Keith Wilkinson in Carnforth Engine Shed on the footplate of Britannia 70021 Morning Star - a steam loco scrapped soon after this photo was taken.
Keith Wilkinson - now a news correspondent for ITV News Central in Birmingham - as a boy on Britannia Class 7MT Riddles steam locomotive 70021, Morning Star. The British Railways engine, built at Crewe Works in 1951, was in a long line of engines at Carnforth Engine Shed (10A) in Lancashire in the 1960s waiting to go to the scrapyard. Sadly, soon after this picture was taken the loco was scrapped. The photograph was taken either at the end of 1967 or early in 1968 during the winter. The photograph was taken by a passing railwayman, using Keith's Box Brownie camera. Morning Star lives on - as a Hornby model engine. The actual Morning Star was dismantled at Inverkeithing in Scotland at the shipbreakers T.W Ward in March 1968. " It was very sad to see these engines being towed away, sometimes four or five at a time, often by diesel but sometimes by a steam engine going to its own execution! It's scandalous to think this engine, 70021, was only 16 years old so had plenty of life in it. "
Keith Wilkinson in Carnforth Engine Shed on the footplate of Britannia 70021 Morning Star - a steam loco scrapped soon after this photo was taken.
Keith Wilkinson - now a news correspondent for ITV News Central in Birmingham - as a boy on Britannia Class 7MT Riddles steam locomotive 70021, Morning Star. The British Railways engine, built at Crewe Works in 1951, was in a long line of engines at Carnforth Engine Shed (10A) in Lancashire in the 1960s waiting to go to the scrapyard. Sadly, soon after this picture was taken the loco was scrapped. The photograph was taken either at the end of 1967 or early in 1968 during the winter. The photograph was taken by a passing railwayman, using Keith's Box Brownie camera. Morning Star lives on - as a Hornby model engine. The actual Morning Star was dismantled at Inverkeithing in Scotland at the shipbreakers T.W Ward in March 1968. " It was very sad to see these engines being towed away, sometimes four or five at a time, often by diesel but sometimes by a steam engine going to its own execution! It's scandalous to think this engine, 70021, was only 16 years old so had plenty of life in it. "