1961 - Stovepipe and ConFlats..
Taken in 1961
Grimy ex-GER LNER J15 65462, fitted with an older-style stovepipe chimney, passing Stratford Low-Level station, on a grey day in 1961. The 'tender cab' seen here was made from the cab of an old withdrawn 2-4-2T..
The loco had entered service in 1912, and was withdrawn at the end of GE steam in September 1962, and purchased for preservation, after the loco originally chosen was found to have a crack in the frames... It was stored at Stratford for a time, and eventually moved to Sheringham in 1967.
Today (2023) it is in operation on the North Norfolk Railway at Sheringham, in original GER condition..
This is now the site of a Docklands Light Railway station, with the Jubilee Line platforms alongside..
Restored from an under-exposed grainy cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
1961 - Stovepipe and ConFlats..
Taken in 1961
Grimy ex-GER LNER J15 65462, fitted with an older-style stovepipe chimney, passing Stratford Low-Level station, on a grey day in 1961. The 'tender cab' seen here was made from the cab of an old withdrawn 2-4-2T..
The loco had entered service in 1912, and was withdrawn at the end of GE steam in September 1962, and purchased for preservation, after the loco originally chosen was found to have a crack in the frames... It was stored at Stratford for a time, and eventually moved to Sheringham in 1967.
Today (2023) it is in operation on the North Norfolk Railway at Sheringham, in original GER condition..
This is now the site of a Docklands Light Railway station, with the Jubilee Line platforms alongside..
Restored from an under-exposed grainy cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon