Aintree: Grand National Race Specials in Sidings
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Aintree: Grand National Race Specials in Sidings
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 26 Mar 1955
View roughly SW to Aintree Sorting Sidings, where several of the 27 Race Specials were waiting to take racegoers home (all over Britain, from Glasgow to London to Bristol) after the 1955 Grand National. It was a filthy wet and cold day - but I had backed the Winner (Quare Times)! This is a memorable and dramatic scene, by Aintree Sorting Sidings No. 1 Box. These trains were the ones that left from Aintree Racecourse Station, which was to the left and on the ex- Lancashire & Yorkshire Fazakerley Junction - North Mersey line.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.469459
Longitude
-2.96183