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BR Class 7MT 70040 'Clive of India' and LNER B17 61655 'Middlesborough'

British Railways Standard 'Britannia' Class 7MT 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive 70040 'Clive of India' about to be bowled by LNER Class B17, 4-6-0 steam locomotive 61655 'Middlesborough' in 1958 at Chelmsford Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK).

 

70040 entered service on March 21st 1953 and withdrawn/scrapped on April 15th 1967 while 61655 was built in 1936 and withdrawn/scrapped on April 9th 1959.

 

Note the wavy line roof on building 720 at Marconi's New Street Works.

 

My Chelmsford Railway Station album flic.kr/s/aHsjoigMMG

 

Photograph courtesy, copyright and taken by Mr Philip Alexander and is posted to my flickr photostream with very kind permission.

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Uploaded on October 16, 2015
Taken sometime in 1958