Children's Train in Barking Park
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Children's Train in Barking Park
Image: © Geographer Taken: Unknown
Opened in the early 1950s, in a gauge of 9½ inches and originally consisted of three coaches hauled by a steam locomotive named ‘The Empress’. This was replaced by a sit-in diesel locomotive named ‘Little Nan', trains running between the main park entrance at Longbridge Road, up to a turntable at the boating lake.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.544158
Longitude
0.081548