Thurmaston - steam special on the main line
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Thurmaston - steam special on the main line
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 4 Dec 2011
GWR 'Hall' class Rood Ashton Hall hauling a special to Melton Mowbray for the Xmas market. Photographed from an over bridge carrying a public footpath. Apart from the four of us there were no other gricers. The view is reasonable and uphill but the driver throttled back a bit just before reaching this point and the curse of the railway photographer - drifting steam and smoke - is in evidence. This was a quick break from photographing old mills and a later trip to the Abbey Pumping Station for the beam engines in steam.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.678226
Longitude
-1.084849