I caught up with the train a bit later, after a few wagons had been added at Quorn.

This was from the time when annual lineside passes were available, for a fee, to the members of the GCR.

Some photographers have been removed in Photoshop from the bridge parapet.

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Following on from the shots with the Q6, here are a batch of diesel pictures from the GC's 2009 "1960's Gala".

BRC&W Type 2 D5401 heads a set of parcels vans with the 09.50 Loughborough - Rothley.

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Resident Brush 4 D1705 with the 11.20 Loughborough - Leicester.

This loco was originally built as a Class 48 with a Sulzer "V" engine, and rebuilt to a standard 47 in the late '60's. The "Sparrowhawk" name was not carried in BR days.

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The BRC&W Type 2 brings a rake of 16t minerals through the cutting here with the 12.35 Loughborough - Rothley.

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Not too long after the Q6 was this BR standard, with the 11.50 Loughborough - Leicester.

At the time the railway ran a nice matched set of BR Mk1 coaches in SR green, recalling the workings along here of SR stock on the York - Bournemouths.

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