Ready for departure, Liverpool Exchange Station ? 1968
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Ready for departure, Liverpool Exchange Station ? 1968
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 12 Apr 1968
Stanier 'Black 5' 4-6-0 45212 at the head of a through train to Glasgow. Exchange Station was the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Liverpool terminus but succumbed to rationalisation after the Beeching Report and closed in 1977. 45212 has survived into preservation; currently (2021) based on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, it is also available for main line operation.
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Image Location
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53.411403
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-2.993316