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66508

70008

It was 66304 & 73970 with 15001, 15107, 15213, 15305, 15303, 15332.

Nobody knew anything as the train was leaving Cheltenham Spa. A potential, though in the end unfounded, safety issue caused the train to be held, that was only discovered around 17:40, with the train back on the move around 17:53. If you consider that a lot of communication has to take place...

And it'd presumably have to have a shunter to run round in Chaddesden sidings, which can be quite busy around that time with ECS moves shunting off Etches Park.

That's 37901 & 37611

I think they were taken from V2s, though their history could be varied. I read somewhere they were taken from scrap line V2s at Swindon, but I've no idea how accurate this might be, the number of times people have but 2 and 2 together and ended up at 5 based on what they assume....

Despite being reliable they were non-standard and the work they were designed for was all but dead anyway, so they were sold into industries that just so happened to be on the decline or disposing of their internal rail networks about the same time as rail preservation had a boom in the late 70s...

Pretty standard these days. Apparently it means there's usually nowhere to hang yourself either.....

Original 5484 which it had until 1948.

Yeah, 66606 is on Avonmouth, and 7A80 was 66618 & 59004.

Minor derailment involving buffer lock at Peak Forest.

It's tender did though.

They look like Gresleys so would be before. Some buffets survived into the mid 70s, long enough to receive blue/grey.

It's a shame there was so much antipathy towards the newer locos towards the end of the steam era otherwise we'd no doubt have more photos of the unusually old locos next to the new ones. If they're together at all, one, or sometimes the other, is merely just visible in the background.