This magnificent picture by former Dalesman editor Paul Jackson shows Duchess of Sutherland heading north at the Hoffman kiln at Langcliffe, near Settle, this morning. She was hauling a Statesman rail tour from Norwich to Carlisle and return today. I have just seen her whooooosh through Settle on her return southbound at 1833. I think it is around midnight that the train gets back to Norwich but what a day the passengers will have had. It is such a relief to see steam trains speeding through Settle again, all the way to Carlisle and further north too.
This is how the Duchesses looked back in their day:
Matter of opinion of course but I do not think they were half as elegant as the Gresley equivalents:
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