UK: Mangapps Railway (Burnham on Crouch, Essex) Class 31 & Class 47 running day

UK: A selection of clips showing Class 31 (no. 31430 'Sister Dora') and Class 47 (no. 47579 'James Nightall') running at the Mangapps Railway (at Burnham on Crouch, Essex). All trains had the locomotive positioned at the Mangapps end and were propelled to the end of the line just beyond Old Heath station. The loco then hauled each train back from Old Heath to Mangapps station. The coaching stock used was two former Class 302 driving trailers numbers E75033 and E75250 formerly used on the 'LTS' London Fenchurch Street to Southend and Shoeburynesss line. All clips were recorded on 22nd August 2015. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Mangapps Railway Museum is a privately owned working railway and museum established on a farm at Burnham on Crouch, Essex. It features a ¾ mile standard gauge passenger carrying line, with restored stations, signal boxes and ancillary equipment removed from various sites throughout East Anglia and beyond. To operate the line the Railway has 18 steam and diesel locomotives and over 80 carriages and wagons, some of considerable historic and technical interest. To complement the working Railway, the Museum has a collection of smaller railway relics which is one of the largest of its kind in Britain. This collection contains historic items connected with every aspect of railway operation and has a particular bias towards the railways of East Anglia and Railway signalling - in fact the signalling collection is believed to be the largest on public display in Britain. The Railway and Museum are owned and operated by the Jolly family assisted by a dedicated staff of volunteers. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Burnham-on-Crouch is a town and civil parish in the Maldon District of Essex in the East of England. It lies on the north bank of the River Crouch. It is one of Britain's leading places for yachting. The civil parish extends 5 miles (8 km) east of the town to the mouth of the River Crouch. It includes the hamlets of Creeksea and Ostend west of the town, Stoneyhills to the north and Dammer Wick, West Wick and East Wick east of the town. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 31430 is named after Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison who was the eleventh of twelve children of Rev Mark James Pattison and his wife, Jane. In the autumn of 1864, she joined the Sisterhood of the Good Samaritans at Coatham, Middlesbrough, and became known as Sister Dora. She would devote the remainder of her life to nursing. She was sent to work at Walsall's hospital in Bridge Street and arrived in Walsall on 8 January 1865. The rest of her life was spent in Walsall. She worked at the Cottage Hospital at The Mount until 1875, when Walsall was hit by smallpox. She worked for six months at an epidemic infirmary set up in Deadman's Lane (now Hospital Street), treating thousands of patients. During the last two years of her life, she worked at the hospital in Bridgeman Street, overlooking the South Staffordshire Railway (later the London and North Western Railway). She developed a special bond of friendship with railway workers who often suffered in industrial accidents. The railwaymen gave her a pony and a carriage and even raised the sum of £50 from their own wages to enable her to visit housebound patients more easily -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 47579 is named after railwayman James William Nightall GC (1922 - 1944) was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the gallantry he showed during the Soham rail disaster. Nightall was a LNER Fireman on a fifty-one wagon ammunition train driven by Benjamin Gimbert. When the wagon caught fire, Nightall helped Gimbert uncouple it from the rest of the train. The wagon exploded, killing Nightall instantly. The explosion blew a twenty-foot crater in the track, destroyed Soham railway station and damaged 600 buildings in the village. Gimbert, who miraculously survived the conflagration, was also awarded the George Cross. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ @FrontCompVids - Follow us on Twitter! More FrontCompVidsclips are regularly added to so don't forget to Like and Subscribe! Click    / frontcomp.  . for more details :-)