finish at Haworth station (satellite navigation BD22 8NJ, where there is pay and display car parking available) and we will take in as many of the better locations along the length of the five-mile branch as possible, starting at 08.00 in the morning and finishing at sunset. There will be no night shoot on this occasion.

This has the potential to be another very photographically productive event, taking place as it does in deepest Winter. We look forward to many of you joining us for a day of classic branch line steam atmosphere.

Cost is £75.00 per person.


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