‘Mayflower’
As one of the final working examples of Edward Thompson’s versatile B1 class of mixed traffic 4-6-0s, 61306 was secured for preservation immediately after it was taken out of service in 1967. It found a new home at Steamtown Carnforth and was painted into late LNER Apple Green livery. It was also bestowed the name of ‘Mayflower’, originally carried by 40B Immingham-based sister 61279, a locomotive that was scrapped in 1962. As a juvenile Grimsby resident in the late 1950s/early 1960s, I remember seeing the original ‘Mayflower’ in service on East Lincolnshire Line passenger trains.
July 1972
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.
‘Mayflower’
As one of the final working examples of Edward Thompson’s versatile B1 class of mixed traffic 4-6-0s, 61306 was secured for preservation immediately after it was taken out of service in 1967. It found a new home at Steamtown Carnforth and was painted into late LNER Apple Green livery. It was also bestowed the name of ‘Mayflower’, originally carried by 40B Immingham-based sister 61279, a locomotive that was scrapped in 1962. As a juvenile Grimsby resident in the late 1950s/early 1960s, I remember seeing the original ‘Mayflower’ in service on East Lincolnshire Line passenger trains.
July 1972
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.