Photo by Neil Smedley posted with permission. More of Neil's 60s photos here
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Awaiting its end in the yard at Derby Works when Neil visited with an RCTS group was this old-timer. Dübs & Co built condensing Johnson 2F 0-6-0 53138 in 1875 for the Midland Railway. 53138 was a long-time resident of Bournville shed in the 1950s and had still been in service at Coalville shed until December 1962.
Fowler 2-6-4T 42392 had been withdrawn from Stoke a month earlier.
