LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Braunston & Willoughby: gcrbw3

Ex-Great Central 4-4-2 Class C4/4 No 5262 passes through Braunston & Willoughby on an up express circa 1928. Built in April 1906 as Great Central No 262, No 5262 is seen carrying its original LNER number which was changed by the LNER in 1946 to No 2920. It was allocated No 62920 by British Railways but it was withdrawn from service in February 1948 from Boston shed to be scrapped before it carried it.

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