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'Silver Jubilee' May Day Steam 2006

This annual event is organised jointly by Urmston & District Model Engineers and the Lancashire Traction Engine Club. It was held at the Urmston club's Abbotsfield Park site on the Bank Holiday weekend of 29th and 30 April and 1st May. Here are a few photos taken at May Day Steam of Urmston's miniature railway. See also the LTEC web site www.lancashiretec.co.uk

General view of part of the steaming bays             [Photo G. Meldon

Busy scene at the station                                     [Photo G. Meldon

A regular visitor to May Day Steam, Andrew Harvey from Somerset again brought his huge American-type 2-8-2.

Alan Crossfield from the Leyland Society ran his latest masterpiece, a GWR 51xx 2-6-2 tank.                [Photo G. Meldon
A young passengers inspects Jim Moyle's Beyer-Peacock 0-6-2 narrow gauge loco                                                 [Photo G. Meldon Double-headed diesels: Chis Bolland at the controller of his Class 52 Western Corsort, piloted by Andrew Wilcock's Class 40