1967 - 3MT at Olympia..
BR Standard 3MT 2-6-2T 82019 at Kensington Olympia station, on a train of green BR 1950s slam-door suburban carriages, at the end of steam on the Southern Region, in July 1967.
The first carriage would appear to be the experimental BR fibreglass S1000S, which was in service on this route..
82019 was one of the last two locos of the class still in operation, based at Nine Elms depot, and the other one - 82029 - was seen there a month earlier:
www.flickr.com/photos/49572843@N00/3489010439
Four more members of the class survived in storage until 1968, but were later scrapped.
None of these locos survived into preservation, but there is an active project to create a 'new' example, at Bridgenorth, on the Severn Valley Railway - www.82045.org.uk/index.html
1967 - 3MT at Olympia..
BR Standard 3MT 2-6-2T 82019 at Kensington Olympia station, on a train of green BR 1950s slam-door suburban carriages, at the end of steam on the Southern Region, in July 1967.
The first carriage would appear to be the experimental BR fibreglass S1000S, which was in service on this route..
82019 was one of the last two locos of the class still in operation, based at Nine Elms depot, and the other one - 82029 - was seen there a month earlier:
www.flickr.com/photos/49572843@N00/3489010439
Four more members of the class survived in storage until 1968, but were later scrapped.
None of these locos survived into preservation, but there is an active project to create a 'new' example, at Bridgenorth, on the Severn Valley Railway - www.82045.org.uk/index.html