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Steam on the Incline..

Ex-WD / LNER J94 68012 wreathed in smoke and steam, on the Hopton Incline near Middleton Top, in the mid-60s..

The loco was withdrawn when the line closed in 1967 and scrapped soon after that. There is a similar WD Austerity loco bearing the number today, but it is not the original..

Today, part of the trackbed is the 'High Peak Trail'..

Restored from an over-exposed faded unfocussed blue-colour-shifted original..

Original slide - photographer unknown

 

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Uploaded on September 29, 2014
Taken circa 1964