Up coal train at Killamarsh West
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Up coal train at Killamarsh West
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 14 Sep 1957
View northward on the ex-Midland (North Midland 'Old Road') Chesterfield - Rotherham section of the London St Pancras - Yorkshire trunk route, a section by-passing Sheffield and largely devoted to freight traffic. The locomotive is Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No. 48439 (built Swindon 1944, loaned to the GWR until 4/47, then to BR(LMR) and withdrawn 11/67).
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Image Location
Latitude
53.327097
Longitude
-1.330177