LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Staverton Road: gcrsr25

LNER 4-6-0 Class B17/4 No 2847 'Helmingham Hall' passes over Staverton Road on a down express service in June 1939. Steve Banks writes. 'This looks like one of the cross-country trains and one of the alternating GWR train sets.' Built at Darlington in September 1935 No 2847 was renumbered No 1647 in 1946 by the LNER and renumbered after 1948 by British Railways as No 61647 which it retained until it was withdrawn from Cambridge shed in November 1959.

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