| This gallery is the usual look at the locos seen on the East Lancashire Railway during various visits there in July 2009.
This gallery excludes special events, such as the Summer Diesel Gala, which took place over the 3rd, 4th and 5th of July, these are shown in their own separate gallery, most of the shots shown here were taken on midweek or 'non' railway event weekends, and feature images taken at various points along the route, mainly at Rawtenstall, Townsend Fold, Irwell Vale, Ramsbottom, Bury and Heywood. July sees mainly 'High Season' timetable activity, with two steam locos and one diesel on duty on most weekends, and a single steam loco working the midweek service. The Deltic 55022 'Royal Scots Grey' was the working loco on Sunday 12th of July, and most of the pictures from that date were taken during a ride down from Rawtenstall to Heywood to see the Ford Classic Car event which was being held on the car park there (pictures of this can be seen in my 'heritage gallery'). On the return trip I took a break at Bury Bolton Street to get a shot of the shunter moving the 'Lancastrian Lunch' Dining Car, and there was a rare bit of excitement when the station had to be evacuated at that time due to a bomb hoax/scare, but fortunately the delay wasn't too long and the diners didn't have to eat a cold dinner. It was back again on the 18th, and this time mainly to see the CFPS Class 40 'East Lancashire Railway' 40145, which was doing service this weekend along with the ELR's only two working steam locos, the overworked Jinty 47324, and the US S160 loco '5197', which is on loan from the Churnet Valley Railway until the end of the year. I had planned to walk down to Summerseat from Rawtenstall, but thanks to a major deluge of true ELR proportions, I decided to have a ride behind the 40 instead. Most of the shots from this visit were taken at Rawtenstall, Ramsbottom, Bury Bolton Street and Heywood Stations. A brief midweek visit to Rawtenstall Station on the 23rd saw the venerable Jinty decked out in it's 'Jimmy the Jinty' garb, which was something of a surprise, since the 'Big Engines' event doesn't take place until August, but it appears that this was just for a publicity shoot down at Bury earlier that day, and the face and name had been removed again by the weekend. Sunday 26th of July was yet another typical Lancashire summer's day, with more grey skies and torrential rain, this seems to have been the pattern throughout much of this month, with heavy rain on almost every Sunday it seems. On duty today along with the hard working Jinty and S160, was the Deltic, 55022, which is always a pleasure to see (especially when it puts out such impressive clouds of clag - there goes the ozone layer over Rossendale again!) 
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