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LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone
Rugby Central Station: gcrcs275
British Railways Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 No 92073, heads an
Annesley Runner past British Railways Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 No 73045 which
is waiting for the right of way at the head of a down local passenger service.
Built by Crewe works in February 1956, No 92073 was to remain in service until
November 1967 when it was withdrawn from Mollington Street shed in Birkenhead
to be scrapped by Campbells of Airdrie. The Standard Class 5 was built by Derby
works in November 1953 and it too had a short working life being withdrawn in
August 1967 from 9H Patricroft shed to be scrapped by J Cashmore's of Great
Bridge.
Tony Newman
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