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» British Railways (more..)
» LMS Class 8F 2-8-0 (more..) |
» Briggs' Mill Dam, Healey Mills
» Healey Mills, Ossett, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom (more..)
» January 02, 1968 |
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» Unidentified (more..)
» Unknown |
» Steve Armitage (more..)
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| At the dawn of 1968 it was still possible to see an occasional steam locomotive on main line workings. The Calder Valley seemed a particularly privileged location to live because elsewhere in much of Britain it was already a memory. I think this image of a work-weary ex-LMS '8F' 2-8-0 heading westward along former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway metals into the dusk is rather poignant of those final months. Steam, which we thought would last forever, did not even see out the year.
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