Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway

  • Middleton Hunslet appearance makes Ribble gala a success

    Middleton Hunslet appearance makes Ribble gala a success

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    A SHORT-notice agreement to bring the Middleton Railway’s roving Hunslet Brookes No. 1 (2387/1941) to the Ribble Steam Railway (RSR) for its Autumn Steam Gala helped ensure a good turnout for the end-of-season event.  The former Brookes Chemicals Ltd 14in-cylindered 0-6-0ST had recently come to the end of a period of hire at the Pontypool &…

  • Leeds-built locos show their mettle at Blaenavon gala

    Leeds-built locos show their mettle at Blaenavon gala

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    LOCOMOTIVES from two of Leeds best-known manufacturers stole the show at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway’s (P&BR) gala on September 13-15. The event also included a homecoming of sorts for one of the participants. The Built in Leeds-themed event provided a formal ‘welcome to the fleet’ to ex-East Moors Steelworks (Cardiff) Hunslet ‘48150’ class 0-6-0ST…

  • Brookes No. 1 and Illingworth heading to Blaenavon line gala

    Brookes No. 1 and Illingworth heading to Blaenavon line gala

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    THE Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway (P&BR) will pay tribute to the industrial locomotive manufacturers of Leeds later this summer with a special Built in Leeds gala on September 13-15. The event will centre around Mike Pearce’s Hunslet ‘48150’ class 0-6-0ST Jessie (1873/1937), which recently joined the P&BR fleet following its overhaul and return to East…

  • GKN-liveried Jessie enters Blaenavon line service

    GKN-liveried Jessie enters Blaenavon line service

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    Former Cardiff resident Hunslet 0-6-0ST Jessie (1873/1937) joined the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway’s (P&BR) operational fleet on April 19 following overhaul and conversion back to its original guise by owner Mike Pearce at the Barry Tourist Railway.  As reported (RM April), Jessie has been stripped of its former ‘Thomas’ guise, losing the side tanks, and…

  • Six GCR ‘Windcutter’ wagons now at Blaenavon

    Six GCR ‘Windcutter’ wagons now at Blaenavon

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    A RAKE of six BR 16T ‘Windcutter’ mineral wagons, borrowed from the Great Central Railway on a 10-year loan, will be first run in public by custodian the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway at its May 26-27 ‘Coal Train Weekend.’ The wagons have moved to Blaenavon on an initial 10-year loan (HR 249), with a subsequent…

  • Lottery grant for GWR 2-8-0 heavy freight No. 2874

    Lottery grant for GWR 2-8-0 heavy freight No. 2874

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    The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £57,400 towards the restoration.

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