I think we are sometime in the 1980s and we are
looking towards the Wilbraham Road bridge,
beyond which was the station and off to our right Adastral House.
Now someone out there will be much better
informed than I about the loco and what it is pulling.
My knowledge stops at being able to say it is
a British Rail locomotive, when we still had a nationalized railway company.
Originally I thought it might be the 1960s but those in the know have helped me push the date forward.
Location; Chorlton
Picture; from the Lloyd Collection
I have, if I remember rightly, a photo of the station somewhere on the computer. I must look it up.
ReplyDeleteThe loco is a Class 47 which would have been built between 1962 and 1968 - they were a successful design and fairly ubiquitous for the next 30 years, a few of them are still around today. The blue colour was brought in from 1965 onwards, and remained standard until the early 80s. It was after about 1986 that locos started being repainted in various colours.
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