Southward into the tunnels from Nottingham Victoria, with Up ore empties
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Southward into the tunnels from Nottingham Victoria, with Up ore empties
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 12 Oct 1962
View from Platform 4 towards Leicester Central and London Marylebone on the ex-GC main line, also Colwick Yards and Grantham on the ex-GN. The signalbox in the gloom between the Parliament Street bridge and Thurland Street tunnel is Nottingham Victoria South. The ore empties, probably bound for Colwick, is being worked tender-first by O4/1 2-8-0 No. 63707. This engine ended its days in 7/65 unrebuilt, having been No. 3540 (for three months) in 1946-7 and No. 6193 in 10/24, having been built for the GCR in 9/1912 as No. 1193 and was not one of the many built for the Government in World War 1.
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