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ADVANTAGE MISUNDERSTOOD...

Or a 'Health & Safety' nightmare....

 

LMS 4-6-2 8P 46229 'Duchess of Hamilton' comes up towards the top of Gresford Bank near Wrexham and passes the site of Gresford Colliery exchange sidings on the beautiful evening of 23-10-82.

 

Hauling a Welsh Marches Pullman. The Six Bells website has the steam leg northbound from Shrewsbury but I photographed Black5 5000 at Craven Arms so it must have started at Hereford and I presume the Duchess hauled leg returned to Hereford.

 

This is an improved version of a previous post. I made the comment originally about the need for people to climb signals to take photos. I would love to see the 'against the light' results.

 

One of my favourite steam locos on the mainline it is now incarcerated in the National Railway Museum at York as a static loco which has been cosmetically restored with streamlined casing. A sad end to an active life.

 

Ref: img289 WM 23-10-82

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Taken on January 7, 2016