AFTER a 17-year absence, BR Standard 2MT No. 78022 has returned to passenger traffic on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
The Standard 4 Locomotive Society’s 2-6-0 appeared back in service on November 24, on the last weekend of ‘normal’ timetabled running before Santa specials began, working alongside the resident DMU to fulfil the timetable.
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No. 78022 appeared in BR Brunswick Green, which was not a livery it carried in service with BR, but one normally carried, but not exclusively, by top link express locomotives.
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One of a class of 65, a direct development of the LMS-designed lvatt Class 2MT 2-6-0, No. 78022, was delivered new from Darlington on February 28, 1954 to Millhouses Depot in Sheffield.
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