Haverhill Station, with Railway Correspondence & Travel Society Rail Tour
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Haverhill Station, with Railway Correspondence & Travel Society Rail Tour
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 10 Aug 1958
View SE, towards Chappel and Marks Tey; ex-Great Eastern Marks Tey - Cambridge line and ex-Colne Valley & Halstead loop Haverhill - Halstead - Chappel & Wakes Colne - which joins on the right beyond the station. This 'Northern & Eastern' Tour started at Liverpool Street at 9.50 with a J19 0-6-0, ran via Stratford and Temple Mills onto the Lea Valley main line to Bishop's Stortford, then via Braintree (goods-only line) to Witham and main line to Marks Tey. We were reversed there and the J15 0-6-0 No. 65440 in the photograph took us via Chappel over the CV&H line to Haverhill and on to Cambridge. We reversed again there and with BR 2-6-4T took the ex-LNW line to Bedford St Johns and round to Midland Road: then a BR 4MT 4-6-0 took us up the main line to St Pancras - not without our train being taken (by a Midland 3F 0-6-0) for a trip down the goods-only branch from Harpenden to Heath Park Halt (Hemel Hempstead) and back. It was 20.15 when we got back to London - exhausted.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.08533
Longitude
0.4374