Mixed Train at Staverton Road.
LNER Greseley V2 2-6-2 60963 passing Staverton Road signal box with a very mixed train, in the early-1960s. The loco was withdrawn in June 1965, and scrapped in August, and only one member of the class has survived into preservation.
The Great Central main line through here closed down in September 1966, and today (2020) almost all traces of the railway have vanished, and there is just a section of brickwork either side of the A425 road where the bridge seen here used to be, overgrown with trees and bushes.
Restored from a misaligned under-exposed grainy blue-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
Mixed Train at Staverton Road.
LNER Greseley V2 2-6-2 60963 passing Staverton Road signal box with a very mixed train, in the early-1960s. The loco was withdrawn in June 1965, and scrapped in August, and only one member of the class has survived into preservation.
The Great Central main line through here closed down in September 1966, and today (2020) almost all traces of the railway have vanished, and there is just a section of brickwork either side of the A425 road where the bridge seen here used to be, overgrown with trees and bushes.
Restored from a misaligned under-exposed grainy blue-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - photographer unknown