I was qualified on class 66’s when they were brand new to EWS in 1998. The cabs of GBRF 66763 are much modified to what I had worked on 1998-2001. Anyone with specific knowledge please correct me if I’m wrong but I suspect GBRF modified a batch of their 66’s to work in multiple with class 73’s on the sleeper services and this is one of the modified versions?

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Taken in about 1957

Clapham Junction station in around 1957, with scruffy 4-SUB 4752 in the platform.. The tracks on the right are not electrified at this time..
4752 was made up from an older three-car unit plus an extra trailer in 1951, and was withdrawn in April 1976, and scrapped in August. None of the original SR units have survived, but one of the BR-built examples has been preserved..
Today (2024) the station is a lot brighter and cleaner, and all tracks are electrified.. The old luggage lifts have recently been replaced by passenger lifts..
Restored from an under-exposed cyan/green-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon

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Tags:   1957 clapham junction 4-sub 4752 emu electric withdrawn scrapped west london line

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Taken from a photograph by N Simmons in my collection.
BR Britannia class, built Crewe March 1951. Withdrawn December 1967.

Tags:   70004 70004 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 4-6-2 Tonbridge Golden Arrow monochrome steam railways

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Taken from a photograph by N Simmons in my collection.
SECR H class, built Ashford numbered 164 February 1909. SR A164, later 1164, after 1923. Renumbered 31164 February 1949 and withdrawn October 1959.

Tags:   SECR South Eastwen and Chatham Railway SR Southern Railway 31164 0-4-4T Tonbridge engine sheds monochrome steam railways

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2-Hap 6028 at Tonbridge forming the 14:44 to Maidstone West, 18/8/65.

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