A Visit to the Northampton and Lamport Railway
A very sunny Easter Sunday spent at the Northampton & Lamport railway. Class 31 Phoenix 31 289 provided motive power in push-pull mode. When pushing, brake control is from modified coach E9102.
NORTHAMPTON & LAMPORT RAILWAY 'THE BEGINNING' February 1996
A video featuring the early days of one of our local preserved railways.
Northampton and Lamport Railway (NLR) Gala - Part 2 (trains on the southern extension) 20/10/19
A few short clips of a demonstration ballast train and light engine movements on the southern extension on 20/10/19.
Passenger trains cannot currently operate on the 1/2 mile extension but hopefully they will be able to run next year when work on Boughton station and bridge 11 are completed.
Locos seen are 0-4-0ST 'Eustace Forth' and class 31 no. 31289 'Phoenix'.
Filmed at the Northampton and Lamport Railway (NLR) Gala, Northamptonshire, England, on 20th October 2019.
Northampton & Lamport Railway 28th August 2017, Part 2
The NLR's Branchline Gala featuring 764, 47 205 & 1450.
Northampton & Lamport Railway 01.04.2018
A visit to the Northampton & Lamport Railway to see newly restored Peckett 0-4-0ST No. 2130 'Dunlop No. 7' working it's first trains since restoration. Filmed on the 1st April 2018.
Various locations are seen in and around Pitsford & Brampton Station - the main hub of activity on the line.
Some scenes have been extended that include sound recordings.
Northampton and Lamport Railway (NLR) Gala Part 1 20/10/19
4 short clips filmed at the Northampton and Lamport Railway (NLR) on 20/10/19
- Class 47205 with hoppers and brake van
- Mk2 propelling brake coach (if that's the right word) leading with Roberts, Stephenson and Hawthorns 7063 0-4-0ST 'Eustace Forth' providing power at the rear
- Hawthorne Leslie 0-4-0ST No. 3718 passing Pitsford sidings
- 0-4-0ST 7063 'Eustace Forth' with hoppers and brake van approaching Pitsford Sidings
Northampton & Lamport Railway
A small but quite popular steam railway in Northampton
NORTHAMPTON & LAMPORT RAILWAY T BEAR 01 05 2017
June and I visit one of our local preserved railways.
Plimsoll on Northampton & Lamport Railway 2019
Mark Saville drives Plimsoll, his 1957 Series I Land Rover equipped with custom-made railway wheels, on the Northampton & Lamport Railway.
We Visit Northampton and Lamport Steam Railway.
Me Suzanne our Daughter Katy, and Coco the Frenchie visit, and ride on a Steam train at Northampton and Lamport railway. Please Subscribe, Like and leave a Comment.
Northampton & Lamport Railway 02.01.2017
The first outing of 2017 took me to the Northampton & Lamport Railway on the 2nd January 2017.
The main reason for this visit was to film Peckett R4 Class 0-4-0 No. 2104 working on it's last day before the expiry of it's boiler certificate. No. 2104 is seen operating passenger services along the line from various locations along the line in and around Pitsford & Brampton Station.
31289 in action on Northampton & Lamport Railway with Clag!
31289 seen doing a days work on the Northampton & Lamport Railway on Saturday 30th March. Some nice noise from the loco aswell as some clag.
ENJOY!
Saddle Tank Eustace Forth & PJ Masks Event, Northampton & Lamport Railway, 26th August 2019
On Thursday 23rd May operational 0-4-0 saddle tank ‘Eustace Forth’ arrived at the N-LR.
She is kindly on loan from the 7063 Locomotive Group and will be staying with us until the end of 2019. We hope she will see plenty of use on operating days and special events.
7063 was built in 1942 by Roberts, Stephenson and Hawthorne Ltd at their Forth Bank Works in Newcastle. She was built for working at Dunston Power Station in Gateshead.
She worked at Gateshead shunting coal waggons until saved for preservation by the Hexham Rolling Stock Group before being taken into the National Collection in 1978.
In early preservation she ran in CEGB green livery and acted as Percy in National Railway Museum Thomas the Tank Engine events.
