Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: banker

The last steam banker on British Railways, Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48519 of Rose Grove, prepares to buffer up to a freight train to bank it on the climb from Stansfield Hall to Copy Pit summit. My life-long interest in railways really started not far from here while eating fish and chips one evening in April 1968 when I heard the banker (without knowing what it was) thrashing up the hill in the darkness. A bit late in the day because steam ended on BR 4 months later.

Austria Erzberg steam banker pushing an empty iron ore mineral train up the mountain. It was taken with an old Halina 35X camera on time-expired film during ALP fieldwork in September 1975. The crew look remarkably laid-back enjoying the autumn sun.