Ready and waiting
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Ready and waiting
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 13 Apr 1965
Former LNER class A1 4-6-2 60124 'Kenilworth' is on standby at Darlington Bank Top shed in the event of failure of a locomotive on an express train. It has 'express' headlamps in place, but more in hope than expectation. By this time expresses were virtually all diesel hauled and the sight of a steam loco on an express would have been a rarity. Darlington would not have provided motive power for expresses on a normal basis, and still had a 100% allocation of steam locomotives, as can be seen in the background. The area of the shed is now largely occupied by Teesside University.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.524479
Longitude
-1.544344