MOVING ON . . .

Steam Loco J27 says . . . Hi . . . I’m off on my holidays ! Main image today shows me being loaded onto a trailer ready for the journey to the 30th Anniversary Gala of the North Tyneside Steam Railway this weekend. Cannot wait . . . plenty of galloping along the tracks . . . and ice creams too !
Locomotive 65894 was built at Darlington in 1923 as LNER 2392 and allocated to Bank Top Shed, Darlington. Then to Ferryhill, to cover Durham coalfield workings, until moving to York in 1930. Used mainly on local goods trains to Scarborough. In 1926 under the LNER’s reclassification scheme the P3s where reclassified as J27s.
The engine has worked on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway, the North Norfolk Railway, the Nene Valley Railway, the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway , The East Lancashire Railway and the Weardale Railway, where it hauled the official re-opening train in 2004.
Extra shows a Token Exchange as the 11AM train leaves Pickering for Grosmont.