70004 'William Shakespeare' approaching Hooton Station - 1966
Introduction
The photograph on this page of 70004 'William Shakespeare' approaching Hooton Station - 1966 by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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70004 'William Shakespeare' approaching Hooton Station - 1966
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 19 Nov 1966
Although nominally rated as 'mixed traffic' locomotives (7P5F), the Britannia class was essentially an express passenger locomotive, and to find a member of the class attached to a rake of iron ore tipplers would be considered very demeaning. However, in late stages of steam operation on British Railways, all sorts of locomotives could be found on all sorts of trains.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.295044
Longitude
-2.97651