‘Eustace’ was gifted to the 7063 Loco Group in 2014.
More recently (since the end of 2018, up until she came to the N-LR) she has been used for steam heating duties at Pickering on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
The Beginning
In 1851 large amounts of ironstone were discovered in Northamptonshire and the London & North Western Railway (L&NWR) decided to capitalize on this occurrence by proposing a new railway line between Northampton and Market Harborough. This in itself would open up more of the countryside for railway travel by providing a link between the lines from Rugby to Stamford, and Blisworth to Peterborough.
Designed and built by George R Stephenson, the Northampton to Market Harborough line was opened in 1859. It had eight stations, Northampton, Pitsford & Brampton, Spratton, Brixworth, Lamport, Kelmarsh, Clipston and Market Harborough and two tunnels; Kelmarsh at 531 yards long and Oxendon at 462 yards long on the down line (to Market Harborough) and the other bore at 453 yards long on the up line (to Northampton).
The line had a staggered history, particularly in its final years. It was first closed to passenger traffic on 4th January 1960 but was reopened to through traffic on the 6th January 1969. It was closed again on 1st May 1969 and reopened on 10th July 1972. The passenger service was finally withdrawn on 26th August 1973.
n June of 1981 a group was set up, calling itself the Welland Valley Railway Revival Group, to reopen as much of the line as was possible. On 15th August 1981, the group organised a special train to run from Northampton to Market Harborough and back. People gathered at the old station sites, bridges and crossings to see the last British Rail train on the line that had given 123 years of service. The next day the line closed to all traffic.
The Northampton Steam Railway soon emerged and three years later the group had changed its trading name to the Northampton & Lamport Railway (N-LR for short), and had started to rebuild the railway in the old goods yard at Pitsford & Brampton station; which is now the railway’s headquarters, situated approximately 5 miles north of Northampton.
Northamptonshire County Council purchased the line from British Rail and converted it into a linear country park and cycle way from just outside Northampton to just outside Market Harborough. Northampton & Lamport Railway leases the track bed from the County Council. A safety fence has been installed to separate the track from the footpath.
The initial construction of the N-LR produced a railway comprising a station, two signal boxes, with approximately ¾ of a mile of running line and some sidings. The first passengers were carried along the reopened section on 19th November 1995 and the line was officially reopened on the 31st March 1996. This initial section of line is located between Bridge 11 and Bridge 13.
The first extension of the line from Bridge 13 to Bridge 14, was achieved by fundraising (including National Lottery funding) and seven years of hard work from our Volunteer Working Members at a cost of £50,000. In 2002 the first passenger train crossed the restored Bridge 13 since its closure by British Railways in 1981
The Future
The planned extension projects are a ½ mile (approx) extension of the line south to Boughton Crossing, which will be followed by a ¼ mile (approx) extension north over Bridge 14 to Merry Tom Crossing and possibly further north to Spratton.
The southern extension to Boughton Crossing is the current focal point for extending the railway, where planning permission has been received, lineside cleared and track laying is continuing in the Boughton Crossing area where a run round loop and station are being built.
The Northampton & Lamport Railway has achieved a lot since its formation and is always welcoming visitors, new members, new Volunteer Working Members and donations.
Northampton & Lamport Railway 'Branchline Weekend' 26.08.2017
Over the weekend of the 26th, 27th and 28th August 2017 the Northampton & Lamport Railway held it's 'Branchline Weekend' event. The star attraction was No. 1450 which was visiting from the Severn Valley Railway. These scenes were filmed on the 26th August 2017.
Locomotives featuring at the gala included; GWR 1400 Class, No. 1450 (visiting from the Severn Valley Railway) and Class 47, No. 47205.
Locations include; in and around Pitsford & Brampton Station and Boughton Sidings.
Some scenes have been extended that include sound recordings.
Filmed in the company of Keith (SMILEVIDEOTRAINS).
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NORTHAMPTON. LAMPORT RAILWAY GALA. BEST YET 19 1 0
Really chuffed with this visit to a small enthusiasts line. How they managed to run two steam and 2 diesels on a single track with a couple of sidings was a masterpiece.
