A Stanier 'Duchess' stops at Bletchley for water
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A Stanier 'Duchess' stops at Bletchley for water
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 22 Dec 1956
View southward, towards London (Euston) on the West Coast Main Line. This was an unscheduled stop, probably due to the locomotive's inability to take up water at the troughs in the icy - and foggy - weather, December 1956. The engine is No. 46234 'Duchess of Abercorn', one of five of Stanier's great 'Coronation' 4-6-2's built in 1938 without streamlining. The driver is controlling the water-column, his fireman being up on the tender.
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51.994603
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-0.736181