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Jubilee Class 4-6-0 No: 45576 'Bombay' leans into the curve at Upper Broughton Station on Saturday September 5th, 1959 with the 10.30 am Bradford - St. Pancras express.
T G Hepburn, Rail Archive Stephenson |
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On 9th February 1957 Fairburn 2-6-4 tank No: 42185,
a regular on the line, powers
through the closed Upper Broughton station with the 10.45 am Kettering
- Nottingham local. Note the flat bottom rail- this was main line after all. Henry Priestley
courtesy Milepost 92½ |
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Four years later and steam had been replaced by diesel. Here's a
1-Co-Co-1 BR Sulzer Type 4 (later class 45) on the Up London service approaching the overbridge at Upper Broughton
on 7th April 1963. Note the four wheeled van behind the loco, ten or more
coaches and the boiler exhaust. J S Gilks
This is one of only two photographs which I have seen of a
diesel-hauled service train on the line |
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Here's a shot of one of the infamous
class 141 4-wheel railbuses running north past the site of Upper Broughton station in
December 1987. 141012 had been at RTC to have its engine and transmission
replaced in a bid to improve the performance of these truly awful trains.
Bob Osborne |
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The overhead line test train with MENTOR pictured at
Upper Brought in January 2007 Author |
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The first SSL train heads south near Upper Broughton
station site on 22nd June 2009 Author |
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172001 heads north through the former station area
on 9th April 2010 Author |
