1954

TQ7323 : Last Train from Headcorn at Robertsbridge, Kent & East Sussex Railway, 1954

taken 70 years ago, near to Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England

Last Train from Headcorn at Robertsbridge, Kent & East Sussex Railway, 1954
Last Train from Headcorn at Robertsbridge, Kent & East Sussex Railway, 1954
After arriving at Robertsbridge for the very last time, the 08.50 from Headcorn has been reversed back into a siding by the engine which has brought it from Tenterden on a cold and wet January morning. (The Very Last Train went back to Headcorn at 16.50). The locomotive, allocated at the time to St Leonards (74E), is one of the celebrated and immortal ex-LB&SCR Stroudley 'Terriers', class A1X 0-6-0Ts: No. 32655 had been built as class A (A1 from 1905) No. 55 'Stepney' in 1875, successively becoming No. 655 from 1900, rebuilt as A1X in 191-13, No. B655 from Grouping in 1923, 2655 from 1930, 32655 after 1948 Nationalization, finally after withdrawal in 5/60 and purchase by the Bluebell Railway it was given back its original No. 55 - and its name. (See TQ7323 : Robertsbridge Station, with Up Hastings express and K&ESR train and my other images of these historic locomotives and of other engines on the Bluebell Railway).

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This photo is linked from: Articles: · Preserved steam locomotives of British Rail Automatic Clusters: · East Sussex [24] ·
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Photographer
Ben Brooksbank   (more nearby)
Date Taken
2 January 1954   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 17 February, 2016
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 733 236 [100m precision]
WGS84: 50:59.1579N 0:28.1302E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 733 236
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North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
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