Express from Manchester arriving at Marylebone, with an LMS locomotive during the Exchanges
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Express from Manchester arriving at Marylebone, with an LMS locomotive during the Exchanges
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 16 Jun 1948
View NW away from the terminus. LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45253 was taking part in the extensive Exchange Trials of 1948 just after Nationalisation of the Railways, working the Eastern Region (ex-Great Central) 08.25 express from Manchester via the Woodhead Route and Sheffield (Victoria); a dynamometer car is behind the locomotive for close examination of its performance. On the right is an ex-GC 0-6-2T in the Milk Siding. (I was not the only photographer: another is on the left and two up on the signal gantry).
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