A photograph of the J72 in the long grass as it approaches Dunnington station on the Derwent Valley Light Rly in August 1979.
The DVLR ran passenger trains for a little while from Layerthorpe to Dunnington but weedkilling was not a strong point.
LNER J72 'Joem'
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Re: LNER J72 'Joem'
A nice picture of the J72 fighting its way through the undergrowth.
Weed killing was never a strong point with the DVLR; in WWII, the weeds were such that it was not visible from the air and this was put to good use by designating the line as an alternative route between York & Selby and for storing some nasty stuff such as mustard gas shells, there may even have been a factory producing the gas somewhere along the line, if my memory serves me.
Weed killing was never a strong point with the DVLR; in WWII, the weeds were such that it was not visible from the air and this was put to good use by designating the line as an alternative route between York & Selby and for storing some nasty stuff such as mustard gas shells, there may even have been a factory producing the gas somewhere along the line, if my memory serves me.
Re: LNER J72 'Joem'
More info here
http://www.dvlr.org.uk/historyindex.htm
http://www.dvlr.org.uk/historyindex.htm
Re: LNER J72 'Joem'
Also an intersting article on the Industrial Railway Society site about the DVLR - Its in their archive section and its from 1973.
http://www.irsociety.co.uk/
Graham
http://www.irsociety.co.uk/
Graham