Northampton & Lamport Railway, Branchline Weekend, 25/08/2018 with Llangollen GWR Pannier Tank 6430
Northampton and Lamport railway branch line event with Great Western Pannier Tank Engine from Llangollen Railway in Wales, I was in Wales last week. 6430 is a push-pull fitted 0-6-0 pannier tank of GWR origin, built at Swindon in 1937 as part of lot no. 305. The class spent their lives working many of the minor branch lines on the former GWR system, particularly the South Wales valleys, and were fitted for auto train working.
Also there was diesel shunter Sir Gyles Isham
№764 0-4-0 DM “Sir Gyles Isham”
№764, a 0-4-0 Ruston & Hornsby 165DS class diesel locomotive, one of a class of 124.
Built in March 1953, the loco was used by the Admiralty RNAD at Bedenham, Bridgemary, near Portsmouth.
It is thought that №764 was originally used on munitions trains as it carried an exhaust spark arrester which has been removed.
№764 was moved to Rail & Track Supplies of Wolverton in December 1975 and arrived at the Northampton & Lamport Railway in November 1983, the first locomotive on the railway, after donation by Rail & Track Supplies Ltd. Phoenix the Brush type 2 BR Class 31 31289 was there too.
The Northampton & Lamport Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in Northamptonshire, England. It is based at Pitsford and Brampton station, near the villages of Pitsford and Chapel Brampton, roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Northampton.
The line between Northampton and Market Harborough was finally closed (by British Rail) on 16 August 1981, the intermediate stations on the route having been closed for many years.
In 1984 (just 3 years after the line's closure) a group was formed by Michael William Papworth (of Northampton) with the intention of re-opening a section of the line as a heritage railway. The site opened to the public shortly afterwards. Following the granting of a Light Railway Order, the line carried its first fare-paying passengers in November 1995. The official Grand Opening Ceremony took place (just 4 months later) on 31 March 1996.
Currently, passenger trains operate on a section of line approximately 1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) in length, departing from and arriving at the only station, Pitsford and Brampton.
However, As of November 2013, An extension south had currently been under construction which adds another 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) of running line, with around 90% of track-relaying completed around Spring 2012. Once complete it will include a station with sidings and run-round loop at the former Boughton Crossing on the A5199 at the Northamptonshire village of Boughton.
A northern extension of the N&LR currently remains within the planning stage, but before work can start, however, extensive repairs are needed to Bridge 14 which carries the track over the River Nene. In addition Northamptonshire County Council, which owns the former trackbed, will not grant a lease on the land required for the extension until the NLR's southern extension (to as far as Boughton) is completed. The previous extension opened after several years' work and around £50,000 was spent on repairs to Bridge 13, (the same amount required for Bridge 14, when the NLR turns its intention northwards).
The signalling system, with two working signal boxes (and a third under construction), makes it one of the most comprehensive and detailed on any heritage railway of its size, within Preservation. The Booking Office at Pitsford and Brampton station was built using the disused Lamport signal box, originally located around 5 1⁄2 miles (8.9 km) away on/up the same line. It had since been converted in such a way that it can be easily converted back into a signal box if whenever required in the future.
A third signal box has been installed at the Boughton Terminus; the former Betley Road signal box from Crewe is being used following its restoration.
The Brampton Valley Way is a linear park offering a traffic-free route for walkers, cyclists and pedestrians, and which runs alongside the railway, separated by a stout safety fence. Access is also available to horse riders on other sections away from the railway.
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Northampton & Lamport Railway 31289 in 2011
class 31289 pulls into pitsford and brampton station from the south.
Northampton and Lamport Railway, mid 1990's
Home Video of loco Movements at the N&LR taken some time in the 1990's, Sorry about the quality but it is taken from old VHS tapes. Enjoy.
(HD) The Northampton & Lamport Railway - 27/8/12
A day out to the Northampton & Lamport Railway, where the lines resident steam loco was out. Included are shots of 31289 (which has been restored to a high level since) & 47306. Included are several lineside shots.
Enjoy!