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Description: | 30th July 1966.
'Jubilee' class steam locomotive number 45581, named 'Bihar and Orissa', moves slowly 'tender-first' westwards through Leeds City station. That the engine is running backwards is revealed by the presence of an oil-lamp above one of the buffers, its position also confirming the locomotive is not pulling a train (known as running 'light-engine'). The yellow diagonal stripe running through the engine number on the cabside informs that the locomotive is barred from working South of Crewe (Cheshire) along the West Coast Main Line, because of clearance problems caused by the overhead electrification. The barrow in the foreground was one used by railway, rather than Post Office, staff.
45581 is seen here a few minutes after arriving on a passenger train from the west, and is now en route to the next duty, or possibly onto a depot for servicing. Depending on the 'diagram' (i.e. a planned series of journeys') being followed, this may not be the engine's home 'shed' of Farnley (Leeds). | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Leeds City Station locomotive train | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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