Waiting for the 4pm Departure

This is a view looking down the platform of Pickering Station as we waited for the 16.00 departure for Whitby on the North York Moors heritage railway.

 

Pickering

A slightly different view of the steam train standing at Pickering Station recently on the basis that you can’t have enough pictures of such subject matter particularly as it recreates one of the joys of my childhood, that of standing at the side of the track waiting with growing excitement as the sound of a steam engine grows into a thunderous roar as it hurtles past with an express……… yes!

 

Railway Guard

Ah, yes, I was spotted!

He was in conversation with a passenger on the platform at Pickering Station and as I took the photo he gave me that rather stern stare….oops. sorry, must go, the steam engine has just moved to the other end of the station…..

 

Loco at Pickering

A second view of the steam locomotive captured at Pickering Station last week.

These engines were known as Black Fives and were a highly successful mixed traffic engines built by the London Midland and Scottish Railway in the late 1930s

 

Steam at Pickering

We had driven north from Sheffield in Yorkshire and stopped off in York to visit the National Railway Museum. (Some photos to come)

We were heading for Northallerton where the intention was to undertake some further family history research at the county archive. After leaving York we stopped briefly at Pickering where I was fortunate to capture this working steam locomotive on its arrival from Whitby via the North York Moors Railway line. The unexpected is almost always more exciting and although I had enjoyed the NRM, there’s nothing quite like seeing a steam engine actually alive, breathing smoke and leaking steam.