1965

NY4055 : Carlisle station, with Down WCML express 1965

taken 59 years ago, near to Carlisle, Cumbria, England

Carlisle station, with Down WCML express 1965
Carlisle station, with Down WCML express 1965
View SE from the main Up platform, on a thoroughly wet day. The 09.25 Crewe - Perth is leaving to run into Scotland on the ex-Caledonian section of the WCML, leaving it at Law Junction to go on via Motherwell and Coatbridge to Stirling and Perth (due 17.30). The locomotive is BR Standard Britannia Class 7P 4-6-2 No. 70003 'John Bunyan' (built 3/51, withdrawn 3/67): most passenger trains were Diesel-hauled by mid-1965.

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Photographer
Ben Brooksbank   (more nearby)
Date Taken
7 May 1965   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 2 December, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NY 401 555 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:53.4494N 2:56.0479W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NY 401 555
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Southeast (about 135 degrees)
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