London Bridge - Tunbridge Wells West train at Brockley, 1948
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London Bridge - Tunbridge Wells West train at Brockley, 1948
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 21 Jul 1948
View towards New Cross Gate and London from the Endwell Road bridge, climbing up the steep climb from New Cross Gate is the 18.30 from London Bridge, still in those days headed by an ex-LB&SCR Marsh class I3 4-4-2T, No. S2025 (later to be 32025), built as No. 25 in 3/1909, becoming No. 2025 after Grouping and surviving only until 1/50. [Not a good photograph and probably in the rain, but a 'Scene from the Distant Past'].
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