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Colour photos of Pre 1968 steam

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    Collection of over 185 colour photos of B.R. standard steam locos
    Starting here with
    70004 William Shakespeare in disgraceful condition but still with nameplates on a coal train at Kenton 27th April 1963
    https://tinyurl.com/2k75wmk3

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    6/188 = ARRIVES at Preston off Blackpool Line.

    7/188 = Faringdon Junction

    46 / 188 = Fort William ??

    49 / 188 = Battledown Flyover

    57 / 188 = Towyn

    60 / 188 = Shrewsbury

    86 / 188 = Nine Elms ?

    95 / 188 = Kettering shed

    109 / 188 = Climbing into Exeter Central

    126 / 188 = Eastleigh Depot [duplicates 125/188]

    127 / 188 = Southampton CENTRAL

    1289 / 188 = Eastleigh shed
     
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    Hi Neil,

    30/188 73043 Basingstoke Shed with Holy Ghost ruins in the background
    39/188 73089 I suspect Basingstoke with an air operated ground signal, 4 tracks and a GW building (Goods Shed) in the background.
    120/188 80133 Beaulieu Road.

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    Collection of 135 colour photos of former Southern Railway locos
    Including Bulleid Merchant Navy locos in blue livery
    35015 Rotterdam Lloyd in Blue livery with 'The Bournemouth Belle' headboard c1950's Branksome?;
    https://tinyurl.com/468uuwmc

    Full collection starts here with
    21C11 General Navigation
    https://tinyurl.com/53eftzza

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    Collection of 235 colour photos of GWR steam
    Starting here with 2 former Taff Vale railway class A 0-6-2T
    373 & 390 Cardiff East Dock, shortly before withdrawal in August 1957.
    https://tinyurl.com/mv7f6zk4

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    Collection of over 60 colour photos of Scottish steam
    Including some pregrouping locos during the LMS era
    14686 Urqurhart Castle Inverness with Welsh's Bridge signalbox behind the loco P. Drummond H.R. Castle class
    https://tinyurl.com/2p8f4j4h
    14765 Clan Stewart is at Oban, almost certainly around August 1939
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    14767 Clan MacKinnon is at Aviemore
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    14622 unknown location C.R. Pickersgill 191 class
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    Preserved ex GNoSR/LNER
    49 Gordon Highlander at Aberdeen Waterloo goods yard 13th June 1960
    https://tinyurl.com/2b62ecs7

    LMS/LNER &BR Std photos start here
    https://tinyurl.com/5f9zye5u

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    SOUTHERN REGION

    27 / 135 = Nine Elms

    30 / 135 = Weymouth ?

    82 // 135 = Geo Cohen scrapyard at Cransley nr Kettering

    MIDLAND REGION

    279 / 310 = Rose Grove
    280 / 310 = As above

    284 / 310 = Southport Chapel St on station pilot duties
    286 / 310 = As above

    LNER

    1/337 = Newcastle [note LNER EMU stock on Tyneside services

    2/337 = Bressingham as display item

    10/337 Fletton after leaving Peterborough North (River Nene bridge in background) heading south

    11/337 climbing up to North Queensferry on northern approach to Forth Bridge

    19 / 337 = Kings Cross

    32 / 337 = Peterborough North

    36 / 337 = Grantham

    48 / 337 = Kings Cross

    57 / 337 = Portobello curving onto Waverley route

    69 / 337 = Dundee

    72 / 337 = Dundee

    82 / 337 PRINCES St Gardens

    86 / 337 = Dundee
     
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    Hi Neil.

    92/135 32415 Brighton Depot seen from platform 2
    134/135 35028 Southampton Central tunnel mouth. The building in the background was the wartime control off and later extended as the railway telephoe exchange.

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