Fenchurch Street - Shoeburyness train approaching Barking
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Fenchurch Street - Shoeburyness train approaching Barking
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 25 Sep 1948
View westward, towards London, from the same bridge as Image but 12½ years earlier, soon after Nationalisation and before the major changes in layout. Still un-renumbered Stanier 3-cylinder 4P 2-6-4T No. 2511 is on ancient stock approaching old Midland signals. (The 3-cylinder 2-6-4Ts were the principal motive-power on the Tilbury Line trains in those days). The Tottenham & Forest Gate lines to/from Kentish Town are on the far side, beyond the LPTB District/Metropolitan tracks.
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Image Location
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51.542106
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0.075541