Up freight passing Blackburn station
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Up freight passing Blackburn station
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 8 May 1965
View eastward, towards Accrington, Burnley, Colne and Hellifield: ex-L&Y (East Lancs. section). Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 No. 45095 was built in 1935 and here in 1965 is reduced to working a lowly freight, but it was one of the very last survivors at the End of Steam in 8/68.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.746154
Longitude
-2.47927