'Jubilee' Class 4-6-0 'Leander' at Normanton
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'Jubilee' Class 4-6-0 'Leander' at Normanton
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 18 Mar 1961
The celebrated 'Jubilee' No. 45690, now preserved on the East Lancashire Railway, is seen in a disreputable state towards the end of its working life, on a Down Sheffield - Leeds local train leaving Normanton. This was then still a major junction, where the main ex-Midland Sheffield - Leeds line joined with the ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire main line from Manchester via the Calder Valley and Wakefield, also the ex-North Eastern main line to York via Church Fenton. Until the 'Beeching Revolution' and the later disappearance of the Coal Industry, Normanton was a train-watcher's paradise but in 2010 the scene is totally different, the residual Normanton Station being virtually on a backwater. (See also Image] and Image]).
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Image Location
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53.700521
Longitude
-1.424083