25063 backs down on to its train of Mark I coaches in one of the bay platforms at the south end of the Crewe station on a wet and miserable day, 15th January 1977. It’s fortunate that 25063 is one of the boiler fitted class 25’s otherwise it would have been a cold journey to South Wales.
Locomotive History
25063 was built at Derby works in 1963 as D5213 and although boiler fitted it remained vacuum braked and therefore was an early target when class 25/1 withdrawals began in earnest in 1978. It succumbed in November 1980 although would linger for over two years until the cutters torch at Swindon final disposed of 25063 in March 1983.
Praktica LTL, High Speed Ektachrome
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