LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Staverton Road: gcrsr28

LNER 4-6-0 Class B17/4 No 2860 'Hull City' throws out a lot of unburnt coal as it passes Staverton Road signal cabin in 1946 on a Marylebone to Leicester stopping train. Steve Banks writes, 'A classic use of an Ordinary Passenger train heading Non Passenger Coaching Stock. In this case added behind the tender are: a GWR Siphon, a horse box that I cannot identify, and an LNER 4w passenger brake van.' In the immediate post war period quality coal was reserved only for the more prestigious workings so the smoke may in fact reflect the use of 'slack' which was basically pieces of gravel sized coal. Built at Darlington in June 1936 No 2860 was renumbered by the LNER in 1946 as No 1660 and again as No 61660 by British Railways post 1948 which it carried until June 1960 when it was withdrawn from March shed.

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