1967 – Clean Survivor in the Rain..
Taken on August 19th 1967
Ex-LMS Stanier ‘Jubilee’ class 4-6-0 45593 ‘’Kolhapur’’ at Leeds Holbeck shed, on a wet day in August 1967, with 'not under AC wires south of Crewe' yellow stripe.. It had entered service in December 1934, and was named in 1939, and was withdrawn in October 1967, and purchased for preservation in January 1968.
It was sold again in 2024, and today (2025) the loco is at Carnforth waiting for its next heavy overhaul..
The shed closed to steam at the end of September 1967, and today (2025) part of the site is still in use, by railway maintenance and refurbishment companies..
Restored from an under-exposed cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
1967 – Clean Survivor in the Rain..
Taken on August 19th 1967
Ex-LMS Stanier ‘Jubilee’ class 4-6-0 45593 ‘’Kolhapur’’ at Leeds Holbeck shed, on a wet day in August 1967, with 'not under AC wires south of Crewe' yellow stripe.. It had entered service in December 1934, and was named in 1939, and was withdrawn in October 1967, and purchased for preservation in January 1968.
It was sold again in 2024, and today (2025) the loco is at Carnforth waiting for its next heavy overhaul..
The shed closed to steam at the end of September 1967, and today (2025) part of the site is still in use, by railway maintenance and refurbishment companies..
Restored from an under-exposed cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon