borderreiver
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A Britannia and Scottish Fish
I have decided to take a path I do not often tread and post a screenshot of a BR Standard Class loco at work.
It is a paulhobbs payware item (built in I think) and a venerable 2.9 build. 70019 LIGHTNING finds herself in Scotland approaching Broughty Ferry with the Up 12:15 pm Fish from Aberdeen bound for London Kings Cross. Probably late 1961 or early 1962, since between September 1961 and June 1962 LIGHTNING was allocated to Carlisle Kingmoor shed. It appears that a working or perhaps two has taken her north to Aberdeen and Ferryhill shed has commandeered her to take the up fish, perhaps as far as Dundee but potentially even Edinburgh, where 7F power in the form of an A1 or A2 Pacific can be substituted for the brit. Haymarket will then be left with the job of getting her back to Kingmoor, unless they "slopey shoulder" it off on to Heaton or Gateshead shed at Newcastle Central. It is a shorter run across to Kingmoor from there but a Brit on the Newcastle to Carlisle will have spotters going mad to get her in their Ian Allen book. A Britannia north of York is rare enough but a sighting at Newcastle is the stuff of trainspotting legend, even in 1961.
I have decided to take a path I do not often tread and post a screenshot of a BR Standard Class loco at work.
It is a paulhobbs payware item (built in I think) and a venerable 2.9 build. 70019 LIGHTNING finds herself in Scotland approaching Broughty Ferry with the Up 12:15 pm Fish from Aberdeen bound for London Kings Cross. Probably late 1961 or early 1962, since between September 1961 and June 1962 LIGHTNING was allocated to Carlisle Kingmoor shed. It appears that a working or perhaps two has taken her north to Aberdeen and Ferryhill shed has commandeered her to take the up fish, perhaps as far as Dundee but potentially even Edinburgh, where 7F power in the form of an A1 or A2 Pacific can be substituted for the brit. Haymarket will then be left with the job of getting her back to Kingmoor, unless they "slopey shoulder" it off on to Heaton or Gateshead shed at Newcastle Central. It is a shorter run across to Kingmoor from there but a Brit on the Newcastle to Carlisle will have spotters going mad to get her in their Ian Allen book. A Britannia north of York is rare enough but a sighting at Newcastle is the stuff of trainspotting legend, even in 1961.
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