19810110_ZD_GerardFletcher
D5611 Barford
This is one of my all time favourite Brush Type 2 shots and I am indebted to Chris Burton for giving me permission to share it with you., 1B31 09.10 Skegness - King's Cross which ran on Saturdays only from 18th June to 3rd September is whisked past milepost 50 at Barford, just south of St. Neots behind D5611 on July 23rd 1966. , The loco was one of Finsbury Park's faithfuls arriving there new in 1960 and not moving depot until May 1979 by which time it had become 31188. This was yet another 31 to undergo a short life in preservation, deemed surplus to requirements at the Wensleydale Railway it was scrapped in 2008. Here it is just fresh off a Doncaster Works general overhaul where it had it received a new English Electric power unit to replace its Mirrlees engine in April 1966., 1B31 was the first of a dozen loco hauled trains diagrammed to depart from Skegness on Summer Saturdays in 1966, there being a second London departure at 11.56 code 1B36. The other destinations for returning holidaymakers were in order of departure : Manchester Piccadilly, Nottingham Midland, Doncaster, Sheffield Midland, Leicester London Road, Birmingham New Street, Chesterfield, Westhouses, Leeds & Bradford, and Derby Midland. In addition there were three loco hauled dated trains from Mablethorpe. Most of these trains would have been powered by Brush or BR Sulzer Type 2s and like 1B31 would have included a variety of cinderella stock, speaking of which, isn't that third coach a Thompson or Gresley vehicle ? Somebody more familiar with coaching stock will I'm sure let us know.
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