Elsewhere

Some pictures of trains a long way away but destined for the line.

Waverley

 The Up 'Waverley' heads east near Wollaton behind 40411 and an unidentified Jubilee Class 4-6-0 sometime in the summer of 1958. Once it left Nottingham Midland it would turn south for Melton, Manton and Kettering on its way to St Pancras

T G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson

ready to depart St Pancras

Royal Scot class 4-6-0 No: 46115 Welsh Guardsman awaiting departure from St Pancras with the 17.25 service to Nottingham, 'The Robin Hood', in 1961. This train would have run via Kettering, Manton and Melton Mowbray then past Old Dalby to Nottingham. The Royal Scots were introduced onto the Midland Division of the LMR after being displaced from the WCML.

Colour-Rail

The Robin Hood 

It's January 1962, and Nottingham driver 'Nobby' Bush gets his train details from guard Bernard Allcock of Kentish Town whilst his fireman Ronald Dobson contemplates the journey ahead. In a few minutes D124 will depart from platform 6 at St Pancras into the winter's night. The Derby-based loco (17A) would haul 1D15, the Down 'Robin Hood' to Nottingham via Kettering and the Melton line.

Denis Dunn

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