Re: ECJS Coaches for No 1 in 1938
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 2:20 pm
I didn't think I was imagining it:
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It's the same photograph as in the LNER Magazine, the caption of which states 'near Welwyn Garden City'. Above that photograph is one including the leading brake vehicle, but it's not sharp enough to read any running number.StevieG wrote:I have no special interest in the train or the loco or rolling stock, but what a fantastic and interesting record!
Thanks very much posting Mike.
I would observe that the photo's caption, placing it as at Knebworth, is in error as there have never been six tracks in that area : More likely that the image was captured somewhere between Hatfield and Welwyn Garden, where the railway did have that many tracks.
The 'preservation' was in 1938! The vehicles were restorations at the time, which might mean the same thing to a journalist.Wavey wrote:Interesting to see the 1938 article describe the carriages having been 'preserved' by the LNER! As far as I know none survived into preservation.
Illustrated History of ECJS gives two entries for van 10265447 wrote:I was browsing John Crawley's 'LNER in Focus' and discovered a short section on this train, illustrated by various photographs taken by Leslie Hanson at KX, Huntingdon and Peterborough, one of which shows one of the brake vans as number 102, built 1883 (by reference to Ken Hoole's Illustrated History of ECJS).
Mike,MikeTrice wrote:I didn't think I was imagining it: