46015 at Water Orton (gbw,78/38/07)

One of the pleasures of visiting pages of old negatives is the occasional surprise. I had been looking for another negative and on the same strip was this unprinted Peak. I assumed it was unsharp but no, even the number was readable. Probably at the time it was considered just another Peak photographed in poor light.

I have no notes of course but 46015 was a Laira based locomotive at, it is making decent progress with a train of MkI coaches, it was heading towards Derby in the early afternoon.

The area around the signal box is much more tidy than in my previous pictures, the box had not been in use for train control for some time but it had been retained by the S&T department as a store. looking under the bridge over the train we can just make out the canopy over the platform buildings.

46015 was built at Derby works, it went new to Derby Depot 01/02/1962 as D152. It was withdrawn 14/12/1980 and cut at Swindon Works 19/01/1985

Copyright Geoff Dowling 23/08/1978: All rights reserved

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