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Bushbury, Wolvehampton, April 1966

Having only been put into to service a couple of weeks earlier, Type AL6 ac electric E3147 heads the 12:05 Birmingham New Street - Manchester Piccadilly past Bushbury sidings on 20th April 1966.

 

E3147 was later renumbered 86211 in the TOPS system and subsequently given the name City of Milton Keynes. It met a tragic and untimely end when it was involved in a fatal collision at Colwich Junction, Staffordshire on 19th September 1986.

 

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Taken on April 20, 1966