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Great Central Railway

There are some other pictures of the same locomotive on the Severn Valley Railway in the early pages of my gallery.

The summer scene can be found here:- www.ipernity.com/doc/2247998/46234362

The winter scene can be found here:- www.ipernity.com/doc/2247998/46234366

Happy Fence Friday!

Notre Dame is just about visible in the centre of the picture

Supermoon rises over the water tower at Langford. The second full moon in a month is a 'Blue Moon'. Supermoon is when the full moon occurs at the point when the moon is closest to Earth. On 31 January 2018 we got both events in England. Other parts of the world also got an eclipse, making the moon look red... A Blood Moon!

The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Hughes Crab or Horwich Mogul is a class of mixed traffic 2-6-0 steam locomotive built between 1926 and 1932. They are noted for their appearance with large highly-angled cylinders to accommodate a restricted loading gauge. These locomotives were referred to as "Crabs". Several authors have claimed that this refers to the resemblance to a crab's pincers of the outside cylinders and valve motion.[1][2][3] Another suggestion is that the nickname refers to the "scuttling" motion felt on the footplate when the engine is being worked hard,[2] due largely to the inclined cylinders, producing a sensation that it is walking along the track. In some areas they also received the nickname "frothblowers" from their tendency to prime easily when the boiler was overfilled, or the feedwater contaminated.[4]