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BR Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_br1995

Another view of ex-LMS 2P 4-4-0 No 40646 on the Stephenson Locomotive Society special on 14th April 1962

Another view of ex-LMS 2P 4-4-0 No 40646 on the Stephenson Locomotive Society special on 14th April 1962. Officially to have been retired from Bescot shed on Saturday 12th May 1962, No 40646's retirement was delayed by one day to allow the Railway Correspondents & Travel Society's 'East Midlander Tour No 5' to Darlington go ahead. This tour departed Nottingham Victoria and was double-headed with No 40646 paired with ex-Southern Railways 4-4-0 'Schools class' No 30925 'Cheltenham'. The 1950s and 1960s was the age of the tours and specials as the Beaching cuts combined with the Modernisation plan saw branch lines being closed and classes of steam locomotives being decimated and made extinct.

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