70013 at Leicester North looking immaculate following her overhaul and return to steam, 4th May 2008.
Locomotive History
70013 was built at Crewe works and completed in May 1951, initially allocated to Norwich MPD for Great Eastern duties. By the end of steam on British Railways 70013 was allocated to Carlisle Kingmoor and played an integral part in steam’s last rites, becoming the very last steam locomotive to be overhauled at Crewe works and became the very last Pacific in service. Regular British Railways steam ended on 3rd August 1968, but the final “end of steam” specials did not run until the 11th August 1968 when 70013 was one of a small number of steam locomotives to haul British Railways last steam train passenger train, the Fifteen Guinea Special between Liverpool Lime Street and Carlisle. Following withdrawal it was on display for thirty six years at the Bressingham Steam Museum until moved to Loughborough in 2004 for overhaul and was steamed for the first time in forty years in the spring of 2008.
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