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Click on the thumbnail views below to download the best pictures on the net of the oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive in Britain!

Click to see the full size Victorian Evening poster Even the poster for the Victorian Evening special trains starring FR 20 is a bit special! It was designed by Phil Cousins, and is based around a Furness Railway company original publicity poster, and also incorporates Roger Street's limited edition print of the engine in action.

FR 20 stands at Lakeside during the 2004 Victorian Evenings, captured by a backconverted Pinhole Box Brownie camera. Photographer Cheryl Smith explains the story behind this atmospheric image.

Photo: Cheryl Smith

"Cumbria" blasts out of Haverthwaite station, summer 2001, on the head of a service train to Lakeside, as Furness Railway Number 20 looks on from the yard.

Photo: Adrian Tomkinson

Cllick here to see FR Number 20 with the MRC's Kirtley 2-4-0

At the Midland Railway Centre's Swanwick Junction station, FR Number 20 approaches with a goods train past another Victorian survivor, Midland Railway Kirtley 2-4-0 Number 158A, which was posed for the photograph (this engine is not in working order).

Photo: Steve Huson

Click here to see FR Number 20 during the filming of "Possession"

Near Moorgates on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, whilst filming for the new Gwynneth Paltrow movie "Possession" in September 2000.

Photo: David Idle

Click here to see FR Number 20 on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

During the North Yorkshire Moors Rail 175 gala in October 2000, the engine is seen in full flight, hauling its two vintage coaches from the Stately Trains fleet between Pickering and Levisham. Oh that we could hear the music too....!

Photo: David Idle

Click here to see FR Number 20 at the Midland Railway Centre

At the Midland Railway Centre, showing FR Number 20 in action during the gala over the May Day Bank Holiday Weekend 2001, when the engine doubled the visitor numbers.

Photo: Steve Huson

Click here to see FR Number 20 at Damems

At Damems Loop, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, May 2000, en route back to Hawarth shed after working Keighley - Ingrow shuttles.

Photo: Tim Owen

Click here to see FR Number 20 at Lakeside

Approaching Lakeside, Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, 22nd September 1999 whilst working a charter for Vauxhall when the company launched the new Omega car.

Photo: Tim Owen

Click here to see FR Number 20 at Lakeside

At Lakeside one gorgeous spring evening, on a running-in turn shortly after being formally relaunched into traffic on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway in 1999.

Photo: Tim Owen

Click here to see FR Number 20 at Mytholmes

Approaching Mytholmes Tunnel, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway on May 15th 2000, during a photographers' charter.

Photo: Tim Owen

Click here to see FR Nymber 20's footplate

FR Number 20's footplate, showing the regulator, injector steam valves, water gauge glasses and brake controls, around the firehole door.

Photo: Mike Heddles

Click here to see FR Number 20 at Howarth

In Hawarth loop, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, during a photographers' charter, May 15th 2000.

Photo: Tim Owen

Click here to see FR Number 20 at Haverthwaite

One of the first pictures of the completed engine, in early 1999, before it was formally relaunched into traffic by Lady Cavendish.

Photo: Tim Owen

Click here to see FR Number 20 at Keighley

Eager for the off at Keighley with an Ingrow shuttle comprising two Metropolitan Railway carriages, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway May 2000.

Photo: Neil Smith

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