An amazing photograph taken in the early 1970s showing BR blue-liveried Class 50 number 416 paused at platform one of Walsall station on a train of tanks, as a member of the station staff looks on. The train was 6L63 from Brunswick (Liverpool) to Bromford Bridge (Esso). The Bromford depot still receives trains of tanks from Eastleigh, usually a train of around twenty 30-tonne tanks (TTA's) per week.
Although the 50 Class 50s were based only 50 miles away at Crewe they were rarely seen or photographed in the West Midlands (but see the Newton Road blog archives for a couple of my shots of the class on Trent Valley diversions).
Photo copyright PP Newell.
2 comments:
Very nice!!! What a rare photo. An original condition 50 at Walsall.
Those old station buildings and canopy should have been kept and so should the centre road seen in the foreground.
A wonderful photo.
I agree with all your comments. How times change...
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