Walton-on-the-Naze Station with steam train during the period of local electrification
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Walton-on-the-Naze Station with steam train during the period of local electrification
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 26 Mar 1960
View eastward, towards the buffer-stops; terminus of ex-GE branch from Thorpe-le-Soken on the Colchester - Clacton-on-Sea line. The lines from Colchester had been electrified in isolation from 16/3/1959, but electric services from London did not begin until 18/6/1962 and were not fully operational until January 1963. This steam train in March 1960 was the 12.47 to Liverpool Street, headed by N7/5 0-6-2T No. 69651.
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