Austerity 2-8-0 90709 rests at York MPD.Behind it you can see lines of withdrawn ex-Lner types,including V2's and A1 pacifics..August 1965..
Austerity 2-8-0 90709 rests at York MPD.Behind it you can see lines of withdrawn ex-Lner types,including V2's and A1 pacifics..August 1965..
Steam around Britain up to 1968(end of Main-line workings)
TC on Tour (tom curtis) @ fotopic.net
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During August 1965 just before starting work I spent a week in Scotland riding around behind as much steam as possible.One such journey was from Aberdeen to Glasgow on one of the famous 3 hours expresses powered by these locomotives.Spent the whole of the journeyPrevious | NextAs Swindon works had virtually finished overhauling WR steam in late 1964 locomotives from the LMR were to be seen there getting full overhauls.Why? beggers belief as steam was being withdrawn at the rate of hundreds per month by this time.One lucky loco was stanier 2-6-0 42954 seen here at Warminster after being used as a banker for a southern region bound loco coal train.This was a total surprise as steam was virtually extinct at Westbury by this time.. Apparantly it had just arrived in Westbury on a short goods from Swindon,obviously a running in turn and was purlioned to do this banking job..Loco only lasted 17 months as it was then withdrawn and scrapped? ..17 november 1965..

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