Wigan Album

This one did not elude me during my trainspotting days. Here it is, and in fabulous condition, leaving North Western station. Notice the BR maroon coaches soon to be replaced by the dull light blue and white inter city ones. To think that the end of steam was all but two years away makes this photograph even more poignant

Jarvo, your written English is spot on!

This would be the Glasgow-London Caledonian run. I think these coaches had the corridors with the sliding doors to each compartment.
Good photo Ron.

It would be more fitting if the steam train was in Maroon too, or the coaches Green. Why were some engines different colours even in BR days?
Colin these were all single compartments mk1 with bench seats.

Scenes of my childhood.

The coaches are all single corridor with sliding doors; single compartment coaches were never used on main line trains. Further down the train, there will a buffet car with open tables serving cans of Scottish beer and cheese and ham sandwiches. The corridor trains were elegant in their day. A wonderful photograph depicting a lost era...

Where is the nameplate?

By the summer of 1966, nameplates were becoming something of a collectors item; theft from steam locomotives was becoming the norm. Out of this class of locomotive, 55 in total, not many ran with their original nameplates by the summer of '66. During the next 18 months, this engine, and many of its sister engines, would be destined for the scrapyard. The collectors did not let the grass grow under their feet: opportunism came calling...First come, first served.

This loco would have had the name plates on the smoke-deflectors and not over the wheels.

You are right jarvo.I worked for BREL from1966 to 1972 and the things I saw scrapped was shameful.

Superb. I'll say it again. . . Superb!

SMOKE DEFLECTORS!!!! you mean BLINKERS<g> That's the cry that would go up on the station when an oncoming train was spotted "IT'S GOT BLINKERS ON"