Bedford (Midland Road), with a RCTS Rail Tour at the Up main platform
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Bedford (Midland Road), with a RCTS Rail Tour at the Up main platform
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 10 Aug 1958
View northward, towards Wellingborough, Leicester etc.: ex-Midland Main Line from St Pancras. (This is the original station, prior to its rebuilding a few hundred yards to the north). The locomotive is BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0 No. 75055 (built 1/57, withdrawn 6/67), which took this 'Northern & Eastern' Tour on its last leg to St Pancras. We had started from Liverpool Street and ran via Stratford to Bishop's Stortford, across to Witham, then Marks Tey, Halstead, Haverhill and Cambridge, then across to Bedford (St Johns and Midland Road); finally the run up to St Pancras was interrupted at Harpenden by a trip to Heath Park (Hemel Hempstead) and back - altogether 10½ hours.
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52.134704
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