Engine change
This is 1L50, the RCTS End of Steam Commemorative Rail Tour of 4 August 1968, very much the focus of attention at Blackburn. 48476 has arrived (nearly three hours down) from Manchester Victoria along with 73069 to swap with scruffy 45407 (a late substitute for 45110). The train would continue to Hellifield, Skipton and Lostock Hall, where Britannia 70013 took over. The eventual arrival back at Euston was some four and a half hours behind schedule, the full story recounted in the link below.
All of the four steam locomotives that took part in the tour have been preserved. Of the rest, D1624 and D7513 are long since scrapped, although E3183 survives as 86251, but has been withdrawn since 2002 and has been used as a source of spares for Freightliner.
www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/680804he.html
Scanned from a slide taken by the late Michael Brown, now in my collection.
Engine change
This is 1L50, the RCTS End of Steam Commemorative Rail Tour of 4 August 1968, very much the focus of attention at Blackburn. 48476 has arrived (nearly three hours down) from Manchester Victoria along with 73069 to swap with scruffy 45407 (a late substitute for 45110). The train would continue to Hellifield, Skipton and Lostock Hall, where Britannia 70013 took over. The eventual arrival back at Euston was some four and a half hours behind schedule, the full story recounted in the link below.
All of the four steam locomotives that took part in the tour have been preserved. Of the rest, D1624 and D7513 are long since scrapped, although E3183 survives as 86251, but has been withdrawn since 2002 and has been used as a source of spares for Freightliner.
www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/680804he.html
Scanned from a slide taken by the late Michael Brown, now in my collection.