LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Catesby Tunnel: gcct3

Ex-GCR 2-8-0 Class O4/1 No 63722 leaves Catesby Tunnel on a down goods train on 14th May 1949. Built as GCR No 1199 by Kitson & Company in September 1912, No 63722 was at grouping initially renumbered by the LNER as No 6199 later changed in 1946 to 3546 before being acquiring its British Railways number which it carried until September 1963 when it was withdrawn from 41J Langwith Junction shed.

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