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I've been looking back at loco spotting notes of trains on the LNW main line up to the end of steam operation. I went round Willesden shed on Sunday 15th August 1965 and found 54 steam locos on shed, of 9 different classes. This included ten tank engines (mostly Fairburn tanks) that had recently...

A correction to my first post..... Sightings on 9/10/65 were both at Northwick Park, not Wembley - so definitely ALL the sightings were on 14.38 and 16.38 Nottingham trains. Sorry for the confusion. # # # A couple of years ago, I started a thread about the Marylebone to Nottingham trains in...

I grew up close to the GC main line in Harrow, and was a regular observer of the Marylebone to Nottingham steam hauled trains in the last year or two of operation (1965 and 1966). My recollection is that there was an up train via Harrow on the Hill at about 1100 that formed the 14.38 down...

The introduction of the Greater Anglia 745 / 755s prompted me to do some research into how the load is transferred between articulated coaches. I eventually found an excellent picture of the coupling between a pair of coaches, see below https://bahnbilder.ch/picture/9850 This shows that (a) the...