1961 - 'Metropolitan' at Stanmore..
London Transport 0-4-4T L.44 at Stanmore station in October 1961, after arriving with a train of 'Dreadnought' carriages, on the Southern Counties Touring Society 'Metropolitan' railtour. Bakerloo Line 1938 Stock in the background. L.44 had brought the special from Wembley Park, and took the train back from here to New Cross Gate, where 'Growler' No. 16 ''Oliver Goldsmith'' took it on to Baker Street.
This station had originally been opened by the Metropolitan Railway, and later became part of the Bakerloo Line, and later still part of the Jubilee Line.
L.44 had hauled the last scheduled steam-hauled passenger service on LT, earlier that month, and was withdrawn by LT in 1963, and preserved, and after storage at Aylesbury for a couple of years, arrived at Quainton in 1970, where it was restored as 'Metropolitan No 1', and later took part in many 'Steam on the Met' specials in the later 1980s and 90s, and later still hauled the 150th Anniversary specials over the sub-surface Metropolitan lines between Moorgate and Finchley Road, in January 2013.
Today (2018) it is still based at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, at Quainton.
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
Photo by J Adams..
1961 - 'Metropolitan' at Stanmore..
London Transport 0-4-4T L.44 at Stanmore station in October 1961, after arriving with a train of 'Dreadnought' carriages, on the Southern Counties Touring Society 'Metropolitan' railtour. Bakerloo Line 1938 Stock in the background. L.44 had brought the special from Wembley Park, and took the train back from here to New Cross Gate, where 'Growler' No. 16 ''Oliver Goldsmith'' took it on to Baker Street.
This station had originally been opened by the Metropolitan Railway, and later became part of the Bakerloo Line, and later still part of the Jubilee Line.
L.44 had hauled the last scheduled steam-hauled passenger service on LT, earlier that month, and was withdrawn by LT in 1963, and preserved, and after storage at Aylesbury for a couple of years, arrived at Quainton in 1970, where it was restored as 'Metropolitan No 1', and later took part in many 'Steam on the Met' specials in the later 1980s and 90s, and later still hauled the 150th Anniversary specials over the sub-surface Metropolitan lines between Moorgate and Finchley Road, in January 2013.
Today (2018) it is still based at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, at Quainton.
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
Photo by J Adams..