60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley' leads the 5Z07 1011 Crewe H.S. to Southall Loco Services Ltd past Cathiron, with 47805 'Roger Hosking MA 1925-2013' on the rear.
60007 and the freshly repainted Mk1/Mk2 rake are due to work the 1Z07 London Kings Cross to York on 02/03/24.

The consist was: 21096 3330 3140 3107 1863 3125 3148 3100 80044 3122 3045 17013

01/03/24

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Stagecoach United Counties
758 S758 DRP

Volvo Olympian; Alexander
New to (Stagecoach) United Counties, October 1998

Northampton, Billing Brook Road
01 December 1999

Subsequently numbered 16228 and transferred to Fife in 2012. Scrapped in 2021 after service with a couple of Scottish Independents.

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Taken in 1966

Scruffy ex-LMS Fowler 3F ‘Jinty’ 0-6-0T 47590 at Stoke Shed, in late-1966.
It had entered service in 1929, and was withdrawn in November 1966, and scrapped in May 1967. Nine examples have been preserved, together with one set of frames, and a boiler..
The shed closed to steam in August 1967, and today (2024) the site is occupied by an industrial estate..
Restored from a completely-orange grainy original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon

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Taken on April 14th 1962

Ex-LMS Fowler locos at Northampton Castle station on a sunny day in April 1962, during the Stephenson Locomotive Society ‘Tour of Seven Branch Lines’ railtour.
On the left is 3P 2-6-2T 40026, with condensing gear and feed-water pump for operation over the Widened Lines in London. It had entered service in 1931, and was withdrawn at the end of 1962.
On the right is 2P 4-4-0 40646, which had entered service in 1931, and was withdrawn in May 1962.
No examples of either class survived into preservation..
Northampton Castle station was completely demolished and rebuilt in the mid-1960s, in 'modern/brutalist' style, and renamed to just 'Northampton', and today (2024) all lines are electrified..
Restored from an under-exposed misaligned cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon

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Tags:   1962 northampton castle station sls tour of seven branches railtour fowler lms 3p 2-6-2 40026 2p 4-4-0 40646 steam withdrawn scrapped rebuilt station northampton

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