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LNER Flying Scotsman' pauses at Rugby Central with an up special excursion from Sheffield on 15th June 1963

LNER Flying Scotsman' pauses at Rugby Central with an up special excursion from Sheffield on 15th June 1963. Alan Hogg writes, 'thanks to the kindness of my mother I was on the Flying Scotsman excursion from Sheffield to London that day in June 1963. Being a very poor teenager I have no photos of it at all- it was difficult to scrape up the rail fare! On a very wet day in April 1965, Rugby was to be the furthest south I ever ventured on my own from Sheffield. The GC was dead on its feet by then and it was raining so hard I couldn't walk from Rugby Central to look at the new electrics on the newly electrified section from Nuneaton. It cost me one shilling and threepence return from Leicester Central to Rugby, that plus the seven shillings and sixpence from Sheffield to Leicester. Not sure if I would have had the threepence to get me on to Rugby Midland!

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