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Description: | 30th July 1966.
Arriving at Leeds City station from the west is engine no. 70014, named 'Iron Duke'. A member of the 'Britannia' class of express-passenger locomotives, this one was based at Carlisle (Kingmoor) depot. The white rectangle temporarily fastened high-up on the front of the engine carries a 4-digit code to identify the train's route and destination. This feature, together with the day being a Saturday, indicates the locomotive is hauling a holidaymakers' service. In railway terms it was a 'summer Saturday only' train (in this case returning, via Skipton, from the west coast). Visible just below the chimney, on the side of the engine, someone has hand-painted the engine's name where the recently removed brass-nameplate had been positioned (although not unique this unofficial practice was uncommon). Steam locomotives showed the type of train they were hauling by means of a head-lamp code: the oil-lamp above each buffer says this is an express-passenger train. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Leeds City Station engine train | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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