What's on
From a ride behind Trangkil 4, the last steam locomotive to be commercially built in the UK, to heavy horse demonstrations, there’s something for everyone at 1968 and all that.
What's on:
- Two steam train rides and a miniature railway ride
- Extensive access to locomotive cabs and footplates
- Heavy horse demonstrations
- Covered stalls and displays
- Barbeque
- Real ale bar – from the award-winning York Brewery
- Soul and sixties sounds from the DJs of YK Soul
The locomotives on show:
| What’s coming? | What’s the story? |
|---|---|
| Oliver Cromwell 70013 | The last steam express locomotive in service on BR in 1968 |
| Evening Star 92220 | The last steam locomotive built by British Railways in 1960 |
| Clun Castle 7029 | Headed the special train marking the end of express steam working on the Western Region in 1964 |
| Kolhapur 45593 | Withdrawn from Leeds, Holbeck depot in October 1967; the end of steam on the Settle-Carlisle route |
| Super D 49395 | Steam stalwart to the end |
| NER Q6 63395 | Survivor to the end of North Eastern steam |
| K4 61994 | Survivor beyond the end of BR steam in Scotland |
| Robinson O4 63601 | Survivor from ‘the last main line’ |
| Sir Berkeley | Early steam survivor and preservation pioneer |
| Adams B4 30096 (No 96) | Southern Region survivor beyond the end of BR steam |
| Hunslet Trangkil No 4 | The last commercially built steam locomotive in the UK, 1971 |
| Austerity NCB No 49 | Late industrial steam survivor. |
| Beattie Well Tank 30587 | Early survivor to the end of Southern steam |
| Class 20 D8000 | New generation diesel traction 1957 |
| Class 31 D5500 | New diesel traction for 1957 |
| Class 52 D1023 | Hydraulic power for the Western Region |
| Class 83 E3035 | Electrification of the West Coast Main Line |
| Railbus No E79960 | The future of Britain’s branch lines? |
| DMU DMC 51562 and DMBS 51922 | The new face of BR |
| Deltic D9009 Alycidon | A new generation of express passenger locomotive on the East Coast Main Line |
Please note this list is subject to change.
Railways in a Changing World
On sale at the event will be the companion guide ‘Railways in a Changing World’, a limited edition book that looks how railways have figured in the changing world from the 1960s to the present day and what impacts are still felt from the momentous happenings of the recent past.
