1961 - N7 at Custom House..
Ex-GER/LNER N7 0-6-2 69697 approaching Custom House station with a service from North Woolwich to Palace Gates, on a bright chilly day in November 1961. The London docks are just off to the right of this picture, out of view.. and someone has set up an anvil and forge, in the right foreground..
69697 had entered service in 1927, and was withdrawn at the end of GE steam at Stratford in September 1962, and scrapped. One example has survived into preservation..
The station has been completely transformed in recent years, and now (2023) has the Docklands Light Railway and Elizabeth Line running though it..
Restored from a faded unfocussed grainy orange-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
1961 - N7 at Custom House..
Ex-GER/LNER N7 0-6-2 69697 approaching Custom House station with a service from North Woolwich to Palace Gates, on a bright chilly day in November 1961. The London docks are just off to the right of this picture, out of view.. and someone has set up an anvil and forge, in the right foreground..
69697 had entered service in 1927, and was withdrawn at the end of GE steam at Stratford in September 1962, and scrapped. One example has survived into preservation..
The station has been completely transformed in recent years, and now (2023) has the Docklands Light Railway and Elizabeth Line running though it..
Restored from a faded unfocussed grainy orange-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon