LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Braunston & Willoughby: gcrbw6

Ex-Great Central 4-4-2 Class C4/4 No 5264 passes Willoughby cabin on an up express service circa 1928. Steve Banks writes, 'This is one of Leicester's Atlantics, hauling the 10am Manchester to Marylebone with the LMS brake composite from Halifax behind the tender. It had been attached at Penistone. This is an example of the early, 'LMS Period One' design with side doors'. Built in July 1904 as Great Central No 264 by Beyer Peacock the locomotive was renumbered by the LNER as No 5264 and then in 1946 as No 2903 which it carried until it was withdrawn from 40A Lincoln shed in June 1949. It would had been allocated by British Railways the running number 62903 if it had survived a little longer in service.

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