Clapham Museum, 1965
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Clapham Museum, 1965
Image: © John Sutton Taken: Unknown
From 1960-73 the Museum of British Transport was housed in a former bus depot at Clapham. I made the trip specially to see Great Central Railway Director 4-4-0 locomotive No 506 "Butler Henderson", which I had last seen at Nottingham Victoria in 1960, when it was a dirty plain black and on one of its last revenue-earning duties. At Clapham the restored engine was in the elaborate Great Central green livery. "Butler Henderson" eventually returned to work on the preserved Great Central Railway at Loughborough, but it is now at the National Railway Museum at York and a static exhibit again. The bus depot was replaced by a Sainsbury's supermarket, which Richard Rogerson photographed in 2009: Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.461933
Longitude
-0.13569