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 Not many miles from Rudyard
Lake lies the trackbed of the late Leek and Manifold Railway, which sadly
closed forever more than 70 years ago. Its motive power consisted of a
fine pair of 2-6-4T locomotives built by Kitsons on Leeds. Today, a 1/3 scale replica
of E R Calthrop would be revisiting the line - for the annual Steam Gala.
The line has been covered in these pages before - suffice it to say this
was a "train every 20 minutes" service - using residents "Merlin",
"Excalibur" and the visitor, with trains passing in the loop half-way
along the line, and changing engines on arrival at Rudyard station, the
line's HQ. So without further ado, here are a few photos and video clips
of the day's action...
 Video clips:
all 360 x 288, Windows Media using WM9 codecs
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Excalibur ...scuttles along near the dam
556k; 36s |
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E R Calthrop ...arrives at the loop
977k; 33s |
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On the bank "E R
Calthrop" accelerates toward the dam station
with the 4.20pm departure
586k; 37s |
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Merlin ...gets away from the passing loop
633k; 40s |
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Sunlight and shade
...and "Merlin", running back to Rudyard station
476k;
28s |
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; "\"E R Calthrop\" poses at Rudyard")
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; "\"Merlin\" departs from Rudyard station")
; "Sunlight, shade and \"Merlin\"")
; "Passing loop - Excalibur and E R Calthrop")