Lincoln - Peterborough stopping train south of Werrington Junction
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Lincoln - Peterborough stopping train south of Werrington Junction
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 15 Aug 1959
View NW near Walton (LMS) station, towards Grantham on the ECML and about a mile south of Werrington Junction, where this train had joined from Lincoln (dep. 10.27) and come via Boston and Spalding. The locomotive is D16/3 4-4-0 No. 62570, built 7/1908 as GE D56 class No. 1839, becoming LNER No. 8839 (No. 2570 in 1946), rebuilt as D16/2 in 4/28, D16/3 in 9/49, finally withdrawn as BR No. 62570 in 11/59. Note the Royal Mail exchange receiving-apparatus beside the Down line - also seen in Image
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Image Location
Latitude
52.60173
Longitude
-0.271807