Up Relief express from Blackpool passing Farington with an 8F
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Up Relief express from Blackpool passing Farington with an 8F
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 1 Aug 1959
View northward, towards Preston etc. on the WCML - see Image] and other images here. On this exceptionally busy Summer Saturday, Control found it necessary to roster a Stanier 8F for a Relief from Blackpool to a Central Division (ex-L&Y) destination, No. 48602 (built by the SR at Eastleigh in 4/43, but employed on the LMS/BR(LMR), withdrawn in 7/67).
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53.721983
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-2.697524