Steaming to the seaside
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Steaming to the seaside
Image: © David Pickersgill Taken: 15 Aug 2008
With an excited crowd in attendance, locomotive 60009 'Union of South Africa' arrives at Castleford with the 'Scarborough Flyer'. These excursions, which ran each Friday in August 2008, were the first steam trains to pick up passengers at Castleford for over 40 years.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.724435
Longitude
-1.354647